Nikon COOLPIXL24SLV, L24-SLV, COOLPIXL24BLK Creating a Cropped Copy Crop, Refine copy composition

Editing Pictures

Creating a Cropped Copy: Crop

This function is only available when uis displayed in the monitor with playback zoom (A 48) 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 a picture displayed in “tall” (portrait) orientation, zoom in on the picture until the black bars displayed on the both sides of the monitor disappear.

The cropped picture will be displayed in landscape orientation. If you want to crop the portrait image in the captured position, use Rotate Image (A 105) to change the position of the portrait image to landscape before cropping it, and then return the image to the captured position.

2Refine 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 picture until only the portion you want to copy is visible in the monitor.

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More on Playback

3Press d.

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

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

To cancel, select No and press k.

Save this image as

displayed?

Yes

No

CAbout the Size of the Original Image

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 lor mis displayed on the left of the playback screen.

DMore Information

52See, “Image File and Folder Names” (A 110) for more information.