Canon’s Picture Style function brings together the settings for image processing parameters (previously tone curve, sharpness and contrast) and colour matrix settings (previously standard, portrait, high and low saturation and Adobe RGB). It combines these into one easy-to-use point of access for the control of sharpness, contrast, colour tone and saturation. In the past, some users of the EOS-1D range had difficulty understanding the effect of the range of different settings on final image characteristics.
Also, some thought that their images looked soft because they did not recognize that Canon’s default setting for EOS-1 series digital cameras deliberately applies no sharpening. Picture Style makes it simple for users to get optimum image quality by making a selection – more or less like selecting a particular film type in the past on the basis of colour characteristics, contrast and sharpness.