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TIP! If you choose MMS

duration, try choosing a lower image quality to enable you to shoot a longer video.

Inner/Outer camera - Switch to your LG KM900’s inner camera to record a video of yourself. See Using the inner video camera on page 62 for details.

Other settings

Memory - Choose whether to save your videos to the Handset memory or to the External memory.

Voice - Choose Mute to record a video without sound.

Zoom - Choose zoom from 4X, 8X or 16X.

Reset settings - Reset all the video camera settings.

Changing the video image size

The more pixels, the larger the file size, which in turn means they take up more memory. If you want to fit more videos on to your phone you can alter the pixel number to make the file size smaller.

1 From the viewfinder touch in

the top left corner.

2 Select Video size from the

Preview menu.

3 Select a pixel value from the five

options:

640x384(W) - The highest

quality widescreen option.

400x240(W) - This is also widescreen, but of a lower resolution.

640x480 - Standard sized

VGA.

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Video camera

320x240 - Smaller image size, therefore smaller file size. Great for saving on memory space.

176x144 - Smallest image size and therefore smallest file size.

4 Touch the back icon to return to

the viewfinder.

WARNING: The great editing software on your LG KM900 is compatible with all video types except 640X384 and 640x480. Don’t record in this format if you plan to edit your video.

TIP! For video format conversion

software, see the CD you received with your KM900.

Choosing a colour tone

1 From the viewfinder touch in

the top left corner.

2 Select Colour Effect from the

Preview menu.

3 There are five colour tone options,

Off (colour), Black & White, Negative, Sepia, Posterize.

4 Touch the colour tone you’d like

to use.

TIP! You can change a

video shot in colour to black and white or sepia after it’s taken, but you cannot change a video shot in black and white or sepia back to colour.

Using the inner video camera

Your LG KM900 has a 320x240 inner camera, not just for video calling but for recording videos too.

1 To switch to the inner camera

touch then select Inner Camera from the Preview menu.

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2 After a few seconds you’ll see

yourself in the viewfinder. To start recording the image press the capture button as normal, press a second time to stop recording.

3 After you’ve shot the video you’ll

be offered all the same options available for a video shot using the main camera.

4 To return to the main camera

touch and then Outer Camera.

TIP! You can still alter the image

size, scene mode, colour eect, white balance and quality by touching Settings in the same way as when using the main camera.

Watching your saved videos

1 In the viewfinder touch . 2 Your gallery will appear on screen. 3 Touch the video you want to view

once to bring it to the front of the gallery. It will automatically begin to play.

Watching your videos on your TV

Connect your KM900 to your TV using the TV output cable.

NOTE: The TV output cable is available for purchase separately.

WARNING: All formats except 320x240 and 176x144 are compatible with watching on TV.

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Viewing your photos and videos

1 Touch on your camera

preview screen.

2 Your gallery will appear on screen. 3 Touch the video or photo to open

it fully.

Sort by Date

TIP! Flick left or right to

view other photos or videos.

TIP! To delete a photo or

video, open it and select . Touch Yes to conrm.

Using zoom when viewing a video or photo

To zoom in press + repeatedly. To zoom out press –. Use the thumbnail in the bottom right corner to move the focus area.

Adjusting the volume when viewing a video

To adjust the volume of the audio on a video whilst it is playing, touch the volume bar on the left side of the screen. Alternatively, use the volume keys on the side of the phone.

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Capturing an image from a video

1 Select the video you would like to

capture an image from.

2 Touch to pause the video on

the frame you’d like to convert to an image select from the right side of the screen.

3 Select Save. 4 The image will appear on screen,

with its assigned image name.

5 Touch the image then to

return to the gallery.

6 The image will be saved in My

folders and appear in the gallery. You need to exit the gallery and then re-open it for this to appear.

WARNING: Some functions will not work properly if the multimedia le has not been recorded on the phone.

Viewing your photos as a slide show

Slideshow mode will show all the photos in your gallery one at a time as a slideshow. Videos can not be viewed as a slideshow.

1 Touch the photo you would like

to begin the slideshow to open it.

2 Select . 3 The slideshow will begin.

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There are options within slideshows:

Touch to skip photos.

Touch to pause the slideshow

on a particular photo.

Touch again to resume

playback.

Touch to increase or decrease

the speed of the slideshow.

Setting a photo as wallpaper

1 Touch the photo you would

like to set as wallpaper twice to open it.

2 Touch the screen to open the

options menu.

3 Touch . 4 The screen will switch to portrait

mode. You can zoom in and out on the picture and move the cropped section using a thumbnail at the bottom of the screen.

5 When you are happy with the

picture touch .

Editing your photos

There are loads of great things you can do to your photos to change them, add to them or liven them up a little.

