Enhance Your iPhone Photography with VSCO

1. Introduction: Phrase. That might be a little bit of a cliche, but I think rings true nonetheless, is that the best camera that you can have is whichever camera you have with you. As phone cameras become more advanced, I find myself, even as a professional photographer, reaching for my phone more and more, especially when traveling, you know, went out and about to take a quick snapshot that doesn't require me setting everything up or having a big bulky camera with me. You know, from additional lenses for your phone, to powerful editing software built specifically for iphones, specifically for Android phones, taking a photo with just your phone has never been easier. In this class, we're going to be taking iphone photography one step further, and diving into the world of photo editing for iphones using an app that is designed for iphones. The app in question is one of the most popular photo editing apps available for iphone it's Visco or VSCO. However you want to pronounce it, my name is Fakery and I am a professional photographer. I've been working in the photography industry for close to a decade, but I've never fallen out of love with the art of taking photos with your phone or editing with tools such as Visco, which is actually the first software that I ever personally used when it came to editing my photos. And so it's the app that I attribute a lot of my learning to and a lot of where I developed those editing skills. And those skills when it came to working with things such as color. So not only does Visco offer a wide variety of filters and editing tools to help enhance your photos and give them that professional look. You can also take advantage of the app's other powerful features, such as the ability to adjust individual colors within your photo. So we'll be taking a look at both the free version of Visco as well as the paid version. What are the differences? What are the features that can be unlocked with a monthly membership? And how much can you actually do with a free version of the app? And what I love about Visco is that all of the tools that you learn within the app, within, you know, this system that Visco have created are applicable across different editing softwares. So you know, if you're wanting to learn light room, if you're wanting to learn snapseed or photo shop, a lot of these tools and ideas and techniques that you can use within Visco are applicable to other apps. So it really is a great way to have an introduction into photo editing. So if you're interested in taking your iphone photography to the next level, then join me in the next lesson and let's get stuck in. 2. Let’s Get Started! + Class Project: Welcome to the class. I am so glad that you have joined me and decided to dive into this class all about editing photos with Visco photos that you maybe have taken on the camera, photos that you've taken on the phone, it doesn't matter, it can all be edited in the Visco app. And we're going to be diving straight in with an introduction to what Visco is and how it can be used. So this class will be separated into different sections. During the beginning lessons, we're going to be exploring the free app, all of the features that are available within the app that is for free. You can download it for free, there's no costs involved. We're going to be looking at what features are on offer, and we're also going to be looking at what those mean and how you can use them. And then for the second half of the class, we're going to be looking at the paid version for those of you who might want to join the subscription or already have the paid version of Visco. But don't worry if you're not looking to pay for the app. If you're not looking to, you know, join the Visco subscription, then don't worry. A lot of the tools and techniques available within the Visco Pro version are also available on other apps like Photoshop, light Room, Snapseed, et cetera. So going through what they are and what they do and how to use them will be applicable and hopefully useful for other editing apps as well. It's just the interface that we'll be using. We'll be Visco S, and then after that, we're going to be going into an editing session of our own. I'm going to be editing some photos that I took with my phone, with my iphone and showing you how I use Visco to enhance those photos for the class project. It's really simple. I want you guys to edit a photo using Visco, Using the free version or the paid version. It doesn't matter, whichever you want to use, whichever you have access to just edit one photo using Visco. Once you've edited the photo, export the photo and upload it to the project gallery. Bonus points, if you are willing to add a short paragraph explaining how you edited it, maybe talking about the different tools that you've used and, you know, maybe even writing a note on the favorite features that you've enjoyed. In the next lesson we're really going to get stuck in, we're going to be doing a welcome to Visco lesson. 