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Mobile Photo Editing: Start Editing Like a Pro With Snapseed

teacher avatar Mario Guimarey, Photo | Video | Youtube | Editing

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Snapseed Masterclass

      1:02

    • 2.

      Introduction

      1:28

    • 3.

      Why Learn To Edit In A Mobile Device

      1:51

    • 4.

      RAW Photos vs JPG Photos

      1:44

    • 5.

      Importing Raw Files

      6:33

    • 6.

      Introduction To Snapseed

      7:39

    • 7.

      Tools Part 1

      11:13

    • 8.

      Tools Part 2

      12:25

    • 9.

      Tools Part 3

      11:48

    • 10.

      Tools Part 4

      6:22

    • 11.

      Tools Part 5

      6:32

    • 12.

      Tools Part 6

      13:24

    • 13.

      Tools Part 7

      8:43

    • 14.

      Exporting our Photo

      2:10

    • 15.

      Let's edit a landscape

      10:10

    • 16.

      Let's edit a Portrait

      10:59

    • 17.

      Full Editing Moody Dark

      9:52

    • 18.

      Project For The Course

      0:20

    • 19.

      Conclusion

      0:33

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About This Class

In this course, you will learn how to edit photos like a Pro just with your smartphone or tablet using an incredible app called Snapseed.

Snapseed is an app from Goggle that has everything you need to create amazing editings and it is completely free.

For this course you will only need a phone or a tablet and the Snapseed app that you can install it in IOS and Android devices.

Skills you will learn:

  • Why it is important to learn how to edit with your mobile device

  • Understand the layout of Snapseed

  • How to use every single tool in the app

  • ·Importance of using the tone curve and how to use it properly

  • Selective edits

  • Saving and exporting your pictures to have them ready to share

  • And more...

I want to remind you that this course is going to be updated all the time. If something new comes with the Snapseed app, I will be making new lessons and if you would like me to make specific lessons for you, just let me know to help you with that as well.

Now it is time for you to get your mobile device, install the app and I will see you in class.

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Mario Guimarey

Photo | Video | Youtube | Editing

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Hello, My name is Mario. I was born in Lima, Peru and since I was 18 years old I've been traveling around the world working in cruise lines. I found my love for PHOTOGRAPHY and VIDEOGRAPHY watching the beautiful scenarios that the world has for us.

I started to study PHOTOGRAPHY online as well as VIDEOGRAPHY and I opened my first YOUTUBE channel to share my adventures with family and friends, but something happened...

Many people around the world started to watch and comment my videos, that was so exiting that I wanted to make more videos and with better quality.

I kept studying but now, it was the turn of SOFTWARE, Premier Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.

After Years of editing videos and photos, learning more and more about YOUTUBE and social ... See full profile

