DPP & Canon Picture styles

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I have used DPP quite a lot recently and am reasonably OK with Picture styles and shooting in RAW, but I am still struggling to understand some of the settings.
For example, the Canon website gives a very useful summary of Picture styles - "Landscape" is described as "High" sharpness (no 4), "high" Contrast and "High" saturation - blue green.
What I can't quite grasp is when I then take a photo on my 450D (shooting RAW and with "Landscape" picture style), and I open the photo in DPP, on the RAW "tab", the sharpness slider shows 4, but contrast and saturation sliders are at 0!
Given that "landscape" is a high contrast setting, should I not be seeing the Contrast slider default to say 1 or 2?
Am I missing something here or just not undestanding the finer points of Picture styles?
Thanks for any help.
 
I think they mean the blue-green contrast values are boosted within the picture style, it doesn't mean the contrast of the whole image will be 'on 1 or 2', this would affect all colours.

It's simple enough to change anyway.
 
I thought the idea of RAW was it did not tarnish the image with presets but left it to you to adjust

I've therefore never gone near picture styles,
so I just had a play with dpp and an otherwise unedited raw image changes with the different picture style selected on the edit tool, even when sliders do not move. Also the sliders appear to change functionality slightly, definately for the monochrome style!

now I'm confused
 
Wookie said:
I thought the idea of RAW was it did not tarnish the image with presets but left it to you to adjust

I've therefore never gone near picture styles,
so I just had a play with dpp and an otherwise unedited raw image changes with the different picture style selected on the edit tool, even when sliders do not move. Also the sliders appear to change functionality slightly, definately for the monochrome style!

now I'm confused
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The image files themselves are not 'tarnished' - the picture style is simply a value held in the file that DPP (and only DPP) interprets and it gets applied by default when opened, just like the sharpening and contrast settings applied in camera. There is nothing stopping you changing it to anything else.

If you open the file in ACR or any other raw converter it gets ignored.
 
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