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Making skin appear smoother: skin softening, A 73), A 73 – Nikon Coolpix S640 User Manual

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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

(A 30) or thumbnail (A 57) playback mode

and press the d button.

The playback menu is displayed.

2

Use the rotary multi selector to choose e

Skin softening and press the k button.

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.

3

Press H or I to 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.

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

J and K to switch the

face that is displayed.

To adjust the amount of skin softening, press the d

button and return to step 3.

Press the k button to create a copy edited with skin

softening.

Copies created by editing with skin softening can be

recognized by the E icon displayed during playback.

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Notes on Skin Softening

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.

Playback menu

Quick retouch

Slide show

Skin softening

D-Lighting

Print set

Exit

Skin softening

Normal

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Amount

Preview

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