User's Manual

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Shooting Features
Using Skin Softening
When the shutter is released when using one of the following shooting modes,
the camera detects one or more human faces (up to three), and processes the
image to soften facial skin tones before saving the image.
• Scene auto selector (A42), Portrait (A42), or Night portrait (A43)
scene mode is selected.
• Smart portrait mode (A53)
Skin softening can also be applied to saved images (A79).
B Notes About Skin Softening
• It may take more time than usual to save images after shooting.
• Under some shooting conditions, the desired skin softening results may not be achieved, and skin
softening may be applied to areas of the image where there are no faces. If the desired results are
not produced, switch to another shooting mode and then try shooting again.
• The skin softening level cannot be adjusted when shooting in Portrait or Night portrait scene
mode, or when the camera selects one of these scenes while in scene auto selector scene mode.