Canon PF3 Picture Style Editor

Design a custom look with live photo feedback, then take away the settings to dial into a User Defined slot on your camera, the tone curve and 6-axis values to finish in Canon's free Picture Style Editor, or a .cube LUT.

1. Base & Metadata

Camera settings

Style Name

Base Picture Style

Tone & Color Sliders (-4 to +4)

Contrast+1

Saturation+2

Color Tone-1

Canon Unsharp Mask Controls

Strength (0–7)4

Fineness (1–5)2

Threshold (1–5)2

RGB Tone Curve Adjustments

Shadows (x:64)58

Midtones (x:128)132

Highlights (x:192)202

Canon 6-Axis Selective Color Tuning

red Hue Shift-4°

red Saturation+2

red Lightness+1

Live Look Output

Base: Standard

Your photo

A simulation of these settings on a JPEG, not a photo from a Canon camera.

Photo of Liu Shishi by Alessia807 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

1. On your camera, no file needed

MENU → Picture Style → User Def. 1, 2 or 3 → Detail set:

Picture Style: Standard
Sharpness: Strength 4 · Fineness 2 · Threshold 2
Contrast: +1
Saturation: +2
Color tone: -1

On bodies with a single Sharpness setting (0–7), use the Strength value.

2. Tone curve and colours, in Picture Style Editor

The camera menu has no tone curve or per-colour settings. Canon's free Picture Style Editor does: open a RAW file, choose Standard, use these as a starting point, then save a .pf3 and register it with EOS Utility.

Tone curve: 64 → 58, 128 → 132, 192 → 202
Red: hue -4°, saturation +2, luminosity +1
Yellow: hue -6°, saturation +3, luminosity +1
Green: hue +2°, saturation -1, luminosity 0
Blue: hue 0°, saturation +1, luminosity -1

The .cube carries the whole look for Lightroom, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve or a monitor, but a Canon camera can't load it as a Picture Style. Canon's .pf2/.pf3 files are encrypted, so this site can't write one; ready-made files are in the Picture Style Library.