1 Open the photo you’d like to edit

and touch to bring up the options.

2 Touch the icons to adapt your

photo:

Crop your photo. Choose a square or circular crop area and move your finger across the screen to select the area.

Draw something on your photo freehand. Select the thickness of the line from the four options and the colour you would like use.

Put writing on the picture. See Adding text to a photo on page 67.

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Decorate your photo with stamps. Choose from the different stamps available and touch your photo wherever you’d like them to be.

Erase the editing you have added to the picture. You can choose the size of eraser that you use.

Save the changes you have made to the photos. Select to save the changes over the Update, or as a New file. If you select New file enter a file name.

Undo the last Effect or edit

you made to the photo.

See Adding an effect to a

photo on page 68.

Touch to open further effect options including Rotate. There are also more advanced editing options. See Morphing a

photo, Adding a colour accent and Swapping the colours in a photo on page 70.

It hleps to adjust the picture taken using Auto color, brightness etc.

Touch to return to the

gallery.

Adding text to a photo

1 From the editing screen, touch

2 Select Signature to add

unframed text or choose one of the speech bubble shapes.

3 Enter your text using the keypad

and touch Done.

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4 Move the text by touching it and

sliding it to the place you’d like it to be.

Adding an effect to a photo

1 From the editing screen, touch

2 Choose to apply any of the

eighteen options to the photo Face beautify - Automatically

detect a face in the image and brighten it up.

Tunnel effect - Make your picture look like it has been taken using an old Lomo film camera!

Colour negative - Colour negative effect.

Black and white - Black and white colour effect.

Sepia - Sepia effect. Blur - Apply a blurred effect. Sharpen - Move the marker along

the bar to sharpen the focus of the photo. Select the OK icon to

apply the changes or choose to cancel.

Mosaic blur - Touch to apply a blurred pixelated effect to the photo.

Oil painting - Oil painting effect. Sketch - Apply an effect to make

the picture look like a sketch.

Emboss - Emboss effect. Solarize - Change the effect of

exposure to the light. Vivid - An effect of clearness and

brilliance. Moonlight - Change the light to

look like moonlight.

Antique - An old photo effect. Glow - A light beam effect. Cartoon - A cartoon effect. Water color - Make the picture

look like a water colour painting.

3 To undo an effect simply touch

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TIP! You can add more

than one eect to a photo.

Crop a photo

1 From the editing screen touch

2 Choose the shape you would like

to use to crop the picture.

3 Drag the box over the area you

would like to crop.

4 When you are happy with your

selection, touch .

Morphing a photo

Morphing a photo is great for changing the facial expressions of friends, or just for distorting a photo for artistic effect.

1 From the editing screen touch

2 Choose Morphing and four

crosses will appear on the photo.

3 Move the crosses around the

photo so they are on the parts

you’d like to morph. For example, if you are morphing a face, place a cross on the outside corner of each eye and one each side of the lips.

4 Select a face to represent how

you’d like to morph the photo.

5 Select to save the changes.

Adding a colour accent to a photo

1 From the editing screen, touch

2 Choose Colour accent. 3 Select part of the photo. A

traced line will appear around everything in that area which is of the same or similar colour. For example, someone’s hair or jumper.

4 Alter the intensity of the

accenting by touching and then sliding the marker up or down the intensity bar.

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5 Touch OK. 6 All colour will be removed from

the photo, apart from the section marked for colour accenting.

7 Select to save the changes.

Swapping the colours in a photo

1 From the editing screen, touch

2 Choose Colour swapping. 3 Select part of the photo. A

traced line will appear around everything in that area which is of the same or similar colour. For example, someone’s hair or jumper.

4 Touch and select a colour. 5 Press OK. 6 The part of the photo selected for

colour accenting will change to the selected colour.

7 Select to save the changes.

Editing your videos

The editing features are available for all video types except 640X384 and 640x480.

Don’t record in these formats if you plan to edit your video.

Trimming the length of your video

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Trim. 3 Touch and mark the new start

and end points using .

4 Touch to ensure you are

happy with the new cut.

5 Touch or, alternatively, touch

to return to the gallery and

discard the changes.

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Merging two videos together

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Video

merge.

3 The My videos folder will open.

Choose the video you would like to merge.

4 Touch and slide the photo

to merge it to the end or the beginning of the video.

5 Touch to choose how the

videos merge together: None, Fade out, Pan zoom, Oval, Uncover, Blind, Checker board, Dissolve, Split or Shape diamon.

6 Press followed by Yes to save

the new merged video. Choose to save over the original file or as a new file.

7 Repeat these steps to merge

more videos.

Merging a photo with a video

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Image

merge.

