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Those colour profiles aim to provide an alternative to the Adobe Standard Profile for Lightroom and Photoshop by improving skin and colour rendition. I already reviewed the OM-D E-M5 versions and a couple of weeks ago, they kindly sent me the newly released version for the X100s. Well, here comes the first option of this article, and I am talking about the Huelight Color Fidelity camera profiles. If you like using Lightroom as I do but want better colour rendering, what are the options, aside from spending hours adjusting the different settings in hope of matching the JPG colours? If you pass your mouse over top, the Adobe Standard Camera profile render will appear. See the example below: what you see is a the JPG on-camera taken with the Astia Film Simulation mode.

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But what happens is that when I import my RAF files (Fuji RAW format), the software applies a default Adobe Standard Camera Profile that changes the colours I see on my X100s LCD screen and in my JPG version.

I open Photoshop only if I have to do heavy post-processing that involves layers and changing an element in the actual scene. I have always used Lightroom to catalogue and edit my photographs as it is fast, reliable and gets better with every major update.

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My daily post-processing involves Adobe Lightroom 5 on a 2009 Mac Book Pro.

There are many RAW developer software programs out there.

Colours can also vary when printing, but since I am not an expert in this field, I will skip it.

Colours can vary depending on the calibration of your computer monitor, or if you are seeing the images on a tablet or smartphone.

Colours can be subjective: a particular red tone that I love in my sunset beach picture may look unappealing to you.

It is not something that you will see right away with your naked eye, but the more your retouch it, the more you reduce its quality.įor me, the perfect solution would be either for Fujifilm to release official camera profiles for software such as Adobe Lightroom, or as a plan B, to implement the possibility to shoot in TIFF format to have the option of a less compressed file than JPGs.īut back in the real world, it is either JPG or RAW files, so let’s see which options are available to us.īefore proceeding further, there are a couple of things which I want to make clear: If you want to open the shadows or adjust highlights, you are very limited with JPGs as it is a compressed format and every time you save it, you lose quality.

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X100S, 1/1100, f/ 5.6, ISO 800 – Velviaīut sometime we need that extra quality that a less compressed file like the RAW format can give us, without forgetting the massive flexibility you get by post-processing your pictures. Sometimes we are too obsessed with retouching and we forget that if the picture comes out perfectly from the camera, the resulting JPG will be more than fine. I admit that the more I use the X100s, the more I trust its JPG engine. If you want to work with RAW files as I do, things get a little more complicated because it is not easy to find a software that can reproduce these colours accurately enough. Now, a limitation to this is that to fully appreciate these colours, you will have to rely solely on JPGs on-camera. My favourites are Astia and Velvia, especially for the warm tones: they render yellow and orange in a very unique way. One thing I really love about the Fuji’s X-Trans sensor is the colour reproduction of their various film simulation modes.

I like photographs whose colours remind me of that. Beautiful colours in a photograph are the aspect that will set me in motion more than anything else, probably because I have always appreciated art and paintings. The most important thing for me when it comes to pure image quality is colour. I am not usually bothered by noise in my pictures (within reasonable limits), and I won’t hesitate to raise my ISO if necessary. But as there are many digital technology lovers out there, sometime the geek inside me takes the lead! (Try saying that five times fast!) If you have already read some of my articles such as why I am using the E-M5 for work or our E-P5/X100s unconventional ISO comparison, the truth is that I mostly care about functionality and the actual photographs produced by the camera.

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I am not usually the pixel-peeping kind of photographer, nor am I obsessed with bokeh or dynamic range or tridimensional full frame perception. Update: the Fuji Film Simulation profiles are now included with Adobe Camera Raw 8.4.