Nikon COOLPIX S8100 S8100 User's Manual - Page 52

Basic Photography and Playback: A (Auto) Mode Adjusting Brightness (Exposure Compensation), Vividness, and Hue Adjusting Brightness (Exposure Compensation) Adjust the overall brightness of the image. • To make the subject brighter, move the slider toward "+". • To make the subject darker, move the slider toward "-". Slider Brightness (Exp. +/-) +1.0 D Using the Histogram Exposure Histogram compensation value A histogram is a graph showing the distribution of tones in the image. Use as a guide when using exposure compensation and shooting without the flash. • The horizontal axis corresponds to pixel brightness, with dark tones to the left and bright tones to the right. The vertical axis shows the number of pixels. • Increasing exposure compensation shifts tone distribution to the right, and decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left. Adjusting Vividness (Saturation Adjustment) Adjust the overall vividness of the image. • Vividness increases as the slider is moved up. Vividness decreases as the slider is moved down. Slider Vividness Adjusting Hue (White Balance Adjustment) Adjust the overall hue of the image. Slider • The overall image becomes more reddish as the Hue slider is moved up. The overall image becomes more bluish as the slider is moved down. B Note on White Balance Adjustment When hue is adjusted using the creative slider, White balance in the shooting menu (A 46) 40 cannot be set.