3. Welcome to VSCO: Welcome to Visco. What is Visco or BS? Co? However you want to pronounce it. So Visco is a very popular editing app. It essentially offers a wide variety of filters, editing tools to help you enhance photos and give them a professional look. Not only is Visco a great option for those who are looking to set their iphone photography to the next level, but it also has really simple and easy to use interface, which is perfect in teaching you the basics of photo editing to apply it to any other app or software that you might have to use in the future. So I have my phone here and I have set up a test account. Since I pay for the Visco app, I have a subscription. We've set up a test account. So I'm going to dive into the free version and we're going to go through the free version. So first up, when you open up the app, you're going to be greeted with this which is your feed and your feed. It's a social media type feed. It allows you to like, it allows you to repost, to share photos from others. Follow photographer as you like. So, kind of very similar to an Instagram or a tumbler or something like that. And then next to the feed, you have this little magnifying glass. And this brings you to Discover. And Discover is, again, kind of like your Explore page on Instagram. And this includes, you know, work from other Visco users, some of whom will shoot on their phone, like we will be doing in this video, and some of who will be importing and editing photos from professional cameras. And then if you go into this middle section, this is the creative part of the Visco app. So this is your studio and this is where you can import photos in, you can select photos to be edited, et cetera. So in the next some, we're going to be jumping into the Visco studio and having a look at the interface, how you import photos, et cetera. 4. The VSCO Studio: So welcome to the Visco Studio part of today's class. So we haven't dived into the studio using the free version of the Visco app. And we're just going to be exploring what this studio looks like and what you can do with it. So as you can see already, the studio includes photos that I've already imported and that I've already edited. At the top here we have the different tags. So if I wanted to click on edited, it would just show me edited photos un edited. It would show me photos that I haven't got around to editing. And if I wanted to find my videos, I don't know how many videos on my studio, but you'd click videos and it works as a tag system to filter the photos you've uploaded into videos, images unedited, not saved, et cetera. At the top, you have the create a new draft which is essentially how you're going to import photos from your gallery, your iphone gallery into the app. You click on the photo that you want to import continue, and that is going to import that photo into your studio. At the top, you also have Create with college, which is a part of the paid version of the app. Same with montages, which is essentially a video feature on the app that is a paid version which we'll cover later on in the class. And then next to that we have a camera version. So once you give access to Visco to have a look at your camera, you can see what I'm shooting now through my camera. And it's a normal camera with grid options and, you know, with flashes. But it also has these different tools that you can use. So that's an Aurora tool. This one's retro, which kind of allows like a little bit of a filter. This one is a prism. Makes it look a little bit like you've got a glass prism in front of your ****. So that is kind of the interface of the studio. It's very simple, very easy to use. And I'd just take a moment now, click the buttons, Have a look at what your Visco Studio looks like and see how you can get to grips of it. In the next lesson, we're going to start editing a photo. We're going to be looking at presets within the Visco free version of the app. 5. Editing: Presets: Welcome to the next lesson, we're going to be diving into the preset. Disco is probably most well known for the presets that it offers, you know, from black and white filters to film like filters. Visco is very well known for these presets and filters that they have and they create, which allow you to use a base for your editing. And that's what a preset is. It's a set of a preset load of filters, of settings that have been applied to an image to create a specific look. And it's often used as a base for you to edit your photo, how you need to edit. So the basic free version of Visco, which we are starting this class off with, has a small array of different filters. So we're going to dive in and have a look. So I'm going to double click this photo that I just imported in the last lesson. And we're going to click Edit Image, which is just at the bottom left. And as you can see here, there are some filters available within the popular section. So this go categorizes the presets based on presets that they think would work best for your photo as well as you know, popular, et cetera. You can see which ones are locked for, for the pro version. The ones that don't have that little lock symbol are the ones that you can use as a base in the free version, paved version of the app has access to all of these like hundreds, hundreds of different presets. That being said, all of the presets that are available on the free app are still really high quality presets. And, you know, the ones that I actually use, even though I use the paid version of the app, tend to fall within these three presets. So to apply the preset, you just tap the preset that you want to use. And you can use this slider if you double tap to put the intensity of the preset on it, the strength as such. So you can see when it's down here at the bottom, there's no preset at all. And as I side it up, the preset gets stronger. And then when you're ready to accept it, you just press the tick. And you can use these presets to create mood, to create a vibe within your photos. There is a lot to be said for color theory and color psychology, which is really important in the art of editing photos. Because you can use different colors, you can use different temperatures to convey and to communicate moods, narratives, vibes. I actually have a full class on skill share all about color psychology and color theory. If you're interested in how you can use color to enhance your photos, both in the shooting process but also in the editing process. So like I said before, presets are really there as a base to get you started. And Visco has a great array of different presets. You know, a lot of them are very film like inspired by film photography, which is something that I really like. I really like the analog series on Visco's app. I think they're really effective. So in the next Ess, and we're going to be jumping into composition, talking about all the different composition tools available on Visco. But for now, I just want you to have a play around, have a look at the presets that you have available on your Visco. And then join me in the next essen well, we're going to be talking all about composition. 