Effects such as ArtBold, Water Painting, Grainy Black and White, Soft Focus, Toy Camera, Fish- Eye and Miniature let users pick and choose how to best express their creative vision before or after the image is captured.

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"My Image Garden" also features Full HD Movie Print5 to produce clear images of frames from videos captured on compatible HD Canon EOS and PowerShot Digital Cameras and VIXIA Camcorders, in addition to Fun Filter Effects such as Fish-Eye, Miniature and Toy Camera for further image customization.

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Additional new features include HDR panoramic, which takes wide-angle, or "fish-eye, " shots that normally require an expensive digital single-lens reflex camera.

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Combining a standard camera view, with a second wider view, filmed with a "fish eye" lens, it has been used to film a short live action film called Broken, as well as the Kill Mode animation.

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