Setting Up Your DPP

DPP BASIC SETTING FOR WINDOW PC

It’s initial to know your software setting before starting to use your DPP to correct or apply adjustment to your photo. It doesn’t matter what kind of software we use either its DPP, Photoshop or other third party photo editing software, setting the software preferences or setup or profile is the first thing what you should start with if you want to get the right result. Look it at this way, if you want to bake a cake, you have to know the right ingredient, the temperature, the amount of water and etc. Doing without setting up the right ingredient and tools would get you halfway with unfinished product.

Setting up your the DPP will help you to get more accurate colour result in editing and great printing results from your home printer. As one of the major problem with printing a photo is colour produce from the printed is not the same as we see in the monitor. This simple setup would help to get better result but it depends also on your PC and monitor type too. This tutorial is done on a ACER monitor. So please check with your monitor vendor the colour preset that their are using. Note that there have been tons type of technology on colour rendering nowadays.

So lets start by opening the DPP and head to the “Tools” bar and click on the “Preferences...” or by hitting the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+K”.

 

A float window will come out like below. 

 

Open up the “General Settings” and check if the all the checkbox are the same as the picture above. If you are on a slow PC, you can save time viewing RAW image by selecting the High speed checkbox under the VIEWING AND SAVING RAW IMAGES. Note that this would affect your end photo if you don’t convert the photo to JPEG.

 

Lets move to the View Setting panel. I would recommend to leave this as default. The only thing that i changed here is the RAW AND JPEG setting which i select the checkbox of the Display only CR2 images for CR2 and JPEG files Of The Same Name.

 

That also goes to the Tool Palette panel. Leave the setting default and only check the red line box above is the same setup or not.

 

On the Color Management panel is kinda optional. Canon by default would set the WORK COLOR SPACE to SRGB. In my case, at some point i have to transfer the photo to photoshop for extra editing so i set the Color Work Space to Adobe RGB. So i wont need to set the color to Adobe RGB when i transfer to Photoshop and that save me a lot of time. That goes also to my Display setting for the DPP which i also change to Adobe RGB.

 

If you are curious what type of other RGBs that are available. Just click on the Browse button and take a look around.

Last but not least is the printing settings, this is a bit optional. It would be easier if connected to a Canon Printer. It would detect the printer and apply the best setting recommend by the software. Other brand printer would acquire the printer software itself either it can automatically set the best setting if not then you have to manual set it up. This Tutorial is base on my experiment and experience using the DPP software. If you have a better idea or you have something to share, you can post a comment or sent me an email. Thanks.