Editing Pictures

Making Skin Appear Smoother: Skin Softening

Skin softening can be applied to faces that are detected in pictures already taken, to make skin appear smoother. Pictures edited with this function are stored as separate files.

1 Choose the desired picture from full-frame (A30) or thumbnail (A57) playback mode and press the dbutton.

The playback menu is displayed.

2 Use the rotary multi selector to choose e Skin softening and press the kbutton.

The screen that allows you to set the amount of skin softening appears.

If no faces can be detected in the image, a warning is displayed and the screen returns to the playback menu.

Playback menu

Quick retouch

D-Lighting Skin softening

Print set

Slide show

Exit

3 Press Hor Ito choose the amount of skin softening to be applied, and press the k button.

A confirmation screen is displayed, and the image is displayed zoomed in on the face edited by skin softening.

Skin softening

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4 Confirm the results.

Up to 12 faces, in order of proximity to the center of the frame, can be enhanced.

When multiple faces are edited using skin softening, use the rotary multi selector Jand Kto switch the face that is displayed.

To adjust the amount of skin softening, press the d button and return to step 3.

Press the kbutton to create a copy edited with skin softening.

Copies created by editing with skin softening can be recognized by the Eicon displayed during playback.

CNotes on Skin Softening

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Editing Camera-Playback/In

Depending on conditions such as the direction the subject is facing or the brightness of the face, the face may not be detected properly, or the desired effect may not be achieved.

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