I recently bought the Canon Eos Rebel XSi 450D. Need help with zoom and save?

Love it. I am now learning the program that came with the camera and I’m trying to enlarge/zoom some of my photos and save them in that enlarged size. I’ve tried everything and can’t seem to figure this one out. Anyone out there know how to do this with this specific camera’s program? Appreciate all the help I can get.

Answer by Caoedhen
Saving a zoomed image is not what you do.

You have to crop the image to what you want, and then save the cropped image. It is best to save the new version with a new file name, so you don’t lose the original. I can’t walk you through the process using Zoombrowser, I don’t use that software.

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Spikes and Chains


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Canon EOS Rebel XSi, EF 50mm f1.8 II, f4, ISO200, 1/500s, 50mm

It’s hard to explain the excitement that comes over me when my mind gets in its creative mode. To be honest, it doesn’t happen that often, even if I’m taking pictures every day. You see, I’m very much an analytical person and like things to be neat and tidy – planned and controlled. This type of mindset usually does not fit with that of an ‘artist’. However, photography allows the creative side of my brain to escape now and then, and when it does, I’m like a kid in a candy store!

Today’s image was one of those situations where I actually was aware of my brain saying to itself, "How can I make this more interesting?" Friday morning greeted us Minnesotans with a frost to end all frosts – one that produced large, spike-like flakes on whatever structure was lucky enough to be outside at the time. All of the trees, streetlights, signs, etc. turned white and produced an amazing landscape. It truly was beautiful!

After trying to capture the wooded landscape in the Cottage Grove area, and failing miserably at it, I decided to try something else. Lately, my eye has been keen to seeing smaller, less obvious subjects rather than larger landscapes, so I traveled over to a local park that featured a frisbee golf course. There were a few pine trees close to the road so I started looking for some close ups of the branches and needles.

What really caught my eye was one of frisbee golf baskets close to the road. The frosty spikes stuck out nicely from the chains of the basket and getting a close up of these guys was a given, however, after gathering a shot or two of the obvious, my mind asked, "How can we make this look different – more artistic?" After looking around the basket, I decided to run the center shaft of the fully extended tripod up in the air and angle the camera looking down through the chains and into the basket in order to create some interesting lines from the chains. Also shot with a relatively wide open aperture to narrow the focus range and give a bit of drama to the outside of the frame.

After running through Nik and Topaz filters, then some basic sharpening and definition in Aperture, the resulting image was very much to my liking. I liked the tones of the image, and also found the lines and shallow depth of field quite interesting. Both taking and editing this image were tons of fun, mainly because both processes exercised that creative side of the brain that longs to be awaken any chance it can. Excitement if you will.

I know, I’m a nerd!

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Here is a Comparison between the new EOS 450D and its predecessor EOS 400D. Canon’s EOS 450D — or Rebel XSi as it’s known in North America — is the company’s latest entry-level DSLR and the successor to the hugely popular EOS 400D / Rebel XTi. Announced towards the end of January 2008, just a few days before the annual PMA show, the 450D / XSi features a number of key improvements over its predecessor –some predictable, others less so.
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