The Smart Portrait Menu; Skin Softening - Nikon CoolPix S9700 Reference Manual

The Smart Portrait Menu

See "Image Quality" (E29) and "Image Size" (E30) for information about
Image quality and Image size.

Skin Softening

Select smart portrait mode M d button M F menu icon M Skin
softening M k button
Option
S High
R Normal
(default setting)
Q Low
Off
The effects of skin softening are not visible when framing images for shooting.
Check the results in playback mode, after taking images.
When the shutter is released, the camera detects one
or more human faces (up to 3), and processes the
image to soften facial skin tones before saving the
image. You can select the amount of effect that is
applied.
Turns skin softening off.
Description
E43