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1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. I'm excited to welcome you to my mobile
photo editing course. I'm Shubam and I have been
doing photography since 2016 using both my
smartphone and my DSLR. Over the years, I've
realized something. No need professional camera or expensive software to create professional
looking results. You can get amazing photos
right out of your smartphone, as long as you know
how to edit them well. That is exactly what
this course is about. I'm going to teach you how you can edit your photos
professionally, right from your smartphone. Using free applications. We'll be working with iPhones
in built photo editor, Snapseed, WISCO, and
Lightroom mobile. You'll learn how to edit with intention and not just
apply filters blindly. I want you to feel confident in editing any of
these applications, whether you want a
more natural look or a more stylized
Instagram friendly vibe. By the end of this course, you will have a
strong understanding of editing fundamentals, and you will be able
to create yourself a fantastic editing workflow. I can't wait to
see what you guys create after this course.
Let's get started.
2. Apple Photos App. Is it any good?: First module is about editing your photos using the iPhone's
inbuilt photo editor. You don't always need
fancy new applications to edit your photos. In fact, most of the photos
that I have taken in the past using an iPhone have been edited within
the Photos app. Now, without wasting any time, let's get into the app. You just click on an image and the three lines three
dotted lines on the bottom, click on it and you will
enter the Photos app. First setting that you will
see is the auto adjustment. Let's start with the basics, and one by one, I will also explain what everything means. At the bottom, you will
see an auto button. This automatically
adjust your photos based on what the iPhone
thinks looks good. I don't think it's a
decent starting point for your photo because it does it does not do any service to you probably
for most of the photos. I think all it
does, it increases the contrast a little bit. And recovers the
shadows a little bit. I think you can
do it on your own a lot better than
what the iPhone does. Next is exposure. Exposure controls how bright
or dark your photo is. If your photo is too dark, increasing the
exposure can help, but be careful because
increasing the exposure too much can blow out your
highlights completely. Brilliance. This is
unique to the iPhone. It increases the brightness in dark areas without affecting the bright areas too
much highlights. Controls the brightest
parts of your image. If the sky or a white object or white wall looks completely
blown out in the image, you can reduce the highlights
to bring some details back. Shadows affects
the darker areas. Lifting shadows can help recover details
from the shadows, as the name suggests. Again, pushing it too far can
make the image look flat. Contrast increases
the difference between your light
and your dark areas. In other words, it brightens your bright areas and darkens the dark
areas of the image. Adding contrast can make
your photos feel punchier, but hold your horses and be careful because this is a setting that many
people mess up. And if you add too
much contrast, your photos will look
terrible most of the time. Brightness. This is almost
the same as exposure, but slightly softer,
Black point. This deepens the darkest part of your image or makes it
brighter saturation. It controls the overall
intensity of the colors. This is a setting that you
need to keep in mind to not over because a lot of people overdo saturation and it results in terrible
looking images, vibrans. It works like saturation, but only on the dull
and muted colors. I personally prefer vibrance
over saturation for most of my editing,
warmth or temperature. Adjust these if the photo feels too cool or too warm tint. It is useful if the skin or white surfaces
look off in a photo. You will not need this
adjustment every time, only if the skin tones look off or any of the white
surfaces look off. Or your color grading. Sharpness, definition,
and noise reduction. I don't touch these
settings at all, and I recommend you
don't touch them either. Only use them for
low light photos. You can increase the
sharpness a little bit, add a little bit
of noise reduction because it is only useful
for low light photos. Over sharpening can make
your photos look fake. Vignette, vignette. It makes your image borders either brighter or darker
depending on what you want. One thing I want
to emphasize here is each and every
photo is different. Each and every photo will
require different adjustment. Some photos will require
you to brighten them, and some photos will
require you to darken them. Editing is about
looking at a photo and figuring out what
does this photo need? I also want to point
out that less is more. Try making smaller
adjustments at first and step back to
see the bigger picture. If you tap on the photo once, you can see what it looks
like looked like before. You can also see the before and after comparison this way. You can also copy and
paste your edits. You can just click
go on a photo, click on the three dots
and copy edits from there, and you can go on any
of the image you want. Click on the three dots
again, paste Edits. The Photos app has in
built filters as well. I personally love using filters because they can give your
photos a beautiful look. If you do use them, reduce the filter strength for
a more subtle look. You can also crop or rotate your photos within the
Photos app like this. If you have edited a photo in the Photos app and
you do not like the edit study you've
done and you want to revert back to the
original photo, this is how you can do.