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1. Snapseed Masterclass: Hello, My name is Mario and I'm a travel photographer and a blogger. And I designed this course for people who want to learn how to edit amazing and professional photos on the goal with your smartphone or your tablet. Let me tell you that as a travel photographer, I'm always on a plane, on a train, on a bias or any other way of transportation. And most of the time is not comfortable to open the laptop to edit our pictures. Sometimes I just want to post what I just captured on social media. Animal way device is always dissolution. Snapseed is a very complete application and it has enough tools to create professional editing. In this course, I will teach you everything you need to know about this amazing application that you can actually use in both Android and iOS devices will go through every single tool in the application. And by the end of the course we will have full editing sessions. So you can see my workflow and start creating yours. The goal of this course is for you to understand the application in a way that you can start creating your own style. Are you ready to start editing like a pro? Then I'll see you in class. 2. Introduction: Hello again and welcome to the course. Mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets nowadays are becoming so powerful that way then you can actually edit photos and even videos in a professional level. My name is Mario and I'm a travel photographer and a travel blogger from Peru, currently living in Slovenia. But most of the time I'm on the road. And let me tell you that half of my pictures nowadays are edited in my smart phone or my tablet. In this course, we will learn everything we need to know about Snapseed, which is one of the most popular applications used by professional photographers. And I divided this course in three sections to make it easier to follow. In the first section will have few lessons where I will explain you, why is it important for you to learn how to edit in a mobile device? I will explain you also the difference between row pictures and JPEG pictures actually snaps it is able to edit raw pictures as well. I will show you the layout of Snapseed and also how to import photos so we can start using the tools in section 2. And in section 2, we'll learn every single tool that we have in Snapseed and how to export our photos. In section 3, we will edit a few pictures together so you can actually see my workflow and have a better understanding on how to edit. So you can start creating your own style by the end of this course, you will know how to use every single tool in Snapseed so you can start creating amazing pictures. So now it's time to start with Section 1. 3. Why Learn To Edit In A Mobile Device: I've always saying that everyone should learn how to edit with their mobile device. And I keep saying mobile device because it could be your smartphone or could be your tablet. And actually in both, the editing process is exactly the same. But why is it so important to learn how to edit in your mobile device? Well, it's because that's the future. Let's talk about some point are going to explain this better. Everybody easy social media. Well, 99.9% of the people actually, my grandmother has a Facebook. If you want to stand out from others, posting pictures will get the job done. And now with applications like Snapseed, everything is much easier. Then we have the cameras. Nowadays, smartphones are coming with crazy cameras. Some of them are coming with 34 cameras, which proves that actually smartphones are the future and you don't want to be taking pictures with your smartphone, been transferred the pictures to the laptop or computer and then edit them and then post them when you can actually do everything with your mobile device. Now we have technology. Mobile devices are coming with such a powerful technology nowadays that allows you to edit photos in a professional level. They are like minicomputers and you have to take advantage of that convenience. You already have your smart phone in your pocket. So how convenient could be to learn how to do one more thing with it. Sometimes I'm in the bass or waiting for somebody, or even in the waiting room in a doctor's appointment, you could be already editing your photos. How convenient is that? I always thought that you don't have to be a professional to be doing the things properly. You don't need to pose regular photos, but you can actually be posting amazing ones. In the next lesson, I will explain you the difference between raw photos and J-P-E-G photo. 4. RAW Photos vs JPG Photos: For sure you heard about these files before, and it's very important for you to understand the difference. But first you have to understand that the pictures are made by the sensor. The light comes in the camera, then he's captured by the sensor and then you have your picture. But what happened? We JPG photos. The light comes into the camera is captured by the sensor and then the camera that file compress it, assuming what is the best for it, and makes a smaller file that is actually ready to post. On the other hand, raw files contain all the information captured by the sensor. And they are bigger files because they are not compressed by the camera. You have to edit the photo before you print it or posted. The good thing about raw files is that in the editing, you have all the information captured by the sensor. You have all the shadows, the highlights, details. And that gives you more possibilities for creativity in the editing process. Normally when you see a raw file is very flattering color, but don't worry, the colors are there. They're just waiting for you to edit them. Don't misunderstand me because you can edit JPEG photos and actually create incredible pictures. But with raw files, you have more possibilities in the editing process. Snaps it is able to edit RAW photos and that's why he's used by many professional photographers. Because basically professional photographers always shoot in RAW. If your camera takes raw photos or maybe your phone takes raw photos. In the next lesson, I will show you how to import them into Snapseed because you have to convert them into DAG files. But don't worry is very easy if you cannot take raw photos or maybe you just want to make it simpler and edit just JPG photos. You can skip the next lesson. So now let's go to the next lesson and I will show you how to import a raw file into Snapseed. 