6. Editing: Composition: Welcome to the next lesson in this whole series about Visco. In this lesson, we're going to talk about composition, which is arguably one of the most important steps when it comes to editing your photos. Once we're into our editing image, you can click this little slider thing which shows you all of the different tools that you have within Visco, away from the presets. When it comes to editing composition, you can use the adjust tool. What the adjust tool does is it gives you access to these different options. One being crop and straighten. Cropping can be changing the ratio of your image, cropping in to change how an image looks. So for example, you could use the preset ratios such as nine by 16, which is perfect for something like an Instagram story. Or four by five, which is perfect for an Instagram grid post. And then you can use these little dots on the corners of the image to drag them and change your composition. So I like to select my ratio first, Let's say this photo is going to be on my Instagram story. I'm going to select nine by 16. And I'm going to drag that ratio box to where I like the composition to that bounded box. You can see there is going to be where the image is, the darker side of the image where it's like a little bit grayed out. That is going to be disregarded from the image. So everything that's brighter within this bounding box is what is going to be remaining of your image. One of my favorite compositional techniques is to center a line. So we're going to put this truck in the center of the image. Alternatively, I really like this shadow that the truck is casting. So I could drag this bound box just to the edge and make sure that I have that shadow as well, so that, that becomes the focal point of the image as you can see there. Once I press the tick, it shows you that composition is going to look like. Going back into the adjust tool, you can also rotate your image 90 degrees. You just tap this button here on the edge of the crop and straighten tool. So you can just keep tapping it until you get to where you want it to go. And again, you can use this little dial too straight in your image. So that's just rotating it essentially along the axis. There are a lot of rules to photography composition. One of which is often you might want to have the horizon straight. So you could use this crop and straighten tool to make sure that the image is straight. Of course, rules are also meant to be broken, so don't feel as though you have to take a part in that. They're just sometimes good rules to think about if you're stuck for composition or you don't really know to get started. So within this adjust tool, you also have the option to skew. So if we just click on the skew, you're going to see these two axes, the x and the y. So the x slider is going to skew the horizontal axis, left or right, as you can see here. The y axis is going to skew the y axis up or down. And this can be good to tackle kind of like distortion in your **** and just make sure that everything looks, you know, straight and as it should be. In the next Sesem we're going to be looking at the tools that Visco free version have to control the light, to control your exposure. 7. Editing: Light & Exposure: Next up, we're going to be diving into the exposure tools on scope. Remember that these are the tools available in the free version of the app. The ones that are available in the paid version we're going to be covering at the end of the class. So let's jump in. So again, we're opening up our photo from before clicking Edit Image, and then heading to these little sliders in the bottom left. We're going to click on Light. And you can see that exposure is the first unlocked tool here. So in this context, it essentially controls how light or dark an image is. You can see as I slide it down, it's going darker. As I slide it up, it's going lighter. So when choosing the exposure of your image, you want to make sure that you maintain the most detail possible within your image. Making your image too dark, you'll lose information in the shadows of your image, making it too light, and you're going to lose information in the highlights of your image. So usually iphones are pretty good at taking a photo with correct exposure, but you might want to slightly adjust it for this one. I'm going to slightly bring down the exposure just to bring back some of those details. I find that especially yellows can sometimes look a little bit overexposed. So I'm just bringing that down slightly, so this is what it was before. And we're just going to bring that, bring a bit more depth into those colors. And press the tick to confirm it. Once you've set your exposure, it's time to move to the contrast slider. And the contrast slider will create more of a juxtaposition or less of a juxtaposition between the light and the dark parts of your image. For example, when I increase the contrast slider, the lighter sections of the image will get lighter and the darker sections will get darker. When I decrease the contrast slider, the light sections will appear darker and the dark sections will appear lighter, creating a flatter image. That's