Editing Pictures

Creating a Cropped Copy: Crop

Create a copy containing only the portion visible in the monitor when uis displayed with playback zoom (A60) enabled. Cropped copies are stored as separate files.

1 Enlarge the desired picture during full-frame display (A30) 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 rotary multi selector H, I, Jor Kto move the display area to other areas of the picture.

3 Press the dbutton.

4 Use the rotary multi selector to choose Yes

 

and press the kbutton.

Save this image as

A new picture, containing only the portion visible in

displayed?

the monitor, is created.

 

To cancel, choose No and press the kbutton.

No

 

 

Yes

CImage Size

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 copy is displayed with a gray border during playback, and the small picture icon Bor Cis displayed on the left of the screen in full-frame playback mode.

DMore Information

Editing Camera-Playback/In on More

See “File and Folder Names” (A139) for more information.

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