5. Importing Raw Files: It's not safe. It's able to edit DNG RAW photos. But don't worry if your camera doesn't take ENG photos because most of them don't. For example, Canon RAW photos are CR2, nikon raw photos are Lumix. Raw photos are our W2. So you got the point BAG. Raw files are smaller than regular raw files. They're like 15 to 20 percent smaller and they're easier to edit. And now I'm going to show you how to convert regular raw files into DNG files. Let's go to my tablet. So okay guy, so I'm using a tablet, but like I said before, you can actually use a cell phone is going to be exactly the same process. Okay, We're here with this knob seat. When you install it, you just open it. This is going to be a lesson about raw pictures and how to convert them. But from the next lesson, we're going to start to use properly and opposite. And I will explain you everything in detail about even these layout, that it's as soon as you open it, snaps it. But for now, I just want to show you something. If you want to open a picture, we're going to click here on the Plus button or here on the left corner you have open. And it's going to open basically what you have in your cell phone or tablet. In this case, it's already here in this folder that I have these pictures that were used in the course or some of them at least. So if I click here in the corner, you see it says, there you go. Here in these three lines, I am right now in Mario's tablet. This is my tablet because I'm Mario. And then also you have the SD card. You click, actually hearing Mario's tablet. This is what is going to open and I'm always very organized. I have here a lot of folders, but I have the folder here, does this practice? And of course, and this is the folder where I have all the pictures. This is my organization and I suggest you to do it because ADP or single editor has to be organized. Okay? If I want to open, for example, this picture, it says that it cannot open. Why? Because it's a raw picture and we have to convert it into DNG. All my gosh, what should we do? Okay, we press Okay, I understand. What we're going to do is to use another app just to convert our photos is really easy. So we're gonna go to the Play Store. If you're using an Apple device, you just go to the Play Store. It's the same thing. And we're going to put that this is very easy. What do we want to do to convert roll into DAG, right? So we're gonna put the name of the application role too with the number DNG. Really easy not to forget the name right? Then I already installed it, so we're just going to open it. Okay. In your case, you have to install it. It's for free, so don't worry, you install it and then you can hear and you open it. When you open the application is very easy because you can see basically what you have in your phone. Easy. Like I said before, I'm very organized, so I'm going to have if you come here, practice and course a, Suddenly the same folder. When you click it here, you can see your five pictures wrong, okay, you can see here the CR2, our W2, these are with Lumix and CO2 is with the canon. You want to combine them. You can click one by one here, check, check, check, or you can check here and check them all. You see here, these check you check them all. Okay. Now did you check them all? You can convert them into JPEG or the mg. We're going to convert them into DAG, okay, if we do it to JPEG, we're wasting the picture because already role has a lot of information. We have to go to DNG. We put DNG, as you can see, it's converting it, you see is duplicating the pictures and it's done, easy done. And then you can close that and come back to snaps it. Now when you press Plus or open, you're going to see the same folder. The red symbols here are the pictures that we cannot open, but we have these five that are already converted. That's pretty cool. So when we click here, it opens the picture to add it. We're not going to edit the pictures. We're going to do it from the next lesson. But to edit the pictures, you already have these options. You see white balance adjust. These are just for raw pictures. When we go to JPEG, the layout is different. So you have exposure, you can change your exposure. This week's a little bit, I don't use this much when I'm editing role. I tweak, just very little tweaks here because in the next lesson you will see exactly how do I, do you have more options in the next lesson? This is just the little things for the row picture. So I'm going to add a little bit of exposure here. And as you can see, if you click here on the bottom it says Adjust. You have all the options. Also you can get to the options you have you put your finger or if you're using a tablet with a pen, like in my case, you can scroll down and you can see them already there. And then when they are