Portrait picture style from Canon DSLRs in Apple Photos app?

[sebalvarez]

Those who have Canon DSLRs know that it has a few color styles to choose from, like Portrait, Landscape, Faithful, Neutral, etc. While the "Portrait" style is not very realistic, I always liked it. Problem is, most image cataloguing apps don't come prepared to apply Canon picture styles, so they don't display them. I think Adobe Lightroom Classic can, but I hate renting software as much as I hate Adobe, so that's not an option for me.

Other programs are nowhere near as good as Lightroom, unfortunately. ON1 Photo RAW has nice features but it's horribly slow, on both my Mac Studio M1 Ultra and my PC that I just built with an i9 14900 KF and Samsung NVMe drives, so it's just poorly coded. There are some alternatives, some free, some paid, but they all seem rather slow.

Then there is Canon's own Digital Photo Professional 4. I will never understand how Canon can make such excellent cameras but such godawful software. Slow as hell, unintuitive, poorly designed, just terrible. It's the only software that loads the picture style used in the photo, but it's just awful to use, and using it to browse hundreds of photos to select some of them, forget about it.

Which one is not slow? The Photos app that comes with macOS. Not just with the default library, but creating a new library to have just the DSLR photos. It's super fast. Browsing, editing image parameters, anything you do. If I want to go photo by photo really fast to select favorites, I can do it really fast.

The only disadvantage of using Photos is that there's no way to load picture styles. However, in recent years this app went from being a very end consumer app to at least semi-pro level, with several adjustments added to it that could make it possible to at least replicate the Portrait style in Canon DSLRs. Unfortunately it still can't load LUTs, which would solve that problem, but I was wondering if anyone found a way to replicate as close as possible that picture style. Maybe with the Selective Color tab?

 

[AlaskaMoose]

I don't know what to say other than the following: regardless of the picture style I have chosen, the camera settings and the lens I am using allow me to create the style I want. Once the photo is taken, the rest is done with the editing.

While DPP may be cumbersome and even slow, it is quite a powerful application. My favorite photo editing application is DXO's Photo Lab 8 and the NIK Software Bundle. If you are familiar with PhotoShop and "layers," Affinity Photo may be a good choice, too. One1 Photo Raw is fine too, specially if you find AI more to your liking, although Photo Lab 8 also includes AI editing, plus a very powerful digital noise removal tool.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Slow as hell, unintuitive, poorly designed, just terrible. It's the only software that loads the picture style used in the photo, but it's just awful to use, and using it to browse hundreds of photos to select some of them, forget about it.

I agree it’s slow to apply some settings, but for selecting and culling it’s by no means slow if you use the proper section. It’s called ‘quick check’. You can zoom through photos here with the same speed as most other apps.

Once you have selected your photos, you could export them as is, baking in the camera settings to the photo, and editing with what ever app you like to use.

(Whilst your there you could apply a few other unique general settings like DLO etc, but that is where things get a little slow - although you can batch edit and have a coffee)

Aside from Lightroom or ACR (which have a fairly good approximation), that’s the only way of getting Canons picture styles.

 

[sebalvarez]

While DPP may be cumbersome and even slow, it is quite a powerful application.

DPP is absolute garbage. It's barely OK to edit each photo, but it's created by people that don't know the first thing about UI/UX and software optimization. It's terrible in both macOS and Windows, in pretty fast machines. I can't even use it to browse photos from a shoot like I can with most cataloguing apps, which is having the current photo taking up most of the screen space so I can see if it's good enough to make the selection.

If you are familiar with PhotoShop and "layers," Affinity Photo may be a good choice, too.

Sorry, I'm confused as to why you put layers between quotes. Affinity Photo is an excellent program, as is the rest of the Affinity Suite, but it's not a photo catalog program, in the same way Photoshop is not and Lightroom is. Very different usage scenarios. I wish Serif launched a photo catalog software, in fact I sent them an email not long ago trying to convince of that. But it's not to view a shoot with about 200 photos and pick and choose, it's not made for that.

One1 Photo Raw is fine too, specially if you find AI more to your liking

I bought ON1 Photo RAW in January because they had a sale for 50% off, and I still regret. It's a piece of junk software. If you have a PC with an i9 14900 KF, 192 GB of RAM and your internal drives are Samsung 990 NVMe, any software should be insanely fast. Yet ON1 etc is such a piece of garbage that everything is slow, even after deactivating all the stupid AI automatic stuff, and letting the catalog build overnight and browsing it the next day. Going photo by photo pressing the right key and pressing 4 or 5 to assign a 4 or 5 star rating to make a selection of the best, once you press the right key about 10-15 times it will freeze for several seconds. And if you press 5 to assign the rating, it also freezes for several seconds. Using it, I feel like my PC is from 1995. It's a horrible, sluggish, poorly coded program.

But my question was if anyone had figured out how to get as close as possible to the Portrait picture style in macOS Photos.

 

[cupcakes2000]

DPP is absolute garbage.

I am afraid this is incorrect. It’s definitely stated often by those that do not know how to use it, or haven’t particularly tried, but under no circumstances is it garbage. It’s powerful - you just need to learn it. It’s slow for some functions which is its major drawback.

 

[cupcakes2000]

I can't even use it to browse photos from a shoot like I can with most cataloguing apps

Yes you can, and very easily, therefore proving the fact you don’t know how to use it yet you’re deriding it as ‘garbage’.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Portrait picture style in macOS Photos.

You can edit the photo manually to get a close approximation based on each photo. For a one click solution, as stated before, it’s not possible. DPP is the only way to have it accurate, LR/ACR is a close approximation.