Chapter 9: Viewing, Editing, and Sharing Your Content

Once you fill a memory card with images, it’s time to review and edit them. Postproduction editing with computer software can sometimes be complex. Portrait touch-up, for example, is an art unto itself. If you only want to make a few minor adjustments to your photographs or movies, you can do so on your camera.

The T5i has some helpful options, including a series of creative filters, an image lock, and a photo rating system. This chapter covers the options available for reviewing your content, making simple edits, and sharing your images with family and friends.

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You can use your fingers to zoom in on the details of your photograph.

Viewing Content

As soon as you shoot images, you want to view them, and the LCD touchscreen on the back of your camera makes this easy. There are multiple ways that you can review your images beyond the LCD screen, but it’s a good starting point.

Viewing content on the camera

In most cases, the first place that you see your photographs and videos is on the LCD screen on the back of your camera. I highly recommend that you protect the LCD screen from scratches by closing it when it’s not in use. To close the screen, turn it around to face the camera. The LCD touchscreen is a helpful feature on the Canon T5i/700D. It’s fun, easy to use, and adds a new dimension to viewing pictures. I’m sure that ...

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