visible and you can see them, you can scroll up and you can go all the way to all of them. You cannot contrast, you can keep goin, you can go to shadows and all of these temperature, for example, it tells you that the temperature here is by 700 to Kelvin. Also, something else you can do is you can come to white balance and you can choose the white balance. This is a day, for example. So I put US shot because for me I think it's okay, but you can come to auto white balance. It changed just a little bit. Like I said, my white balance was perfect. So the change is just a little bit, but you can make it Sahni for example, or you can make it cloudy. You see how it's changing the white balance. It's up to you. Another thing that you can do with the white balance is clicking the color picker and you can go to one color that is flat like these, white, for example here. And that's the white balance is done. One thing that I will tell you is don't forget always to click here on the check mark. Because if you don't click here and you click in the x, everything you need is out, okay? So we're going to click in the x because we're not going to edit the picture yet. By the way, if you see this symbol here on the corner, don't get scared. This is to see how the picture was before and how it is now, okay, how it was before and how it is now. Also, you can do that by just touching the picture and releasing it. Okay, now we're going to click X and we go back. As you can see now the layer changed because it's not CDs, assuming that we did the little changes for the row picture. And now this is basically how it snaps. It looks like when you open a picture, if it's a JPEG or all of them. So now let's go to the next lesson where I will do an introduction to Snapseed and I will explain you all these layout, how it works before we start with the tool. 6. Introduction To Snapseed: Okay guys, if you're not using raw pictures and you're using David, you pictures. This is the screen of Snopes it, and this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna click here. There we go. We're going to choose the picture we want to add it. This is what it normally going to appear. You will go to the folder where you have your pictures. I will suggest you to be organized. So have a folder with all the pictures that you want to edit in the moment, then you edit them, save them somewhere else. I know it's a lot of work, but it's very good for an editor to be organized. Okay, we're going to pick your practice in course that is the folder that I'm using. And we're going to choose this picture over here. And this is what it's going to open if it's not broad picture. So I'm going to show you what all of these icons are four, you can see here on the corner open. With that, you can open another file. Of course. Now you have here these three little dots in the corner. We're going to start with this. Okay? When you click here is more options. You have tutorials and this is very nice because it's Nazi just going to give you some tutorials. Of course, you have the option of help and feedback. So you can actually ask for help if something happened with the application, but it never happened to me with years of experience with this application. So let's go to Settings. Now. In settings you have the appearance dark theme. If you put dark theme, the appearance of the layouts are going to be darker. It's okay if you wanted like that for me, I used the default one, but you can actually go there and you can see that everything goes dark. But I like the default one. Now you have export in sharing photos and you have image sizing. If you come here you can see the size of the pictures that you're going to add it. I normally put do not resize because I'm not editing just pictures of my phone and also editing pictures that I took with my camera. And I prefer the pictures to be the size that they are taken, so I will leave it like this, do not resize. So if you take with your phone of picture at 20 megapixels, This is what he's going to appear here. If you want to take a picture with more megapixels and your phone is allowing you to do it. You just take a picture with dad megapixel and it's going to appear here exactly how it is. I don't want the image sizing to be specific. I want it to be how I took it. Okay. But it's up to you. If you want to save space in your cell phone or your tablet, you can make it smaller. Now in format and quality is basically almost the same idea that I, I always go to 100 percent white. This JPEG is because it's actually the format of exporting when I'm exporting my picture. So I'm editing raw. But when I finished the editing, when I save and I export, my picture's going to export as a JPEG, but how do I want it? A 100 percent, 80%, 95 percent or as PNG, if you're editing like a transparency, it's up to you. But I always go for a 100 percent, but it depends on your phone or your tablet. If you have a lot of space or you don't have much space, you want to save space. You can use the 80 percent or 95 percent, but I'm going to leave it in a 100 percent because I always like that top quality that I could use in this application. And that's basically it with the settings. Now here in the I button, this icon, it's information and that's pretty cool because it's like a metadata. It tells you here, for example, I didn't use any map, but it tells you the picture was taken with a Panasonic 85. It was a 500 of a second. So it tells you all the detail of the picture and how I took the picture. It was in 2019. Well information, this is the metadata and sometimes is very important. Now these, we click here in these