Editing Images

Image Editing

oCrop: Creating a Cropped Copy

Create a copy containing only the portion visible in the monitor when uis displayed with playback zoom (A62) enabled. Cropped copies are saved as separate files.

1Rotate the zoom control to g(i) in full-frame playback mode to zoom in on the image.

To crop an image displayed in “tall” (portrait) orientation, zoom in on picture until the black bars

displayed on the both sides of the monitor disappear.

The cropped image is displayed in landscape orientation. To crop the image in its current “tall” (portrait) orientation, first, use the Rotate image

option (A113) to rotate the image so that it is displayed in landscape orientation. Next, enlarge the image for cropping, crop the image, and then rotate the cropped image back to “tall” (portrait) orientation.

2 Refine copy composition.

 

Rotate the zoom control to g(i) or f(h) to adjust the

 

zoom ratio.

 

Press the multi selector H, I, Jor Kto scroll the

 

image until only the portion you want to copy is visible in

 

the monitor.

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3 Press d.

4Use the multi selector to select Yes and press k.

A new image, containing only the portion visible in the monitor, is created.

To exit without cropping the image, choose No and press k.

CAbout the size of the original image

Save this image as displayed?

Yes

No

The smaller the cropped area of the image, the smaller of the cropped image size (number of pixels). When the image is cropped and the size of the cropped copy is 320 × 240 or 160 × 120, the image is displayed with a gray border on the playback screen, and the small picture icon Bor Cis displayed on the left of the playback screen.

DMore Information

72See “Image File and Folder Names” (A121) for more information.