3. Snapseed - : Hello, everyone, and welcome
to the second module. This is where I'm switching to the smartphone completely
because the rest of the applications
are slightly more advanced and need a
more hands on approach. This is where we are
diving into one of my favorite free
editing apps, Snaps. Snapseed is available on
both iPhone and Android, and it's super powerful
for mobile editing. The best part is it's
completely free and gives you tools that feel
almost professional. In this module, I'm
going to show you a basic editing workflow and snapseed that you can
use on any photo. Let's open the Snapseed
app and see what we get. Tap anywhere to open the photo. Let's open this landscape. There are some filters here, completely useless, by the way, I don't like snapseed
filters at all because they don't
look good at all. They're pretty basic, and I think they do more
harm than good. Hop over to tools. Tools. The first is tune image. Brightness, you're already
familiar contrast, saturation, ambience. Ambience is brilliance
from the photospp. It works exactly the same. Reduces your bright areas and brightens your dark
areas at the same time. Most people don't like
the increased look. I mean, photo editing
is subjective, and everyone likes
different things. I reduce it for most of
my personal editing, but then again, that's my taste. Let's reduce it slightly. So we focus more
on the light here. Brightness, I think,
increase it a little bit. Contrast makes the image
a little more punchy. I want to focus on the light, the light dark areas. For example, the mountains. So part of it is under shadows, some are under highlights. I want to emphasize on that. For that, I want to increase the contrast here. Highlights. You can reduce the
highlights to reveal more details from the clouds
or your bright areas. But this particular image, let's reduce the
highlights a bit. You can click on the top right to reveal
before and after, tap and hold to
reveal the before, leave it, and it shows you
what you're working with. You can also click on
the image as well. Tap and hold on the image to
reveal the before and after. Next up will be shadows. Shadows. I personally want
to reduce the shadows. I think we have already
done a decent job. Warmth, as you
know, what it does. Now, if you look
at the bottom row, this is just the
visibility button X. You can also see the
histogram, which again, I don't think many people
use histogram a lot. Warmth highlights and
this magic button. If you click on it, it
automatically adjust your image. And see it automatically
adjusted my image. Now, I don't like
this look personally, just cross, and let's hop
over to the next setting. Details details is
structure and sharpening. You can increase them or reduce them again, based on the image. If you go for a softer look, you can reduce them
to go for a softer, more dreamy look
or or increase it like this to go for
a over edited look. Again, again, I have
increased them too much, and I think increase
them slightly. Whenever you're editing
structure of the image, zoom out completely, and
now you edit the structure. Whenever you're
editing, sharpening, zoom into the image, and now it just sharpening so you can see the overall
effect it has on your details. Don't go too crazy with it. For most of the images, I
don't even add anything. For structure, for most
of my images, again, I reduce it to give
a more dreamy, softer look, but again,
it's personal taste. Now, then hop on
to the next tool. Curves. Curves are the most
advanced tool in Snapsd and the one I use personally all the
time for color grading. There are a lot of filters here. Color filters. Again,
you can try them. Some of them look good.
