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I shoot JPEG and RAW and I have my camera (EOS 1D Mk II) set-up to apply some adjustments to the JPEG image. They are: Pictuyre style Standard, Sharpness 7, Contrast +1, Saturation +1, Colour tone 0, colour space Adobe RGB.
I'm very happy with the output of the camera's JPEG and rarely have to adjust it in photoshop before sending to clients. However, the RAW is a different story. I cannot match the quality of the Canon in-camera rendered JPEG with the RAW file in Apeture. The results from Aperture are woeful.
Here is an example. The image on the left is the JPEG right out of the camera, the image on the right is the un-tocuhed RAW. I have spent hours in Aperture tweeking setting to try and match the JPEG but I keep ending up with a far inferior image. Can anyone suggest how I can go about making the adjustments in Aperture so that my RAW files match the JPEG quality? I'd like to be able to have a pre-set that I can save into Aperture so that I can shoot only RAW but get the image quality that the Canon Camera JPEG produces.
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Thanks for the reply Carl. I've tried those adjustments many times, but I just can't seem to get it how I want it, and the JPEG always looks so much better. The sharpness is something I cannot get anywhere near as good in Aperture.
Also, I'm looking for a pre-set here, so I don't want to adjust the image specifically for this shot, I want to save the pre-set that gets closest to the Canon settings then I will use that as the basis for all my RAW imports in the future.
What I don't understand, or more specifically, don't know how to replicate, is why I cannot match exactly, or near as **** it, what the Canon camera is doing. Obviously the camera is performing a RAW conversion, and it's using the style that I have pre-set. Surely Aperture, or any other RAW conversion solution, must be able to process the image in a similar way to achieve a similar result?
Right now my work-flow with JPEGs is very fast, but if I was to use my RAW files it seems I'm adjusting every single image with the tiniest details.
Like I said, generally I'm happy with the Camera JPEG 99% of the time, so a RAW processing pre-set to match that would mean I'd be happy with 99% of my RAWs. Perhaps I should upload these images to Apple's Aperture team and see if they can find a suitable conversion pre-set?

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