Editing Pictures

Editing Camera-Playback/In on More

Creating a Cropped Copy: Crop

Create a copy containing only the portion visible in the monitor when uis displayed with playback zoom (A52) enabled. Cropped copies are stored 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. To crop the picture in its current “tall” (portrait) orientation, first, use the Rotate image option (A110) 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.

3 Press the dbutton.

4Use the multi selector to choose Yes and press the kbutton.

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

To cancel, choose No and press the kbutton.

CImage Size

Save this image as displayed?

No

Yes

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

74See “File and Folder Names” (A132) for more information.