They're also you can also edit those filters
individually like this. Let's hop over again. Soft contrast, hard
contrast, brighten, dark and faded, and a
lot of them filters. Let's create our own
look from scratch first, and then I'll talk about how you can edit established filters. You click on the circle
on the left, RGB. This affects all the channels, red, green, and blue. Your image is made of three
colors, red, green, and blue. This affects all three of them. This affects mostly
the brightness. So also curve editing is
a little more advanced, so I highly recommend
you to practice before going for it
in your final images. Ideally, an S shaped
curve works the best. All it does it adds more contrast to the image when look at the
before and after. The difference is crazy and
immediately noticeable. You can also add just the
midpoint like this click to add a point and always be subtle when you're
dealing with the curves. Don't go too crazy. Don't go too crazy with it. Otherwise, you
have a high chance of making your image
look terrible. Now, if you click on the
individual colors here, red, you will edit
only the red color. Lowering the curve point
means reducing that color. If you lower this curve, you are reducing the red color, which means you're adding bluer and green
shades to the image. You're adding more green. If you increase it like this, you are adding more reds. If you're adding it to a
lower point in the graph, you're adding it to the shadows. If you do adding it to a
higher point in the image, you're adding it
to the highlights. Again, this is a setting
I personally love. It is very complicated to use, but I love using them. I want to add some green to my shadows because
of the mountains, and a little bit here
and lit a bit there. Let's see the before and
after. Huge difference. You can edit the
curves for all three. They all work together green. Also, for example, if you
added multiple points here, but now you want to
get rid of the points, how do you get rid of the
points I tap and hold on a point and drag
it to the outside. If you drag it to the
outside, it gets deleted. Blue. If you reduce
blue, you get green. If you increase
blue, you get blue. So do you want to add anything blue to the
image? I don't think I do. And you can click on the e
to change the visibility. Now, if you look at
the next option, you will find white valence. In this particular photo, I don't think it needs
a lot of editing. I'm changing everything
here because I'm trying to show what impact it is
going to have on the image. You can click on AW for
auto white balance. You can click on the
center this adjustment. Icon to reveal tint and
temperature separately. You can also reveal the
tint and temperature by swiping up and
down on the image. Now you can click on
this eyedropper tool to reveal what point
would you like to select as the point that determines the white
balance of the photo, which means you click
on this tool and select and make sure the plus icon something
on that is white. I'm putting it on the clouds, so it's on the white properly, it changes a little
bit here and there. Click on the right
when you're satisfied. Next tool is the cropping tool. There are all the
popular ratios here, select any ratio that you want and click on
the right button. We're not going to do
that. This image rotate is swipe left or swipe right for
rotation or image rotation. You can also mirror the image
from the icon on the lower left and you can rotate
using the rotate button. Click wrong. Click the Ti
icon when you're satisfied. I click the wrong because I don't want to rotate
the image at all. Next is the perspective. Perspective is like this, if you're swiping
up, I'm swiping up. It changes the
entire perspective of the shot of how
the shot was taken. Again, don't edit too much because it has the tendency
of looking super weird. Again, look at how
incredible this looks. You can make subtle adjustments, and it will look real and you can adjust
your image a lot. You can also swipe left or swipe right for a
different look. It has multiple options, tilt, rotate, scale, and free form. Scale. It will auto fill
the remaining areas. You can also click on the magic button to
adjust it automatically. If you click on
the center button, there's smart, white and black. Smart, it fills it up
with imaginary details, and white or black
are the borders. Freeform is where
you're going to adjust all four corners
of the image separately. Again, this is a little too
advanced and you should only use it for
corrective purposes rather than artistic ones. Again, if you know
what you're doing, you can also use them
in an artistic manner. I'll click on wrong because I don't want this
edit on my photo. Let's go to the next
tool is Expand. Expand is another one
that is Hit and a miss, it will not always be a hit. For example, let's increase
the dimensions of the image. And you're able to increase the borders of the image
by creating new details. It uses repetitive
textures and patterns. It is not super good. I'm going to say it
is not super good, but it can be used
sporadically here and there. Expand. Now, one of my favorite tools is selective. Click
on the selective. Now you can make
selections based on color. For example, I want to
brighten the clouds, but only the clouds
and nothing else. Select the cloud.
You can drag it to make a more accurate
selection of color. It will affect the
color, basically. So select a middle
color so you select the entire gamut, leave it, and now you can pinch to reduce or increase
the area it affects. You can affect brightness, contrast, saturation
and structure. Through structure, you can enhance the details
and contrast. Reduce it. I only
want to brighten the clouds but only
slightly, not much. Contrast, you can
increase it slightly. Saturation I don't want to. I want to reduce
it a little bit. Structure. I want
to reduce it for a dreamier look click on right. You can also adjust. You can click on the plus
button to have another spot. This time, I want to
adjust the mountain. I want to adjust the
bright green colors, make them brighter so we can get more contrast
out of the image. Click plus again, and I want to reduce I want to
darken the dark areas. So you just reduce the
brightness, click on right, see the before and after,
dramatic, dramatic change. Let's go to tools, and
let's go to the next one. Next one is a brush tool, Dodge and burn exposure,
temperature, and saturation. You can just rub the brush again and again for the impact. Click on wrong again.