two papers and an arrow. There you go. You have undo. If you do a lot of editing, a lot of, you already put lake curves, you already changed the colors, you already changed out or know the structure of the big picture. When you put undue, it's going to erase the last thing that you did, not everything, just the last thing that you need redo. Of course. If you erased it and you said, Oh my God, this is not correct. I want to go back. You press redo and it goes back. Rebirth is going to reset the whole thing. So everything you did in the editing, if you press revert is going to erase it from 0. Okay, so be careful with that. Qr Luke, I'm going to jump to this view edits because this is more important. Qr look, you can create a QR for your pictures. Khan Qajar look, for example, or QR. Create a QR picture because we didn't do any editing or anything. This is like a little lighter color. We cannot do anything now, but as soon as you start to do entities and everything, you can create a QR code. Now, we go back here, BYU edits it weekly gear. We're gonna see everything we did. We didn't do anything in the picture, so it doesn't appear here. It appears here developed because remember this is a row picture on when you start with the raw picture, they give you the option of development. We didn't do any editing. Here is just appearing but there's nothing. So let's go back here and to show you how these view edits work, I'm going to start explaining you the tools here. You can see these icons you have like a rainbow here. This rainbow is going to allow you to use all these presets. You see if you click here, the picture changes, these are the presets for the picture is very similar, like when you have an Instagram, That's pretty cool actually, I like it is black and white is very nice. So you have all these presets. And actually when you do edit things that you like, you can actually save your editing is also as a preset, so I'll show you that later. So we go back to the top. This is current. It means this is how it is. And last ADCs because I was editing pictures before. They tell you more or less like the last edited you'd eat is like this. Let's use this one. Let's use this one. Okay, Remember, always click Check, not XX means you didn't do anything. You go back to 0. Let's click check. There you go. Now if we go here again to the top and we put view edits, you can see everything we did look at these, these are all the edits and we can come to lens blur for example. And we can see in detail, we can erase that editing, we can brush it. I will show you later we're not doing editing yet. I'm just showing you what all of these dots and you have here, basically the adjust button. So whatever you did here, you can change it if you come here. This is what we did. You can still change it, you know, and go back home. So how it was change the editing, the due-date, we're going to press X. It doesn't change anything. And the same you can do with all of them. And the cool thing also is that you can see how the picture was before you put all of these. For example, if I go to HDR scape, picture changed a little bit. Did you see? Because now portrait and less blurred these editors are ID, are not active. You see are like emboss. If I come to curves, keeps change in the picture because it means these four, as you can see, the lighter color now is they are inactive now. So I can start from the beginning. That's how the picture was. And as soon as I did the tuning with the details, with the curves, soon as you go up, all the editing start to appear. So let's go to the top. That's how I did the editing and these really cool tool because there's so many things you can do, especially when you use this little icon here in the middle, that is the brush. I will show you how to use it later and it's really cool. Okay, so I don't want to do any editing like this store we're gonna do is we're going to start from 0. Remember how I told you to do it? You come here and you put Raibert. It says that it's going to erase everything. Yes, I want to erase everything and that's it. This is how the picture was from the beginning. So now we're going to go to the next lesson where we will talk about this pen here and I'll show you what it is. Look at these, these are all the tools. In the next lesson, we will start explaining every single tool. 7. Tools Part 1: Okay guys, this is the moment everybody was waiting for. We're going to start talking about the tools. So the tools are going to be here, as you can see here in the right side, you have these little pencil when you click it or touch it, you're going to have all the tools here. We're going to start from the top. You see here Ra, develop. These is actually appearing just if you are editing raw pictures. If you're editing JPEG pictures, don't worry, this is not going to be here, but you have the tune image that is next to it. And it's basically very, very similar. It's just little extra details that you have for the raw picture in the lesson where we talk about how to import a raw pictures, we already talk about this. So we're going to go straight to tune images. So if you are editing JPEG, you go straight there. Let's start with this one to an image. And as you can see here in the top, it says brightness, but this is just one of the things you can do here. Let's go down where it says adjust and we're going to touch it. And now we have all of these things. Brightness, contrast, saturation, ambience. So if we select brightness, it was selected by default. And you dodge and you move your finger or if you're using a pen like me, for example, right now with my tablet, I'm