Nikon 25420 Creating Retouched Copies The Retouch Menu, Description Lighting, Retouching Copies

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Creating Retouched Copies: The Retouch Menu

The options in the retouch menu are used to create trimmed, resized, or retouched copies of the photographs on the memory card. The following options are available (options displayed may differ if My menu is selected for the CSM/Setup menu option in the setup menu; 80). See “Using Camera Menus” ( 63) for more information on using the menus.

Description

D-lighting*	Brighten dark or back-lit subjects or produce effects similar to the flash.	90
Red-eye correction*	Correct “red-eye” caused by the flash.	91
Trim	Create cropped copies of existing photographs.	91
Monochrome*	Copy pictures in black-and-white, sepia, or cyanotype.	92
Filter effects*	Create copies with color filter effects.	92
Small picture	Create small copies of existing photographs.	92–93
Image overlay	Combine two RAW photographs into a single image.	94–95

* Not available with photographs taken with Black-and-whiteselected for Optimize image.

Except in the case of Image overlay, the photographs to be retouched can be selected in full-frame playback or from the retouch menu. In full-frame playback:

1

Display photo in full-frame playback ( 20, 50).

2

Display retouch menu.

3

Highlight menu item. *

4

Display retouch options. †

* Image overlay is not available during full-frame playback.

†If sub-menu is displayed, repeat Steps 2–3 to select options from sub-menu. To exit to full-frame playback without creating modified copy, press button.

Retouching Copies

With the exception of images created using Small picture, the options in the retouch menu can be applied to existing copies, although this may result in loss of quality. Each retouch option can how- ever only be applied once.

Image Quality

Small picture creates JPEG Fine copies (1:4 compression ratio). Image overlay creates copies at the current image quality setting. Other options copy RAW photos as JPEG Fine quality images; save where otherwise noted, copies created from RAW photos are 3,008×2,000 pixels in size.

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