Let's start again. Brush. You need to zoom in to
use the brush properly. You can also use the
temperature brush. For example, see the Snapseeds
app is pretty advanced, it's going to take me I
think four to 5 hours to explain the app completely. I might gloss over a few things that I'd like
you to explore on your own. I think this is one of them. Exposure setting and you can increase the exposure of
the sky using the brush. I personally prefer
the selective tool more rather than
using the brush tool. Click Wrong healing tool, one of the best tools
of the entire app. You can just zoom
in, for example, this black dot, I
don't like this. You click on the black
dot, and it's vanished. I don't like this car. You tap and drag it, and it goes away. You can also click
on the Undo button. If you miss click or something, you can tap to remove
small small details. You need to just zoom
in the image and go cleaning mode to remove
stuff you don't like. To make a cleaner image. Click on right, let's
move on to the next one. Ns blur is a fantastic option. You can drag this to the
area you want to focus on. Let's focus on the mountain, pinch or pinch in a pinch out to make the focus
area smaller or bigger, drag up or down to strength, renthnlur transition
or vignette strength. You don't need vignette. Transition to make the
transition from blur to sharp. I like to keep this as
high as possible in the image and blood strength. I personally keep
it around 19, 20. I don't use them for
landscape images because it doesn't look good. Let's just click on wrong. Vignette. You can add a
vignette on your image. You can also adjust the size of the vignette out of brightness. You can also increase
the brightness. Double exposure. You can add an image here. It is a very complex
sort of thing. Lighten, darken,
subtract, overlay. It is a crazy tool. I have never used it properly,
but I think you can. Text you can add
text to your image. Just add whatever it is and double tap to
change the text. Just write whatever you
want, click on Okay. You can also adjust the opacity. You can also add a
frame to your image. I know some people use them. I personally don't don't
think it looks that good, but to each their own. Now, to export this, click on Export and save a copy. Create a copy with changes
that you can undo. Save a copy and export are basically the same thing
when it comes to IOS. But when you click on Save, it or overwrites
your original photo. Something I don't think
you should do at all. Always save a copy. Now, let's open up a portrait shot to see
what we can do with it. Click on open open. Let's edit this
portrait here slightly. If you click on portrait
here, smooth, spotlight. There are some lighting
options here and there. Not really pretty, to be honest. I think this looks fine. There are just filters here. You can also click on
the face spotlight, skin smoothening, just
some AI based things. And if you go to head pose, can drag up and down to change the direction
of the face slightly. Again, it can look weird. Pupil size. Let's zoom in and
see if it changes anything. A lot of times these
effects are rather subtle. Smile. Oh my God, it is creepy. It looks very creepy, to be honest, but it can
work for some people. Focal length. People look better with
higher focal length, so there is this option. I don't think these
are very useful now this is it for this module. Let's move on to
the next module. Oh, I just forgot one
small thing again. You can edit your
photos like this. You can create a preset as well. View edits, and if you click, no, let's edit
them a little bit. Let's increase the ambience. Let's warmth, click
on the right. You click on the top right, click on View Edits, and click on the
three dots, copy now. Open another image.
Let's open this one. You click on the
top right again, view edits and you can insert the edits that you have
copied from the past image. In a way, it is
like a preset Now, that is it for this module. I hope you liked it, and let's move on to
the next module.
