Patent ID: 7480002

Claim:
A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus including a display panel, the method comprising: providing a display sub-area on the display panel; receiving a signal according to one of a user-actuated first mode to capture an image and store said image to a memory, and a user-actuated second mode to reproduce said image from said memory; displaying a preview image in one of a main display area of the display panel and the display sub-area relative to the receiving step; reproducing said image from said memory in the other one of said main display area and said display sub-area; and exchanging said image with said preview image, wherein the exchanging step comprises: receiving a first signal from a user activating said display sub-area; receiving a second signal from the user actuating a confirmation means; replacing a first image in said main display area with a second image in said display sub-area; and substantially simultaneously with the step of replacing a first image in said main display area with a second image in said display sub-area, replacing the second image in said display sub-area with the first image in said main display area.