Introduction
Picture Style Editor (hereinafter, "PSE") is software that allows you to edit
Picture Style to your unique image characteristics and save them as
original Picture Style files.
What is a Picture Style file?
A Picture Style file (extension ".PF2") is an extended function of a
Picture Style. It differs from the 6 preset Picture Styles (Standard,
Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome) and
provides image characteristics that are effective in a very limited
number of scenes.
Main Features of PSE
With PSE, you can use the functions below to edit Picture Style to
your unique image characteristics and save them as original Picture
Style files (extension ".PF2").
Select a Picture Style to be used as a basis for your images
Set the [Color tone], [Color saturation], [Contrast] and [Sharpness]
Make minute adjustments to a specific color
Adjust the brightness and contrast (gamma characteristic)
In addition, you can register the original Picture Style files you have
saved to a camera that has Picture Style settings and apply them to
shot images. You can also use Digital Photo Professional or RAW
Image Task to apply them to RAW images.
Color management
Use PSE in a computer environment with color management.
Also, set the profile of the monitor you are using and the color space
of the sample image to be used to perform the adjustments, etc. in
the preferences window (p.16).
System Requirements
OS
Mac OS X 10.3 to 10.4
Computer
Macintosh with one of the above OS installed
PowerPC G3 400MHz or higher, G4, G5 or
CPU
Intel processor
RAM
Minimum 512MB
Resolution: 1024 × 768 or more
Display
Colors: Thousands or more
This software program is not compatible with UFS (UNIX File System)
formatted disks.
PSE also runs comfortably on Intel-based Macintosh since it is a
Universal application.
Images for Adjustment
With PSE, you can use RAW images from the following camera models
as sample images for adjustment and save them as original Picture
Style files.
EOS 40D
Introduction
Create Picture
Style Files
Reference
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