3 The My images folder will open.

Choose the photo you would like to merge into your video and touch Select.

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4 Touch and slide the photo

to merge it to the end or the beginning of the video.

5 Touch to choose how the

photo and video merge together:

None, Fade out, Pan zoom, Oval, Uncover, Blind, Checker board, Dissolve, Split or Shape diamon.

6 Press Save followed by Yes.

Choose to save over the original file or as a new file.

7 Repeat these steps to merge

more photos.

Adding text to a video

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Text

overlay.

3 Enter your text using the keypad

and select Save.

4 Touch and mark when you’d

like the text to appear using .

5 Touch the area of the screen you’d

like the text to appear in.

Select the area you want

6 Touch to mark when you’d

like the text to disappear.

7 Touch to ensure you are

happy with the text overlay.

8 Touch followed by Yes.

Choose to save over the original file or as a new file.

9 Repeat these steps to add more

text.

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Overlaying a photo

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Image

overlay.

3 The My images folder will open.

Choose the photo you would like to overlay your video.

4 Touch and mark when you’d

like the photo to appear using

5 Touch the area of the screen you’d

like the photo to appear in. If the photo is too big it will overlay the whole screen, not just the area selected.

6 Touch to mark when you’d

like the photo to disappear.

7 Touch to ensure you are

happy with the photo overlay.

8 Touch followed by Yes.

Choose to save over the original file or as a new file.

9 Repeat these steps to add more

photos.

Adding a voice recording

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Voice

recording.

3 The quality of the original audio

will be affected by adding a voice recording. Touch Yes to continue.

4 Touch to view your video.

When you get to the part you’d like to record your voice over, press .

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5 Press to stop recording and

playback.

6 Touch to ensure you are

happy with the voice recording.

7 Touch followed by Yes to

save. Choose to save over the original file or as a new file.

8 Repeat these steps to add more

voice recordings to the video.

Adding a soundtrack to your video

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Audio

dubbing.

3 The My sounds folder will open.

Choose the track you would like to add to your video.

4 The original audio of your video

will be erased. Touch Yes to continue.

5 If the audio is shorter than the

video choose whether to play

Once or to Repeat it.

6 Choose to save over the original

file or as a new file.

Changing the speed of your video

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Time

scaling.

3 Select one of the four speed

options: x4, x2, x1/4, x1/2.

4 Choose to save over the original

file or as a new file.

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Adding a dimming effect

1 Open the video you’d like to edit,

select and touch the screen to bring up the options.

2 Select and choose Dimming

Effect.

3 Choose to save over the original

file or as a new file.

4 Your video will now fade in at the

start and fade out at the end.

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Multimedia

You can store any multimedia files into your phone’s memory so that you have easy access to all of your pictures, sounds, videos and games. You can also save your files to a memory card. The advantage of using a memory card is that you can free up space on your phone’s memory.

To access the Multimedia menu, touch

then Entertainment. Touch My stuff to open a list of folders storing all of your multimedia files.

Pictures

My images contains a list of pictures including default images pre-loaded onto your phone, images downloaded by you and images taken on your phone’s camera.

My images options menu

The options which are available to you in My images depend on what type of image you have selected. All of the options will be available for pictures you have taken on the phone’s camera, but only the Use

as, Print, Sort by and Memory manager options are available for

default images.

TIP! When looking at

a picture, turn the phone to landscape to bring up further options on the right side of the screen. Choose from send, upload, set as homescreen, edit and delete.

Send - Send the image to a friend. Edit - Edit the image. Move - Move an image from the

phone memory to a memory card or vice versa.

Copy - Copy an image from the

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phone memory to a memory card or vice versa.

Use as - Choose from Main screen theme, Contacts image, Incoming call, Outgoing call, Switch on or off image.

Rename - Rename an image. Smart Light - Change the lighting

of your picture to improve it automatically.

Print - Print the selected image using a printer supported by Pictbridge or Bluetooth.

Slide show - View your images as a slide show.

File info. - View the file information.

Sending a photo

1 Touch then Entertainment. 2 Touch My stuff then My images. 3 Select the picture you want to

send, and touch Send. Choose from Message, Email, Bluetooth or Blog this.

4 If you choose Message or Email,

your photo will be attached to a message and you can write and send the message as normal. If you choose Bluetooth, you will be prompted to turn Bluetooth on and your phone will search for a device to send the picture to.

Using an image

You can choose images to use as wallpapers and screensavers or even to identify a caller.

1 Touch then Entertainment. 2 Touch My stuff then My images. 3 Select an image and touch . 4 Touch Use as and choose from:

Main screen theme - Set a

wallpaper for the home screen. Contacts image - Allocate an

image to a particular person in your contacts list so that the picture shows when they call you.

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