This is something new that I only just discovered last night so I will still have to play around with it myself to figure out all the details.
It’s called picture style and it is hidden inside your menu of the SLR. It may be on some point and shoots too, just dig around inside your menu.
On my Canon XTi, I press the menu button, then the side arrow button which takes me to the 2nd menu. Scroll down to picture style. My camera offers these options: landscape, portrait, neutral, faithful and monochrome.
You can further adjust each of these pre-set styles by pressing the jump button.
The main thing I realized last night while messing around with this setting is that mine has been on landscape and never been off of it, maybe since I bought the camera. And, when I take pictures inside, I often have a problem with skin looking too saturated or too red.
Changing my style setting to neutral or faithful really helped that.
I’ll show you.
Here’s what I usually get with an indoor shot and no flash with the style set on Landscape. I often edit these photos to remove some of the redness.
But with that simple change I got these photos:
Portrait
Faithful
Neutral
Monochrome
Then I wondered if I would really notice a difference outside not using the landscape style setting.
You may be able to tell a richer, more vivid color in the landscape style.
It is more noticeable in this next photo set.
This is just one more feature you can adjust to make a difference in your photos before editing. Dig around in your menu. See if you can change the picture style too.
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