what we call it. When there's not a lot of contrast, it's quite a flat image. Contrast is often up to your own personal taste and it will also depend on the photo that you're working with and your desired outcome. So have a play around and see what you think. The next tool we're going to be looking at is fade. So we're going to click on the fade feature. And this specifically targets the darkest points of your image, known as the black point. So you can see here, as I increase the fade, creates a faded effect on the black point, which is known as crushing the blacks in an image, fading and crushing the blacks is a very stylized choice and will depend again on your personal taste and what you're aiming for in an image. For me personally, this tool reminds me of that image style that was popular at the height of the tumbler days, you know, circa 2014. And it can also be used, when done correctly, to emulate film photography as film, when it's underexposed, often produces muddy or crushed blacks. A little bit like this. Personally, I'm not a massive fan of using fade, so I'm going to keep mine right down at the bottom. So we're not really going to be using it at all. In the next sum, we're going to be moving away from light and exposure and instead we're going to be diving into the color features that Visco free app has to offer. 8. Editing: Colour: Color, as we touched upon when we were speaking about presets is one of the key elements to photography. You know, the way in which we use color and color interact with each other can have a drastic effect on the message, the vibe of a photo, the way that a photo communicates to the audience, and also how easy or uncomfortable an image is on the eye. So we're going to jump into the color section on Isco. The basic tools on Visco can be used to help enhance the colors within your image. So we're going to start with saturation. Saturation is the thing that refers to the intensity of color. The saturation slider in Visco controls the saturation of all of the colors within your image. If you slide it to the left, it decreases the saturation or the intensity of the colors. But if you slide it to the right, it increases the saturation or the intensity of the colors. Again, saturation can be used as a stylistic device. Overly saturated images have been popular throughout history. Just as desaturated images have been. Play around with this tool to try and find the perfect balance for you're aiming for and what complements the colors within your image. For me, I'm just going to brighten it up a little bit, maybe about 1.5 on this slider. Or wish I don't personally like to make things look too unrealistic, but again, it is really just down to your personal taste. Next up, we're going to jump into white balance. So white balance refers to the color or the hue of the whites in your image. And we measure this in temperature. So warmer colors and tones are considered more yellow, colder colors and tones are considered more blue. The Visco White Balance Tool allows you to adapt the temperature, pushing your image into a warmer or colder set of hues, as well as the tint. And the tint controls how much the hues in your image lean towards, either green or to magenta. And you can use the white balance tool to create style within your image or to even correct color casts or lighting within your image. In this one, I'm going to create a bit of style. We're going to go for like a really warm kind of vibe. This photo is one that I took in Greece. It is a warm country, so I'm going to try and emulate that within the colors that I'm using. The next and final tool that Visco free plan has to offer within the color section is skin tone. This tool will detect the colors that are usually present in skin tones such as yellows, oranges, reds. And it will alter the hue of those colors. If you send the slide to the left, the hues will go more to red. If you send it to the right, the hues will go more to yellow. When you're taking photos of people, capturing accurate and flattering skin tones is really important. You can use this tool to help find how skin tones appear and how accurate they look. In the next Este, we're going to be looking at the final tools that Visco has to offer within its free plan. 9. Editing: Effects: Within this lesson, we're going to be looking at the two tools that Visco has to offer on its free plan. The last two, that is within the effects panel. So we're going to jump into effects, click the effects bit in the bottom. The first tool we're going to look at is called sharpen. Sharpen helps to improve the contrast of your image by darkening the dark pixels and brightening up the lighter ones. So it makes edges more defined, decreases any softness in an image. You can see as I'm moving this up and down and in turn emphasizes texture. So you can see as I increase the sharpness, this texture on the truck is really coming to life. Whereas how it was here was very soft, you couldn't really see it when using the sharpen tool. You want to be careful not to over sharpen an image, especially if you're working with faces because it can look quite harsh to have all of that texture really available within a face. For this, there's not anyone in the image, so you can kind of put it up a little bit more. I'm probably going to go roughly around halfway. If at any point when you're in the visco up, this is something I haven't mentioned yet, you want to see the before and after, you can tap the image and it shows you the original and when you let go, it shows you the image that you're editing right now. We're going to take that when we're ready for it and head into the vignetting tool. Vignetting is the final tool within this section and it refers to a dark border, often like blurry and shadow like at the periphery of the photos. You can see it as a drag it, there you go. You can see that this tool can be used to help draw focus to the center of your image by making the edges of the image darker and less likely to catch the viewer's eye. Personally, I don't use these two options very often within my own photography work. They can be quite effective, but, you know, when used carelessly and without purpose, they can appear gimmicky and maybe to cheapen an image. In the next session, we're going to be looking at Visco's very own preset system and that is called recipes. 