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Editing still pictures, Soft focus – Olympus Stylus 500 Digital User Manual

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Editing still pictures

This function lets you edit still pictures and store them as new pictures. The

following editing operations are possible.

SOFT FOUCUS

This function enables you to add soft focus effects to the

selected pictures and store them as new pictures.

By using soft focus effects, you can change your picture to a

vignette picture to give a fantastic atmosphere.

FISHEYE

This function enables you to add fish-eye view effects to the

selected pictures and store them as new pictures. When the fish-

eye view mode is selected, the picture is transformed into a

spherical picture.

BLACK & WHITE

This function enables you to convert selected pictures into black

and white pictures and store them as new pictures.

SEPIA

This function enables you to convert selected pictures into

sepia-tone pictures and store them as new pictures.

Q

This function enables you to change the image size of selected

pictures and store them as new pictures. This is useful when you

want to reduce the volume of picture data, such as when posting

pictures on the Internet or attaching them to e-mail.

P

Crops part of a picture and saves it as a new file.

Select the still picture that you want to edit and display the top menu.

Top menu

[MODE MENU]

[EDIT]

[SOFT FOUCS]

g“Menus” (P.15)

1

Select [SOFT FOCUS] and

press

e.

• The [BUSY] bar appears and after the

image is saved, the camera returns to
the playback mode.

• The soft focused picture is stored as a

separate picture from the original.

• To cancel soft focusing, select

[CANCEL] and press

e.

• Creating soft focus pictures is not

possible in the following cases.

Movies or when there is insufficient memory space on the card.

Soft focus

Mode dial

SELECT

SELECT

GO

GO

OK

OK

CANCEL

CANCEL

GO

OK

CANCEL

SOFT FOCUS

SOFT FOCUS

CANCEL

SELECT