9.5 The Retouch menu on the D3200.
Editing in the Retouch Menu
The Nikon D3200 doesn’t need a computer to edit its images; it has a built-in Retouch menu that allows you to do some pretty cool image editing right in the camera. You can access the Retouch menu by pressing the Menu button (
) on the back of the camera and navigating to the Retouch menu (
) with the multi-selector. Once the Retouch menu () is selected, its icon is highlighted in purple.
D-Lighting
The D-Lighting setting brightens the shadow areas of a photo, but leaves the midtones and highlights alone. This brings out details that would otherwise be lost in the dark areas, without causing a loss of detail in the bright areas.
Each image can have three levels of D-Lighting applied. The first step is to select the image that you want to adjust. When you select D-Lighting from the menu, a thumbnail view of your images appears on the LCD screen. Use the multi-selector to scroll through your images until the one you want to edit is selected. It appears with a yellow border around it. Press the OK button () to open the edit ...
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