10. Recipes: So what is a recipe? A recipe is viscous version of user precepts. User created precepts. So it essentially means that you can save a combination of edits to apply to other photos in the future. So how do we create a recipe? First of all, you're going to select an image from your library, tap the edit button, select a precept or something like that. Use the toolbar to just your photo as required. Make any adjustments that you want to make to the light or the color. So I'm just going to quickly go through this and put like a series of edits. Then you're going to head to this little button that looks like a circle with a round arrow around it. And you're going to click Create a Recipe. Once you finalize that, then we're going to come out of this, we're going to save changes, and we're going to import another image. Import another image. Going this one of a chair, edit the image and then head to your recipes. And I'm going to click that recipe and you can see that it's added all of the same settings that we use on the other image onto this image. On the free version of the app, you can just create one recipe. On the paid version, you can create as many as you want. In the next session, we're going to be talking about how you export your image from the Visco app to your camera. 11. Exporting Your Image: In this lesson, we're going to be looking at exporting your image, and this is really simple, to export your edited image. You're going to pad out of your editing view and back into your Visco studio, remembering to save your changes when prompted. And then you're going to tap the photo you want to export. And click the Share button. Save to camera roll, and then that item will be saved to your camera roll. You can also share directly to different platforms using the Share button. But I personally prefer saving to the camera roll and then uploading to my chosen social platform manually. In the next lesson, we're going to be talking about the Visco subscription, how it differs to the free version, and what the differences between the pro version and the plus version are. Before diving into the features that you have as a paid member of Visco, and please remember that these next few lessons are not just applicable if you want to pay for Visco, But these tools that we're going to be exploring can be used across, you know, different editing softwares, from the Adobe Creative suite to different iphone apps. 12. VSCO Subscription: Hey guys and welcome to the second part of this class. It's going really quickly. And so in this session we're going to just be doing a quick overview on what the Visco subscription is. Because there are actually two versions of this. You have the pro version and the plus version. And I just want to go over very quickly what the difference is and what you can expect from both. So within the plus version of Visco, you have over 200 presets. You have features such as saturation and luminous sliders which we're going to be talking about. And is a tool that is used in basically every you know it photo editing app available. So it is really an important one to kind of dive into. You also have access to a feature called Dodge and Burn, which again, we're going to get into it, but essentially allows you to make certain sections of an image lighter, certain sections of an image darker. You have access to grain, to text, to borders, to videos and gifts as well. So you can edit videos and gifts and to collage templates. So that was the plus plan for the pro plan. You get all of that, but you also get customizable Pro presets with fine editing controls. So the next few lessons will apply to features only available with a Visco subscription. And like I've said throughout this class, a lot of the features we're going to be covering are applicable on other editing software, so don't worry if you're not looking to spend the money. This should also be useful if you're just going to be editing on anything, even if it's not Visco. You can also unlock a free trial of the Visco subscription if you're not looking to spend money, but you want to try it out anyway, or follow along for this class. 13. VSCO Plus: Light & Exposure: So now we're going to be jumping back into the Visco studio and going back in with light and exposure, but this time using the paid subscription version. So we jump back into the studio. We're going to find an image to edit. I'm going to start off with this image of a fire hydrant because I think that's what it is. I'm not really sure what this is. It might be a drain thing, but it's a pretty flat image, so it's a good one to start with. So now you can see that we have all these unlocked tools. We still have our exposure on our contrast, et cetera, but we have other different tools. And we're going to head into dodge and burn to start with. Dodging and burning comes from a technique that was used in dark rooms. If you guys know anything about film photography, one of the things you can do with film negatives is you can print them on photographic paper using a series of chemicals. It's a whole process that I personally love engaging with. One of the tools that you might use in the dark room is a process