Nikon D5000 Playback Modes & Screens

Pressing the OK button while viewing an image will bring up the Retouch Menu, as shown above.

Pressing the Help/Index/Zoom out button will bring up 4, 9, or 72 thumbnails, allowing you to quickly search through stored files. Press the button again and you will enter the Calendar display, which lets you search images that were captured on a certain date.

The full screen image can be enlarged up to 27x (depending on the image size) in multiple steps, at any step you can use the multi-selector to scroll around inside the magnified image. If any faces were detected in the frame, you can use the "i" button + rotate the control dial to display faces without changing zoom ratio.

Playback Menu

Delete - Delete images from CF card
Playback folder - Select the active playback image folder
Display mode - Select the playback display features: Shooting data, Histogram, Highlights, RGB Histogram, Focus point
Image review - Display image immediately after capture
Rotate tall - Automatically rotate portrait oriented images for display
Slide show - Start an automated slide show of the images in the current image folder
Print set - Enter DPOF printing information

Retouch Menu

D-Lighting - brightens shadows, ideal for dark or back-lit photos
Red-Eye Correction - Remove red-eye in your flash portraits (saves as a corrected copy, does not overwrite original)
Trim - Crop and image and save as a new file
Monochrome - Choose Black&White, Sepia or Cyanotype (blue and white monochrome)
Filter Effects - Choose from Sky light, Warm filter, Red/Green/Blue intensifier, Cross screen, or Soft
Color Balance - Use the multi-selector to create a copy of an image with modified color balance.
Small Picture - Create a small copy of and image
Image Overlay - Combine two existing RAW photos to create a single picture that is saved separately. The new image is saved at the current image quality and size settings.
NEF (RAW) processing - Convert RAW images to JPEG format in-camera with minimal editing options for white balance, image size, exposure comp., picture control, etc.
Quick retouch - Enhances saturation and contrast as well as applies D-lighting as required; image is then saved as a new file
Straighten - Correct images that are not level
Distortion control - Reduce effects of peripheral distortion (barrel distortion and pin-cushioning) in your photos; Auto or Manual options, edited image is saved as a new file
Fisheye - Create copies of images that appear to have been photographed using a fisheye lens
Color Outline - Outline an image, saves as new file
Perspective control - Reduce the effects of perspective in photos of tall buildings, etc.
Stop-motion movie - Create a Stop-motion from photos saved on the memory card

Here you can see the D-lighting option. You can control the intensity of this feature with settings for Low, Normal or High.

You can also adjust Color balance right in the camera.

Don't have time to edit a NEF (RAW) file on your PC or Mac? No problem, the D5000 offers quick and basic RAW conversion in-camera, for processing on the fly.

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