Picture styles can change he appearance of a JPEG image. There are different effects such as Standard which is normal, Contrast which brings out the textures and darker colours, Sepia which is a faded brown colour, Sauration is the intensity of the colours in the image and Black and White which may also be known as monochrome.
White Balance is the colour temperture, it is measured in Kelvin, There are numerous different options for the white balance which is found when you click the WB button. Auto White balance, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Tungsten, Flourescent and flash. Here is an image which shows all the options you can get, some of the effects can either give a cold feel to the image or a warmer feel. Daylight and shade tends to give a warm temperature feel to the photograph. The best way to thinking about setting the camera is to set the camera to what you see from the light.
Raw VS Jpeg
What is JPEG? - JPEG is a standard format and is useable with almost anything. JPEG is a compresssedfile, which saves space but lacks quality due to to it missing pixels. JPEG can be manipulated, but each time you save it and edit it it loses the quality as it loses pixels.
What is RAW? - Raw is a forma that can only be used by certain software as it requires a codec. Raw is a format which is oposite to JPEG, Raw is an uncompressed file and can be processed. It contains all the information recorded when the picture gets taken, and it allows for changes such as picture style and white balance to be made. Raw files can be up to 2-6 times larger than JPEG. There are advantages to shooting in Raw, such as you have great control over the exposure when shooting. Also, if the image is over of under exposed when you capture it you can restore it when it opens in photoshop.
The images above show picture styles i used on my camera. The first 3 images are just a basic black and white effect. the last image is an effect called retro photo, which gave quite a noisy look to the image.
1) Daylight
2) Shade
3) Cloudy
4) Incandescent
The images above show different white balance styles on the same subject matter.
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