Performing Advanced Editing

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Performing Advanced Editing

This section explains how to use the advanced adjustment function on the tool palette in the edit window. Adjustments made using the high-level functions of the [RAW] and [RGB] tool palettes, as well as the functions of the [NR/ALO] and [Lens] tool palettes are explained in this section.

  1. Double-click a thumbnail image in the main window.

  2. Select the [View] menu → [Tool palette].

    • The tool palette appears.

  3. Select the [RAW] tab sheet on the tool palette, and edit the image.

    Adjusting White Balance with Color Temperature
    Tuning White Balance with Color Wheel
    Adjusting Dynamic Range
    Adjusting Brightness of Shadows/Highlights
    Using a Picture Style File

  4. Select the [RGB] tab sheet on the tool palette, and edit the image.


    Tone Curve Adjustment

  5. Select the [NR/ALO] or [Lens] tab sheet on the tool palette, and edit the image.


    Reducing Noise


    Correcting Lens Aberration


By clicking the [Tool] button in the toolbar on the main window, the same tool palette that appears in the edit window is displayed and you can edit images.

Using the tool palette

We recommend that as a general principle you edit RAW images using the [RAW] tool palette. However, where the adjustment width with the [RAW] tool palette is not wide enough and you wish to use the special functions in the [RGB] tool palette, we recommend that you adjust your images at the necessary lowest limit with the [RGB] tool palette after having completed basic adjustment with the [RAW] tool palette. Use the adjustment function of the [NR/ALO] and [Lens] tool palettes when applying the Auto Lighting Optimizer, reducing noise or correcting aberration after you have made any required adjustments with the [RAW] and [RGB] tool palettes.

Adjusting White Balance with Color Temperature

White balance can be adjusted by setting a numerical value for color temperature.

  1. Select [Color temperature] from the [White balance adjustment] list box.

  2. Set the color temperature.

    • Drag the slider left or right to adjust the color temperature.


The adjustment range is 2500 to 10000K (in 100K units).

Tuning White Balance with Color Wheel

White balance can be tuned by moving a cursor in the color direction shown in the color wheel.

  1. Click the [Tune] button.

  2. Tune by dragging a point.

    • You can also fine-tune your adjustment by directly entering the adjustment values.


  • To register adjustment results as personal white balance, select a setting other than [ ( )] from the [White balance adjustment] list box, and then tune with the color wheel. You cannot register the adjustment results as personal white balance when you have selected [ ( )] from the list box and have done any tuning.

  • You cannot change or adjust white balance with multiple-exposure RAW images created on the camera.


The adjustment range of color tone is 0 to 359 (1 unit in numerical value input), and the adjustment range of color saturation is 0 to 255 (1 unit in numerical value input).

Adjusting Dynamic Range

The dynamic range (width of gradation expression) from dark points to bright points in an image can be adjusted. The more the shadow point is towards the right, the more the gradation of dark points in the image disappears and the image becomes darker. The more the highlight point is towards the left, the more the gradation of bright points in the image disappears and the image becomes brighter. The narrower the space between shadow point and highlight point becomes, the narrower the gradation from bright points to dark points of an image becomes.

  1. Adjust an image while viewing it.

    • When you move the cursor to the left edge of the graph, the cursor [ ] changes to [ ]. Drag the slider right to adjust the shadow point.

    • When you move the cursor to the right edge of the graph, the cursor [ ] changes to [ ]. Drag the slider left to adjust the highlight point.

    • The horizontal axis shows the input level and the vertical axis shows the output level.

Adjusting Brightness of Shadows/Highlights

You can adjust the brightness of shadows and highlights in an image. By adjusting shadows and highlights in an image with a restricted brightness, you can reduce the effects of clipping in shadows and highlights.

  1. Adjust an image while viewing it.

    • Drag the slider left or right to adjust the tone curve in 11 steps.

Using a Picture Style File

A Picture Style file is an extended function of a Picture Style. With DPP, you can apply to RAW images Picture Style files that you have downloaded from Canon's web site effective for various scenes or Picture Style files created with "Picture Style Editor". When using a Picture Style file, save it to your computer beforehand.

  1. Display the image to which the Picture Style file is to be applied in the edit window.

  2. Select the [RAW] tab sheet in the tool palette, and click the [Browse] button.

    • The [Open] dialog box appears.

  3. Select a Picture Style file saved on your computer, and click the [Open] button.

    • The Picture Style file you selected is applied to an image.

    • To apply a different Picture Style file, follow the procedure from step 2 again.


The Picture Style files that you can apply to the camera are files with the ".PF2" or ".PF3" extension only. Furthermore, you cannot apply Picture Style files with the extension ".PSE" to an image; however if such a file is registered in the camera and the image is shot, the image will display correctly.



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