Creative Assist or Creative Filters?

Both let you get ‘creative’ during playback, but what is the difference?

You might have another ‘Creative’ option available in your camera’s Playback menu: Creative Assist. While Creative Filters enable you to apply e€ects to images and video clips, Creative Assist o€ers a touchscreenfriendly way of processing RAWS in-camera. Creative Filters are focused on creating impact with fun eects, while Creative Assist is more about applying Instagram-style lters. Advanced EOS cameras such as the EOS R6 Mark II and EOS 90D oer both RAW image processing and Creative Assist. The dierence is that RAW image processing gives you control over speci c camera settings, while Creative Assist is more visual and presents you with a range of eects to apply to the image.

With Creative Assist, for example, you can choose a look from a range of presets such as Vivid or Soft, as well as adjusting brightness, colour tone and other eects. With RAW image processing, you choose a Picture Style and you’re able to change sharpness, contrast and other parameters as you would when shooting. Creative Assist is a good option when you don’t want to get too bogged down – useful if you just want to make a quick and dirty edit, as you perhaps would using the camera on your smartphone. Neither Creative Assist or RAW image processing will give you the control you have over RAW images that you get when using software on computers.