called dodging and burning. And that essentially was controlling how much light was on an image to make it parts of an image darker or lighter. Now that we're using digital tools, it's a lot easier than that. What Co has here is a Dodge and Burn system that essentially lets you draw darker parts of the image and lighter parts of the image. If I click on Dodge and Burn, dodging is going to make this part of the image lighter. I don't know if you can see where I'm drawing there. Let's just make the size a bit bigger. Where I draw with the dodge, it's going to brighten up that part of the image. When it comes to burning, that is going to make it darker. For example, if I wanted this whole fire hydrant to be darker, then I would just draw over the fire hydrant. Personally, it's not at tool that I use very often when it comes to phone photography, but it's handy to know that exists. Next up we're going to look at something called tone. Tone is really interesting because tone essentially allows you to do a similar thing to dodging and burning, but with a little bit less control. What it does is it affects the lightness and darkness of the highlights and the shadows. So you, before when we were talking about fade and we were talking about crushing blacks, that's what the shadows does. It takes the darkest point and it makes that lighter or flatter with the highlights. It's going to take the lightest point and it's going to crush the whites. So you can see how that happens. So if we were to bring both of those up, that would create a really flat image with not a lot of contrast. In the next session, we're going to be diving into the pro version color features. 14. VSCO Plus: Colour: Color is one of my favorite parts of photography. I've spoken about it obviously in this class before, about the importance of color. The tools that Visco premium version has in store for color are really interesting. First up, we have something called split toning. And Split toning is really fun because what it does is it takes the same principle of highlights and shadows as we explored tone. But it allows you to add color to those highlights and shadows. So I think the best way to explain it is to show you here where we're on the shadows. If I was to click, let's say green, you can see that we've added a green into the shadows. And the slider, again, controls the intensity. Or if I wanted to add a purple me, I'm going to add a bit of green. And then in the highlights I'm going to go with something opposite like a red or this cream maybe that is adding to the highlights of the image. I'll show you a blue as well, just so that you can see. Because it's a little bit more obvious to show in this image how you can add it. This just allows you to add a different feel to the image. Again, like any editing technique, you want to be a little bit more subtle with it. And play around with how much intensity you're using these effects because you don't want it to cheapen an image. So I would recommend not adding too much, just adding a slight amount. These tools, of course, are designed to be used in conjunction with each other, so you can play around with how they all interact with each other. Next up, we're going to head into HSL, which stands for Huge Saturation and Luminance. Huge Saturation Luminant is a series of sliders that control your hue. Your saturation luminant, your hue is the actual profile of that color. So if we go into orange and we move that about, you can see that the fire hydrant is going more red and then go more orange, and we're only controlling the orange. So this is like a color selection tool. If I wanted to increase saturation, again, that's the intensity of the orange. If I wanted to increase lightness, it's the lightness or the darkness. And you can use this tool to really isolate those colors, whereas with saturation, you're affecting the whole entire image. The HSL sliders allow you to choose one color within the image to change at a time. It just gives you a little bit of greater control. In the next session, we're going to be looking at viscose effects. 15. VSCO Plus: Special FX: Jumping into the effects section of Visco, this basically creates different effects that have already been made as presets. So just like you have your color presets in Visco, you also have these presets to create certain effects. The essential ones are a lot about, you know, grain and dust. And emulating that kind of view of film photography, Again, you know, dust is something that you might have a lot of on a film negative because of course it's a physical thing and when it's scanned in, you have that dust apparent. But you also have other things such as light leaks. And light leaks, again, come from film photography. When light has entered the film and exposed part of the film where it shouldn't have and there's tons of different effects that you can use. And again, you just need to double tap it, just like a preset to change the intensity of it. You have different frames. So if you are again, going for like that, a film kind of vibe you could use. This is like super film vibe and borders and stuff like that. 35 millimeter. There are loads of different effects within the Visco app that you can play around with and use to meet your kind of desired outcome. Again, one thing I would say when it comes to effects is sometimes using them too much is a little bit of an overkill. So you don't want to cheapen your photos, your photography, by going too overboard with the effects. Use them subtly and they tend to be more effective. You know the saying of less is more. In the next lesson, we're going to be jumping into the last feature that we're going to be exploring within Visco, and that is creating collages. 