Nikon P100, Nikon COOLPIX Crop Cutting Out Part of a Picture, Refine copy composition, Image Size

Editing Pictures

Editing Pictures

aCrop: Cutting Out Part of a Picture

Create a copy containing only the portion visible in the monitor when uis displayed with playback zoom (A106) enabled. Cropped copies are stored as separate files.

1 Enlarge the desired picture during full-frame display (A32) by rotating the zoom control to the g(i) direction.

•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. To crop the picture in

its current "tall" (portrait) orientation, first, use the Rotate image option (A114) to rotate the picture so that it is displayed in landscape orientation. Next, enlarge the picture for cropping, crop the picture, and then rotate the cropped picture 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 picture
until only the portion you want to copy is visible in the
monitor.	4.0

3 Press the dbutton.

4 Use the multi selector to choose Yes and press
the kbutton.	Save this image as
• A new picture, containing only the portion visible in the	displayed?
monitor, is created.
• To cancel, choose No and press the kbutton.	Yes
C Image Size	No

As the area to be saved is reduced, the image size (pixels) of the cropped copy is also reduced. When the size of the cropped copy is 320 × 240 or 160 × 120, the small picture icon Bor Cis displayed on the left of the screen in full-frame playback mode.

DMore Information

126See “File and Folder Names” (A181) for more information.