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To access the Retouch menu for the Nikon D3400, press the menu button on the back of the camera and use the multi selector to move down the main menu. So the first one is NEF or RAW processing. NEF is the suffix that will go to a raw image and RAW is how they are commonly known. RAW images are images that are not compressed in any way and therefore save all data. As a result, they are much larger when saved to disk and you need a specific piece of software to open and work on them. When saved, they are saved as JPEG files. Many professional photographers shoot in RAW format and there is a significant difference between opening an uncompressed RAW image with all the data and a JPEG image. You can see the difference when you look at the two side by side, but JPEG, particularly fine JPEG, is a very good way to save images, as RAW images are saved as JPEG, it doesn’t necessarily save a file. a lot in the end result. Most of the photographers I know, if they are working on fine or detailed photos, will save them as RAW. But invariably, when they send their images to their clients, they send them as JPEG files. Here you can work on a RAW image, not in a very effective way, there are not too many options and they are quite blunt instruments. You can, for example, change the size of the file; you can change the white balance and exposure, and the image style, but if you bother to save a raw image, you probably want to open it up on a large screen and work on it with some more subtle settings.
The one underneath the Nikon D3400 TOUCH-UP MENU is TRIM and that pretty much does what it says. Allows you to change the cropping of the image. When you shoot at 35mm (and this is effectively a 35mm camera), you shoot 3 x 2, 3 through 2 down. You can trim this and trim it to 4 x 3, 5 x 4 and squared one by one. Again, you can also do it on a computer. Next is CHANGE SIZE. Now this allows you to resize the image down; You cannot resize and enlarge the image, but it might be useful if you want to save images for download on social media before being on Snapbridge. You have the option to do this automatically so you don’t have to go through this process if you are downloading via Snapbridge.
D-Lighting, located below the d3400’s retouch menu, gives you the opportunity to apply lighting after the picture has been taken. D-Lighting reduces the amount of contrast, reflections, and narrows that color and tone bandwidth, so you could use that at this point. And QUICK RETOUCH is a very basic option that simply adds a bit of shine or slightly reduces shine. It just gives your image a bit more punch if that’s what you feel you need. Below is the RED EYE CORRECTION, which can be quite effective. This is a digital way to reduce red eye and if you have taken a photo that is more than you would like you can apply this. Again, it will be easier and probably more subtle to do this on editing software and a computer, but if you need to do it on camera, this is an option for you. STRAIGHTEN, obviously straightens the image by making horizontal the horizontal ones that can be useful for landscapes. There is nothing worse than having a horizon that is not actually level. It is a misstep of landscape photography. The DISTORTION CONTROL on the Nikon D3400 RETOUCH MENU will attempt to reduce the amount of distortion, perhaps that which may have occurred in a wide angle lens or in a wide angle shot. PERSPECTIVE CONTROL, likewise, will try to control perspective.
Then we move on to the options here for fisheye. Fisheye now does the exact opposite of distortion control and if you have a normal looking image it can give the impression that it was shot with a fisheye lens using this option. It’s not perfect, but it distorts the center of the image, giving the impression of a fisheye lens. Below is FILTER EFFECTS. You can put filters on the front of the lens and that will obviously affect the light as it passes through the lens. This allows you to add filters digitally. Here we have four possible filter effects. The top one is CLEAR OF LIGHT and that takes away some of the blue. The warm image filter will add a bit of orange to the image and make it feel warmer. The crossover screen is quite a nice filter because it will add a starburst to the light in the image and it will only make them stand out a bit more and eventually soften, which will soften the image and give it a warm tone as well. That can be used with portraits and can also be used with landscapes to great effect.
The next one on the D3400 TOUCH-UP MENU is MONOCHROME. That turns a color image into monochrome, but not just black and white; it will offer you sepia and cyanotype, which is also effectively blue and white. Below is an image overlay that can only be used with raw images and allows you to overlay one on the other. The next three – COLOR SKETCH, PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, and COLOR SKETCH, are effectively variants of the same process. Basically, they make photography look like a form of illustration. So the colored outline will remove all the color and make it look like an outline drawing. The photo illustration will give you the impression that it is a rather stylized comic effect of the image, and the color sketch will desaturate it to have pops of color and basically turn it into a contour drawing with some pops of color.
MINIATURE EFFECT in the D3400’s retouch menu can be quite useful and I like it, especially if you do it beforehand. This blurs the outside of the frame to make the subject in the middle stand out much more and is actually quite striking. If you take a picture of a road or cars on a highway from, say, 45 degrees, from the second or third floor, towards the street, then you can make the cars look like miniature cars. They stand out so vibrantly and so brilliantly from the image and background blur that it looks like they are a pattern. It works great and I quite like using that one. Below, in the Nikon D3400 RETOUCH MENU, is COLOR SELECTIVE. Now selective color could also call Schindler’s List effect. If you remember that scene, the black and white movie with the girl in the red coat, then this is indeed what it does. It makes the entire frame black and white except for one, two, or three colors, and you can select those colors and decide what they are, and by doing so, you can create a very powerful image. It works very well. Below is PAINT, which effectively makes your photograph look like a painting.
Finally we have at the bottom EDIT MOVIE. Now, these are pretty hard-hitting editions. They are not very subtle at all. Basically what you can do here is choose the start and end point. You can cut and edit the movie in terms of length, but not in other ways. You cannot change the colors or the way you shoot. You can also save a selected frame from it, but that’s pretty basic, and again, if you shoot movies with this, then you’d expect to be able to do most of your editing in editing software on a large computer.
So those are the options you have in the Nikon D3400 RETOUCH MENU. As you can see they are not very subtle and they are a bit blunt, but if you need to make any changes to an image you can do so here and the only saving factor is that you have to make editing changes to an original. image, the original will be saved and the changes will be created in a new image so that you don’t lose anything when trying to make the edits on the back of the camera.