4. VSCO: Now as for this module, we are covering
editing with Visco. Visco is really well known
for their presets or filters that give photos a
certain mood or aesthetic. If you've ever seen Instagram
photos with soft tones, vintage vibes or muted colors, chances are they were
edited with Visco. Let's start. Let's
open up the app. Personally, I don't recommend paying for the Visco app
because it is not worth it, but to each their own. Click on the plus icon
to import a photo. Let's edit. This vintage. I think it is the
Rajasthans City Palace, or the puts City Palace rather. So let's see. Click
on Edit Image. And there are 15 to 20 filters that you can apply
on your image, pick whichever one you think enhances the mood and
vibe of your image. What do you want to
highlight in the image? I want to highlight
the vintage vibe and vintage architecture
in the shot. And more often than not, yellow color is used. I think the first
filter looks okay. Let's see more filters on what highlights the yellows more and gives us a
more vintage look. You can click on the filter again to adjust the intensity. And there are tons and tons of paid filters
in the app as well. But we will only use the
free ones for this tutorial. There are two, three black
and white filters as well. I like this one a little bit. And you can reduce the intensity of the
filter, click on write. And there are not many editing
options within the app. Actually, Visco for me and for most people is a
secondary editing app. First, you do all
the color correction in your image using
Snapseed, iPhones, default photo editing app, or light room or any other app, and then you come into the Visco for the final
touch, that is a filter. I think this looks okay. This looks okay too. W L. You can also see more examples from the filter what type of photos look good
with the filter. I think this looks okay. Now, you can adjust, click on adjust,
and you can rotate. You can skew like this. Exposure. Contrast, even highlights and shadows are behind a paywall, which I think is pretty
dumb, in my opinion. Saturation, white balance, HSL, which we will cover
in light room. HSL is one of the only settings that Snapseed lacks to
make it a complete app. Even clarity and grain are
locked behind a paywall. There are not much you can do. You can click on skin tone
to adjust the skin tone. Now. This is like HSL
for yellow and oranges. That's it. That's all this is. All Visco has is its filters. That's it. Remove is
experimental blur is, again, hidden behind a paywall. I genuinely do not recommend
pay for Visco at all. The only thing WISCO is, it's the last touch to an image using filters,
and that's it. To export your image, just click on the top right and click Save to camera roll. You can also click
on post to WISCO. WISCO is like Instagram
a social media as well, so you can post it there too. I will just click on
Save to camera roll. The image is saved now. That is it for this module. There's not much to
whisko to be very honest. Let's move on to the
app that has a lot now.
5. Lightroom Mobile: Come to module number five. In this module, we're diving
into Lightroom mobile, one of the most powerful
free editing apps that you can use on your phone. Most professional
photographers that you see on Instagram definitely
swear by Adobe Lightroom. So let's just open the app
and see what greets us. If you have edited
any previous photos, you will find them here. We want to import new photo. This is freshly
installed on my phone. Let's edit this
portrait for now. You can zoom in, and
if you click on Auto, it automatically
adjust just like the iPhones app and just
like other applications. I recommend people to not do it. Again, if you're a beginner, if you're short
on time, you can, but most of the
time, you will do a better job than
auto adjustment. So let's remove that again, you click on it
and it's removed. Now, if you click on the
button in the middle right next to the editing button
is the cropping button. Here you can rotate
your image like this. I think the image is
already pretty straight. We don't need to rotate it much, and there are your
aspect ratios. Instagram stories will
be nine into 16 and Instagram post will
be four by five. There is log straighten. It will straighten
automatically using AI. You can also flip your photo
horizontal and vertical. First, let's talk about
editing the light. You click on the light, and here is your light
panel exposure, contrast, highlights,
shadows, whites, blacks. There is also an option
to edit in HDR mode. This is high dynamic range mode. I don't think you should
edit in HDR mode ever. Most HDR content will look
terrible on non HDR displays. Again, most iPhones these days have HDR displays and
most Android phones, too, but the tuning
is different. So in some phones, your content will look better, and in some, your
content will look trash. So I don't think you
should take that risk. So we'll edit in normal mode, and I think you should, too. So these are all your
normal setting exposure, contrast, highlights,
shadows, whites and blacks. So let's edit this a tiny bit. I think it deserves a
little bit of an edit. And if you tap and
hold on the image, you can see the
before and after. To remove this panel here to remove the
light panel from here, click on Light again, and you
can see the entire image. Now see before and after
before after before, after. We just increased the
brightness and contrast. Now, again, click
on the Light panel, and there are curves
here as well. Click on the curve. This
is your overall RGB curve. That handles contrast. Generally, we use
three point system. This is your shadows,
the lower left one. This is the mid tones, and on the top are
the highlights. You increase the contrast
in the highlights and you decrease bring the shadows
down to create contrast. If you see the before
and after, again, it is a dramatic change so far. Let's tone down the
highlights a bit. Again, curves require a little
