Understanding the Nikon D3400 DSLR Camera Retouch Menu

To entry the Nikon D3400 Retouch menu, press the menu button on the again of the digicam and use the multi selector to maneuver down the important menu. So the first is NEF or RAW processing. NEF is the suffix that goes on a uncooked picture and RAW is as they’re often identified. RAW pictures are pictures that aren’t compressed in any manner and subsequently retailer all information. In consequence, they’re much bigger when saved to disk, and also you want particular software program to open and edit them. When they’re then saved, they’re saved as JPEGs. {Many professional} photographers shoot RAW and there’s a vital distinction between opening an uncompressed RAW picture with all the information and opening a JPEG picture. You possibly can see the distinction should you take a look at the two facet by facet, however JPEG – particularly JPEG Tremendous – is a extremely good technique to save pictures as , and since the RAW pictures are then saved as JPEG, you do not essentially save so much finish consequence. Most photographers I do know will save as RAW when engaged on tremendous or detailed pictures. However after they ship their pictures to their shoppers, they invariably ship them as JPEGs. Right here you possibly can work on a RAW picture – not significantly efficient – there aren’t too many choices and so they’re fairly uninteresting devices. For instance, you possibly can change the file measurement; You possibly can change the white steadiness, publicity, and film fashion, however should you’ve bothered to avoid wasting a RAW picture, you will in all probability need to open it up on an enormous display screen and work on it with extra delicate settings.

The menu beneath in the Nikon D3400’s RETOUCH MENU is TRIM and that just about does what it says on the tin. This lets you change the picture part. In the event you’re capturing on 35mm (and that is successfully a 35mm digicam) then you definitely’re capturing 3 x 2, 3 throughout and a pair of down. You possibly can crop this and reduce to 4×3, 5×4 and sq. one after the other. You possibly can try this on the laptop too. The one under is RESIZE. Now you possibly can resize the picture down – you possibly can’t resize and enlarge the picture, but it surely would possibly come in useful if you wish to save pictures to obtain to social media earlier than you are in Snapbridge. You’ve gotten the choice to do that mechanically, so you do not have to undergo this course of if you wish to obtain via Snapbridge.

D-Lighting, situated under in the d3400’s Retouch menu, offers you the choice to use lighting after the shot. D-Lighting reduces distinction – the highlights – and narrows the vary of coloration and tonal vary, so that is what you should use at this level. And QUICK RETOUCH is a quite simple choice that both provides just a bit brightness or barely reduces the brightness. It simply provides a little bit of punch to your picture once you really feel you want it. Under that’s RED EYE REMOVAL, which could be very efficient. This can be a digital technique to cut back red-eye, and should you’ve taken an image that occurs to have extra in it than you would like, you possibly can apply this. Once more, it is simpler and possibly extra delicate to do that with enhancing software program and a pc, but when it’s essential to do it in digicam then that is an choice for you. STRAIGHTEN, clearly straightens the picture and makes the horizontals horizontal, which could be helpful for landscapes. There’s nothing worse than having a horizon that is not actually degree. It is a panorama images fake pas. The DISTORTION CONTROL in the Nikon D3400’s RETOUCH MENU makes an attempt to cut back the distortion which will have occurred with a really wide-angle lens or shot. PERSPECTIVE CONTROL may also try to manage perspective.

Then we come right here to the choices for Fisheye. Fisheye now does the actual reverse of distortion correction, and in case you have a standard wanting picture, you should use this feature to make it seem as if it was taken with a fisheye lens. It isn’t excellent, but it surely distorts the heart of the picture by the ton, making it appear like a fisheye lens. Under that’s FILTER EFFECTS. You possibly can add filters to the entrance of the lens, which after all will have an effect on the mild because it passes via the lens. This lets you add filters digitally. Right here now we have 4 doable filter results. The highest one is SKYLIGHT and that takes away a few of the blue. The Image Heat filter provides a little bit of orange to the image, making it seem hotter. Cross Display is a reasonably good filter as a result of it provides a starburst to the mild in the picture and simply makes them stand out a bit extra after which lastly softens which softens the picture and offers it a little bit of a heat hue so. This can be utilized with portraits and may also be used with landscapes to nice impact.

Subsequent in the D3400 RETOUCH MENU is MONOCHROME. This makes a coloration picture monochrome, however not simply black and white – it offers you sepia and cyanotype, that are successfully blue and white as effectively. Under that’s a picture overlay that may solely be used with uncooked pictures and lets you overlay one on prime of the different. The subsequent three – COLOR OUTLINE, PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, and COLOR SKETCH – are primarily variants of the identical course of. They principally make the picture appear like some form of illustration. So the coloration define takes all the coloration out and makes it appear like an overview drawing. The picture illustration offers the impression that it’s a extra stylized comedian ebook impact of the picture and the coloration sketch desaturates it so that you get a contact of coloration and principally make it an overview drawing with some touches of coloration.

The MINIATURE EFFECT in the D3400’s retouch menu could be very helpful and I prefer it, particularly should you do it beforehand. This blurs the exterior of the body to make the topic in the heart stand out much more, and it is actually fairly punchy. For instance, should you {photograph} a road or vehicles on a road from a forty five diploma angle – from the 2nd or third ground down onto the road – you possibly can truly make the vehicles appear like they’re mannequin vehicles. They stand out so vividly and so brightly towards the picture and background blur that it appears to be like like they’re a mannequin. It really works rather well and I actually take pleasure in utilizing it. Under that’s the Nikon D3400 SELECTIVE COLOR in the RETOUCH MENU. Properly, selective coloration may be known as the impact of Schindler’s Checklist. In the event you keep in mind that scene from the black and white film with the woman in the pink coat, that is successfully what that does. It makes the entire body black and white besides for 2 or three colours and you’ll decide these colours and resolve what they’re and by doing that you may truly create a really robust picture. It really works very effectively. Under that’s PAINTING, which successfully makes your picture appear like a portray.

Lastly, at the very backside, now we have EDIT MOVIE. Now these are fairly blunt edits. They don’t seem to be very delicate in any respect. Primarily, you possibly can select the begin and finish level right here. You possibly can reduce and edit the film when it comes to size however no different choices. You can not change the colours or the sort of recording. It’s also possible to save a particular body from it, however that is fairly straightforward, and should you use it to shoot films you’d anticipate to have the ability to do most of your enhancing in enhancing software program on an enormous laptop.

So these are the choices you may have in the Nikon D3400 RETOUCH MENU. As you possibly can see they aren’t very delicate and slightly bit uninteresting but when it’s essential to make edits to a picture you are able to do it right here and the solely saving issue is that in case you are making enhancing modifications to an authentic picture then that can Initially saved and all edits are created in a brand new picture, so you do not lose something by making an attempt to make the edits on the again of the digicam.