16. VSCO Plus: Creating Collages: In this lesson, we're going to be looking at the last feature within Visco that we're going to be exploring before we go and actually edit our photo. And that is colleges. So colleges can be great to combine multiple images into one image and can be great for things like socials, you know, things for Instagram stories, Youtube, all of those things. You can kind of have like a mini version of Photoshop in your Visco app. So again, this is a pro feature and how we access this is just to click just at the top where you would import your photo. Next to it, there's a little collage button, so we're going to click it and you can see all of these different templates. Let's go for this one down here and continue. And what you have here is three different frames that allow you to select your images. So when we click on it, it's going to open up your personal camera role. So I can open up this image that we exported earlier. It has a bounding box as well. So if I do want to edit the template and then you know we want a background image, so I'm going to collect this image from contact sheet again. You can see that if I do tap it, I can drag it and change where it wants to go. Doesn't have to stay within the template. The template is there just to help you. I'm going to do the same thing again. I'm going to use the same image and just drag that so that the whole background is a contact sheet. And we can change by dragging and zooming with our hands how big that is going to be. This just creates layers and textures that you can use when presenting your image. Where before we were looking at maybe using frames and things like that. This is another way that you can maybe then export this collage to put on your Instagram story. I can also take away this image, like if I was to drag this really small so that we could then see the background and you just have these three images. Obviously, this design isn't great. I'm just trying to show you what we can do. You can then change the canvas color at the bottom so we could go for, you know, another orange. Drag these things about. You can also, when you click on this, change the capacity. So if you wanted it to be, you know, semi opaque, you can edit it as well. So you can click back into this image, edit the image, and then your changes will be, you know, reflected within the collage. So this really just gives you that option to play around and get a little bit more creative with where your photos are going to be. You can also add to different shapes. So for example, this circle I could add, add a yellow circle into the middle. Take this photo out by deleting it, and then you just have some contact sheets with the yellow circle, if that's what you want to have. But yeah, it's a really fun tool to play around with, not really photo editing, but it is a feature nonetheless within the Visco app. And to save it, I could just press next and it would just save two, my camera role. In the next lesson, we're going to be editing an image from start to finish using the premium version of Visco. But of course, like I said, you can use these tools and techniques in light room, in Photoshop, in Snapseed, in other editing softwares. And I just wanted to kind of give you an idea of the things that I would look for when I'm editing an image. And we're just going to be talking about that as we go through. 17. Edit With Me: Congratulations, you have made it to the end of the class and now we are going to be diving into editing a photo with me from start to finish, going over, you know, some of the techniques and the tools that we have already spoken about throughout this lesson. So again, for the final time, we're going to jump into the Visco studio. And if you want to do this alongside me, then feel free to because for your class project, of course, you are going to be uploading a photo that you have edited within Visco. So first up, I'm going to choose my photo. And the photo that I'm going to go for is again one from my trip to Greece. This photo here of a beach scene, like going down some steps to the water. And of course we're going to go into it by editing the image. I'm going to click on Edit, and I'm going to go through some of my favorite presets. So this one I really, really enjoy, it's the six pro preset, but I don't want it as intense as it is. So we're going to bring that down a little bit to about five in the pro version. You can also change the specific characteristics of that preset. So if I really like the tone but not the color, I can keep the tone and reduce the color for example. But I'm going to go roughly around there. We're going to click into the actual editing tools now I'm going to go into a just straight away and you see how I was talking before about horizons. And then being straight, I'm going to just straighten that horizon on the already that looks so much better before, has a lot more depth in that water. I want to bring some of that back. I'm going to head into our light section and I'm going to click into tones and bring back those highlights. I'm then also going to go into color. Use the saturation tool to increase the saturation slightly. Then what I might do is bring some split toning in. In terms of split toning, I think I'm going to go for something like the blue just to cool it down a little bit and just bring a little bit into those shadows. And then in the highlights we're going to flick through and see which looks to the nicest. I think this Magendato highlights a little bit. That's the after so far. We're going to then head into the HSL sliders and look at what we can change here. The blues look really cool already. Let's see if I can change them. I don't want to make them too purple. I'm going to keep them where they are because they look perfectly blue. But