bit of precision to work. And at the tone end, you can crush the
details completely, crush the black portions. Again, it generally does
not look that good, especially if you go
overboard like this. But subtlety is the key here whenever you're
using curves. You can also go for the
faded Instagram look. You can also like this. Again, I don't think
it looks that good, so we will not do that. Now, there are red, green, and blue channels as well
for advanced color grading, we will hampered at here. But I want to teach
you one thing here. For example, if you added all these points and you
just edit it like this. Okay. So you have effectively ruined your
image what to do now. If you click Done, this
edit will be done. But you click on the Undo button here and undo the curves. You can also redo a
previous edit like this. Now, another thing
in the tone curve, if you want to remove
a point in Snap seat, what we did was we dragged the point outside
and it vanished. It does not work like that here. Here, what you need to
do is you double tap on any point to reduce
it to remove it, not reduce it to remove it. Now there are all these curves. Let's just click on Done
because we are done here. Now, let's move on
to the color tab. In color tab, you can change this photo to black and white. I will not do that here, and you have the
temperature picker. You just click on
the dropper tool and pick white area
in your image. Again, it does not work
on all images as well. So these are all your
temperature settings. You can increase the warmth, increase the tint, and reduce the vibrance to create
a beautiful color grade. Just look at this. I think
the color grade looks nice. Pretty simple color grade
is warm your photo, add a little bit of a tint. You can go in either direction. I think pink suits more here
because of the skin tone, and then you can
reduce the vibrance to give a beautiful look. Now, let's move on to something
a little more advanced. If you click on grading here, these are your
shadows, mid tones, and highlights, and these
are global adjustments. Global affects the entire image. You just drag this slider. If you go outside the circle or on the
edge of the circle, you will have most saturation as described on the
top of the image. Saturation, reduce
the saturation and you can control
the hue from here. I think this looks the best. Click on Done. You will do the exact same thing for
highlights and shadows. I think the edit so far
has been wonderful. Let's go to Light panel
and increase the contrast a tiny bit again. Increase the highlights. I think the contrasts. I think the contrast
looks really incredible. Now there are some tools
like blur. You can try it. I think it looks terrible, and there is nothing
much to teach here because it's still in Vita. Now, click on Effects. And there are grain. You can add grain to your image. You can increase the
size of the grain. Click on Effects again to
remove it from the panel. You zoom in to see check
for details properly. Grain reduces the detail a lot. Oh, grain reduces
the detail a lot, but I think it can give off
a vintage look to the image. We don't want that, so
let's just remove it. You can also adjust your
vignette from here. I don't think vignette. I don't like the look of vignette or be very,
very subtle with it. Now, you can go into effects, and there is texture that improves the
sharpness of your image. The overall texture
increases minute detail. There's clarity that
focuses on contrast. I think these are all pretty terribly terrible
options for skin. Dehaze, I love
dehaze as an option because a lot of times there are situations that we as photographers
cannot control. One of the situations is haze. If there is haze
in the background, you can increase D haze to get clearer
details in the shot. And if you and if
you reduce dehaze, you will get a foggy look. Again, it does not work
in this particular image, it does not look good, so
we will just remove it. Also, if you have increased it and you want to
get it back to zero, you can just double
tap on the name. I double tap on dehaze, the word dehaze, and
it sets back to zero. I think I'll add D has Now, if you see the before and after, it is a dramatic,
dramatic change. Again, I'm not going for
hardcore color accuracy. I'm going for an artistic. Now, click on Edit again, and now is the detail panel. You can reduce color
noise from here. Again, most phones these days don't have a lot of color noise. Noise reduction,
you will only use noise reduction in
low light photos. You zoom in as much as you can, and then you do noise reduction. Again, you look at how soft the image becomes when
you do noise reduction. Inside noise reduction,
this detail panel means, how much detail do
you want to recover? If I put it to zero, this is a blob of an image. It looks AI generated. Now, you go into detail again. If you said it 200, very little noise
will be reduced. Most noise reduction will
not damage your image. Again, I think I don't
want to tamper with it. You can also apply sharpening. However, daylight
images generally don't require that much sharpening and over
sharpening can make your images look
terrible and fake. So let's remove this panel, and let's focus on optics. Here you have two options. Remove chromatic aberration
and enable lens correction. If you have taken a photo with a wide angle lens and you have the fish eye effect or your
edges are warb in that image, you can enable
lens correction on that image to see some effect. And chromatic aberration
is something that happens mostly with DSLR images
or low light images. These are small tiny
artifacts in the image. You can remove them
from this option. Next up are profiles. There are filters here
which you can use. There are a lot of
filters to choose from. I don't I think the
filters are okay. At best, they're not
super interesting. There are a lot of black and white and monochromatic
options here. Pick whichever one you like. This is a slide that you can
