PowerShot SX740 HS Camera User Guide
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Before Use
Basic Guide
Advanced Guide
Index
Camera Basics
Auto Mode /
Hybrid Auto Mode
Other Shooting Modes
P Mode
Tv, Av, and M Mode
Playback
Wireless Features
Setting Menu
Accessories
Appendix
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Shoot.
● Hold the camera steady as you shoot.
When you press the shutter button all
the way down with background blur set
to [Auto], the camera shoots twice and
processes the images.
Smooth skin
effect
Choose from three levels of skin smoothing. Skin
smoothing is optimized for the main subject’s face.
Brightness Choose from ve levels of brightness.
Background
blur
Blur the background.
● Areas other than people’s skin may be modied, depending on
the shooting conditions.
● Try taking some test shots rst to make sure you obtain the
desired results.
● In [ ] ash mode, background blur is set to [Off] and cannot be
changed.
Shooting Yourself under Optimal
Settings (Self Portrait)
Still Images
Movies
For self-portraits, customizable image processing includes skin smoothing
as well as brightness and background adjustment to make yourself stand
out.
1
Enter mode.
2
Congure the setting.
● Press the button to access the setting
screen, and then congure brightness
and skin smoothing.
● After you press the
button to close
the setting screen, you can press the
button to disable the background blur
setting.
3
Open the screen.
● Open the screen as shown.