maybe just decrease the saturation. Which I know sounds a bit strange because you want the blue to look, you know, as blue as possible. But if I increase it, it doesn't look realistic. So I'm just going to bring that down a little bit and then maybe bring down that darkness so you can see those islands in the. I'm happy with the blues, I'm happy with them gents, the greens. I don't really like saturated greens very often, but I think they do look really good here. I'm going to just increase the saturation a little bit and bring that darkness down just so the color remains the color I'm happy with. But we're going to go a little bit more towards blue. They're a little bit less yellow. With the yellow, I'm going to decrease that saturation slightly just because of the path. And then the same with the orange. Just decrease that again. As you can see, I do go back and forth between my before and after quite often with red, I really like pops of red within a color, we're going to actually increase this red and make it a little bit more leaning towards that red, so it pops out a little bit more. The last thing I'm going to do is just to have a look at the white balance and just really make some overall adjustments. I'm going to bring it towards the pink, perfect. I'm really happy with that. The last thing I'm going to do is that horizon doesn't look quite as straight as I want it to be. So I'm just going to adjust that slowly. Perfect. I'm going to save that in my camera and we're going to go into another image and just edit another image in a different way. So you can see I might edit a different kind of image. Let's go into this image of this car, and this time we're not going to use any presets whatsoever, we're just going to be using the tools. I'm going to start by increasing the contrast. Then we're going to go into the shadows and tones. Bring the shadows up a little bit and the tones down a little bit. Then the image is looking a little bit dark for me. So I'm going to bring the exposure up a bit, come into white balance. I haven't really decided yet how I'm going to do this. I think let's go a little bit warmer again, send in some pink, go for like a filmic vibe. Then we're going to go into our color tools, come straight into hue, saturation, and luminance again. Let's go for the greens this time. Bring that saturation up nicely. Maybe bring the blues. Down a bit and we're also going to send them more towards the green and lighten that sky up quite a bit. That's the before. That's the after so far split toning for this one. I definitely want to bring some cream. We already colors into those highlights. Yeah, that orange is good for me. Then the shadows, we're going to go something opposite. Maybe something blue or maybe the magenta. That's quite nice. Now, it's starting to look a little bit light. Now, I'm actually going to go back into the exposure. Bring it down a little bit more, back into the tones, bring back some of those high light shadows. I might just increase the overall saturation a little bit. Then going to go to effects and add a little bit of grain, not too much. That's the before and that is the after. Before we log off, we're going to do one more this time. We're going to edit this photo that I took in Wales and start again with the horizon, the horizons pretty straight. I took this quite straight. Anyway, we're going to brighten it up a little bit, add a bit of contrast, make it a little bit darker. Then I want to really go for that blue hour fibe. So we're going to find that white balance. Really send that into the blues. Add a bit of purple into then in the highlights, We're going to bring those highlights down to soften the image. That's the before, that's the after so far. Come into the HSL. Let's see what we can do with these blues. Want to saturate it too much? Let's maybe change the hue and send it slightly into purple and desaturate it a little bit. I think this is going to look a little bit better if I underexpose it a bit more and then use the tones to bring up some of those shadows slightly. Then I'm going to add a highlights in. Just to contrast all this blue, we're going to go in with a bit of orange in that sky shadows, I'm probably going to leave the same. I don't really want to add anything. We'll just leave that the same. But that is the that is after. But that is my introduction to Visco. It's my favorite editing app for my phone. It's the one I use almost daily, You know, whether it is to edit my holiday photos or photos that I take just as I'm walking about to put on my Instagram story or to post on my personal Instagram or, you know, just have a snapshot of what I'm doing in everyday life. I'm going to put some photos on screen now of photos that I have edited using Visco throughout the years and some of my favorite photos. And I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys have created throughout the course of this class. So remember to upload your projects to the class project gallery. And I will take a look at them and see the wonderful creations that you no doubt have made. If you need any help, of course, just drop me a little note in the discussion and I will be sure to help you out. But this is a really fun tool. I think photo editing in general is a really fun and powerful tool to enhance your photos. It's something I really enjoy. It's a really important part of my job as a photographer. Play around with colors, to play around with exposure, to manipulate them, and to create an image that I really, genuinely like. So head out with your phone, take some photos, edit them with this, go and see how you get on. Thank you guys so much for watching this class. I hope you enjoyed it. And as ever, I am really looking forward to seeing what you guys create.