use to adjust the intensity. Oh, boy, this is horrible. Click and wrong, and that's
it for the editing part. Now the masking tool and
remove tool are paid, and since I'm focusing on free virgins in this course,
we will not cover those. Now, there is Actions button. If you click on it, it's kind
of like the auto button, but for other settings as well. And if you click on presets, there are premium
presets. Adaptive sky. You can replace the entire sky, Adaptive blur backgrounds
and portraits. These are all paid presets. If you click on yours, these are all the basic options. If you click on anything. These are just presets. I don't think this one
looks all that nice. Again, if you want,
you can use them. I don't think they look
that good. So that's it. I think we have done a decent
job editing this photo. Again, I believe this does look slightly
over edited to me. Here's how I'll fix it. It looks a little too dark, I think. It's increased exposure a bit and reduce the
contrast from here. Now, let's see. I think
this looks much better. There is one panel I
forgot to mention. If you go to color, we
covered the grading part, shadows Midtones, highlights
in the global adjustment, we've already made
adjustments using this. There is color mix here. If you click on Color Mix, this is HSL panel. If you select any
color from here, for example, let's
select orange. You can change the orange
color to some extent. Again, don't go
overboard with it because it has a
tendency to look crazy. Let's just add a little bit, make it slightly towards red. You can also increase or
decrease the saturation. Again, don't go crazy with. And you can double tap
any option to reset it. And luminance is brightness, if you want to increase or
decrease the brightness. Let's not go crazy with it, increase the brightness just a little bit to make
the subject pop. And this circle icon, if you click on the circle, icon if you click on the circle icon. Now, if you click
on the circle icon and drag anywhere
across the image, you can edit that
particular color. For example, I want
to edit the green. You tap and hold and
drag upwards bottom. Now, to edit the grass, for example, you want to
edit the grass color. Now, there is
another option here, which again, this is slightly more automated
options, so I do not use it. But you can use it. This small circle you
see next to color mix. You click on it and you drag up or down to change the hue of any
color that you want. For example, we'll change
the color of the grass, tap, tap and hold on the
grass and now drag up to change the hue and drag down to change the
hue to something else. For example, this
yellowish color, I don't think it
looks that good. I think the slide green was the better one
because our subject was standing out a lot. And you can also
increase the greens. Now, we're not increasing the
saturation with this tool. We're only changing the hue. I think this looks
too artificial. So let's just slightly
yellowish tone. I think it looked fine before. So you disable it and set things back to normal and
remove this panel. I think this is a
fine image now. Now, if you want to
export this image, click on the three
dots on the top right, save a copy to device. Can also create your own preset. For example, this is all the
editing that I have done. You can click on the three
dots, create preset, name whatever preset and select which editings
would you like to select. And then click on
the right button, we will not save this
preset right now, and let's just save
the copy to device. Lightroom mobile
is an app that I want you to experiment
with as much as you can. This is a phenomenal app. For example, look at
this before and after. This is a dramatic change with the image that did not take that much hard
work, to be honest. Again, it might take longer
than Snapseed or WISCO, especially, but
you'll be amazed at how much control you
have of your image. In the next module, we'll cover some editing tips and choosing
the right app for the job.
6. Final Tips & Common Mistakes to avoid: In this module, I want to leave you with some final
editing tips, common mistakes to avoid, and guidance on choosing the
right app for each photo. Tip number one, don't over edit. One of the biggest
mistakes I see people is going too far with contrast,
saturation or clarity. A great edit should feel natural like an enhanced
version of reality, not a totally fake one. Tip number two, do as much
as you can in camera. Good lighting,
clean composition, and sharp focus will make
editing easier and faster. Editing can't fix a poorly
shot photo completely. Tip number three, zoom
in before exporting. Always zoom in and check for unwanted spots or distractions
you missed before saving. You might need to use the healing tool or
crop something out. Keep copies of originals. Never overwrite your
original photos. Always save your edited
photo as a new copy. You might want to re edit it later with a different style. Now, if you're
wondering, which app should you select when
you're editing photos, should you use Snapseed, Visco, light room or the inbuilt
photo editing app? Here's a simple
guide. Snapseed is best for spot fixing
and selective edits. It is great for travel
photos where you want to clean up distractions or
brighten a specific area. Now, Visco. I think
you should only use Visco for a specific vibe or
aesthetic and it's filters. That's it. Visco doesn't have
that much editing tools, and most of Visco is paid, but I think the filters
are still worth it. Lightroom mobile. It is best for maximum control
on your image because it has HSL and pretty advanced color
grading options. It is great if you want to build a professional or
polished Instagram feed or if you need precise
color adjustments. Again, just like
most photographers don't stick to just
one application. First, edit in Snapseed, then apply a Visco filter, or do all adjustments
in light room, then fine tune with
Snapseeds healing tool. There is no right or wrong here. It depends on your
photo and your style.
