Originally posted by severalsnakes
Jim, I thought the "As Shot" option would be what retrieved that custom image metadata and saved me from myself as far as editing the "cross processing" back into the images, but, alas. That's either not the answer or I'm doing something wrong. I can click "as shot" and it shows me the image exactly as it was captured (i.e. - how it actually appeared), and the auto/daylight/tungsten settings will all make standardized adjustments to "correct" the image accordingly. I still have not found a "randomizer"... However, the web search that Tuggie suggested did get me where I wanted to go. Now when I edit the DNG images in PSE, I just jack up the colors in the Levels adjustment and voila! Instant wacky colors. It does take the surprise out of it, though...
Maybe 'As Shot' in ACR only preserves the camera's white balance setting. I'll have to do some experimentation.
Late this past summer I was at Navy Pier in Chicago taking shots during the Tall Ships Festival. I was shooting RAW+. I don't chimp every shot I take, but when I did, I discovered that I had accidentally bumped the white balance from AWB to tungsten. The blue water and sky sure were pretty, but the blue cast on everything else was not! My wife thought I had lost all those shots, but I told her no.
When I opened the DNG version of one of those shots (and I just repeated the experiment) in PSE11, the image was first loaded in ACR 'As Shot'. Meaning the image was blue. The RAW (DNG) file was of course easily fixed. Since I rarely use any in-camera jpeg customization other than Natural and AWB, I had hoped ALL customization was embedded in the thumbnail inside the DNG file.
While I prefer to do all my customization in PP, now you've piqued my interest to check this topic out in more depth - as soon as I can find some spare time.