7. Bonus! Create beautiful collages: Now I have a little bit
of a bonus for you. Here's how you can
create a collage using In shot for
better storytelling. Let's open the I shot app. Also using this method, you can create content
from horizontal images. See, because of Instagram, most people have stopped taking horizontal
images altogether, but I don't think that
should be the case. I think you should
use horizontal images as well because we as humans, see the word horizontally. So here's how to create collage
using horizontal images, and the collage will be vertical or square, whichever you prefer. I prefer vertical. Let's create a vertical collage.
Click on collage. There is AI blend,
stitching, grid. I personally prefer the grid. So let's go for this one. Grid. Now, these are
two images that I have. They're both horizontal images, let's go. If you click on right. Now, this as an image
looks good as well. You can use this as a collage. Let's click on Canvas. I want to do a four is
to five Instagram edit. Now, if I posted
this as a photo, even this looks nice. Let's click on Layout. You get a lot of layout
options. This looks okay. I think the standard
layout looks nice, too, like this one. You can swap the
positions as well. I don't think it looks as good. Now, this looks still nice. You can also swap,
flip, rotate, crop. You can even replace it
or you can delete it. You can also have borders around the image for a more
aesthetic look. You can also round it like this. I don't think it looks good
in this particular case. You can also edit this for Instagram stories by
doing nine is to 16. Now, if you click on an image, you can adjust the Zoom here. If you just click, you can adjust for Zoom. You can fit or fit the
image like this and just click right and you can drag them up or
down if you want. I think it looks nice. You can also apply filters
here, from in shot. So the two images that
you had that you had selected here look
part of the same shot. Reduce the intensity like this. I think it looks nice. Now, you can also adjust
the entire image. If you click on any image, you can adjust the exposure, contrast, warmth,
tint, saturation. There's also curves
here as well, shadows and there are a lot and lot of
options here as well. So you can edit your image
within the in shot app. I however recommend you to
edit your images in light room or Snapseed using
your own preset. Now, you can create your own preset and then
apply on your own image. So you can do that as well. That will be way
easier, to be honest. If you click on the top right, this image will now be exported. Now you can change ratios. You can select the Zoom level. You can also adjust
the background. The background can be
this image blurry. It looks nice for story purpose, and you can select any
color that you want. Let's pick a shade of blue. Now, again, I know I'm not doing a great
job editing this, but there are a lot of
options here that you can select select patterns
like this one. Wow. There are a lot of options that you can tinker around with. Again, I like to
keep things simple. This the only reason we
have ended up creating this abomination is because I wanted to show you what
you can do with it. Select the ratio of
four is to five. Now, if you want to create
a nine is to 16 image, I recommend three images, or both the images
should be square proper. Zoom in. Let's go
to Canvas, Zoom, and Zoom properly, so it
looks more professional. And after you export this, you can apply the filter
on the entire collage. So it looks more in
tune, just like this. This is your collage right here. Let's export this one. Now, it's saved in our gallery. So this is our collage. You click on Edit, you
click on filter and apply the same filter
on the collage, whichever one looks good. I think this looks nice. Yeah, this looks nice. So let's just edit the
filter to some intensity, and I think this looks nice
for Instagram sharing. This is the version
we have created to upload on our
Instagram story, the nine is to 16. You can also create a version for posting an Instagram post. Now, you can also draft
horizontal images here, vertical images here as well. You can click on any image. You can pinch to zoom
in to zoom out as well. One tip that I want to
give you with this and the entire course that
we just did experiment. Don't feel stuck in one
look, try different presets, adjust colors creatively and
have fun finding your style.
8. Outro: Thank you so much for joining me in this mobile photo
editing course. I hope you're walking away feeling more
confident, creative, and excited to edit your photos
right in your smartphone. But please remember editing
is just part of the process. The process of taking good photos begins in your
camera or your smartphone. And I have created a dedicated mobile
photography course, as well. Please check out my
profile for that. I will be uploading more
photography courses like product photography using your smartphone and a few
more courses are on the way. Please check them out.
Thanks for watching.
Shubham Jain