using a pen. So if you move your finger to the right, you'll see that you are adding brightness to the left. You're taking out the brightness is so easy. Normally when I edit, I like to add a little bit of brightness. The picture is already properly exposed, but I add brightness because then when you start to add contrast and you do the curves and all of these things, then starts to get a little bit darker. So I think brightness is going to help you. Now if you want to go to the next option to adjust, you can come here down to adjust and you can come to contrast, for example. And now you are in contrast. You can see here on the top it's just contrast. Or also what you can do is with your finger, you just move up and down in the picture and you see it's appearing again all of these list and that's actually easier than going down and pressing this adjusts and things like that. In contrast, of course, is adding contrast and it will go all the way to the right. You see what contrast is doing is actually making the dark colors darker and the white corners wiener. So don't exaggerate with this. If you go to the opposite side, it's actually making the picture very flat. There's no very wide or very black. It's actually very plain. So we're gonna go to the center. Okay? Normally when I add it, I just add a little bit of contrast because I like to make my contrast using the curves that we're going to see in the next lesson. So let's go back to 0 actually in brightness also, let's go back to 0 because we are not editing the pictures in this first lesson. So I'm going to show you, but every tool is for, at the end we will add it. Okay, so now we go to saturation, and of course the name says it all. We're going to add a lot of saturation in the colors are, we're going to take out the saturation if we go to the left. And as you can see, if I go extremely to live, I take out the colors and now we have a black and white picture. Actually looks very nice like this, but I don't want that now. So we're going to go to 0, and now we go to amines. Amines is very nice. I use it a lot because it's like it gives life to your picture. You can see if you go all the way to the side, look the picture, look at the sky. I'm going to go back to 0 and look at the sky, how it changes. For good, look, you see it's more blue, is actually adding some light over here in the ceiling. Also. It gives life, but don't exaggerate, okay? Every time you use these tools, don't exaggerate. Remember that we are actually in tune. The image is the first tool we're using. So don't accelerate because there's more tools to come. And every single tool that you're doing is going to be adding and adding more and more things to the picture. So we don't want to over edit the picture because it's never good. Okay, this is what that means. Does, if we go to the opposite side, it takes the live out. It looks very dark. Don't misunderstand me. It doesn't mean it's bad. Sometimes, for example, when I add it in, I'm editing with this very famous style that is called the moody dark, moody orange, moody blue tones that you do. Normally you take out the ambiance. Not much. Remember, I don't do much. Maybe like this or maybe like 27, something like this I would do if I will be editing that, but for now, I'm going to leave it at 0 and to go back to 0, what I just did is just double touch ambiance and it goes back to 0. Okay? Now we go to highlights depending on what you want to add it, you can add or take out highlights. In this case, the exposure is properly done. We don't need to add or take out anything. But sometimes, like I said before, because I really, I really like this style, moody, moody style of the pictures. You can take out highlights. And it looks like you're taking out the highlights all it's going to be bad. Don't worry, because when you come to shadows, you can recover these. But what just happened, and I'm gonna explain you this because it's actually a tip. We're going to go back to 0 and we're going to go back to highlights. I want you to see this guy in the sky. When you add highlights, it actually overexposed. You see it's overexposed for sure. He's like clipping, but if you go to the opposite side, look at the sky, it gets better. So that's why normally when I went to fix a sky or there's a beautiful skylight, this one, I go back and then I fix it with the shadows going up a little bit because the shadows are going to fix just the darker parts of the image. Not going to touch the sky. The sky is already fixed. You see? So we recover the light that we lost with the highlights, but leaving the sky how it's supposed to be. This is a tip, but we will see more when we start to edit our pictures together in the third part of the course. So we go to warm. Warm would be the temperature of the image. And what is the temperature? Whoever doesn't know about editing photography and maybe you are just starting in the photography world, temperature is how the light comes to the picture and is measured by Kelvin if we go to the cold areas. So for example, we go to the left side, it's going to be blue, like it's about to get dark. You see? And now if we go extreme is completely blue. Of course he's not natural, but it depends on your editing style or what you want to do that could help. And we will understand a little bit more when we start to do the masks in the future. So if we go to the right side, we will make it actually warmer. So it's actually like it's a sunset. As you can see, the light is changing these like really a sunset. You see. That's what is happening. So normally it depends a lot on how you did your picture. Maybe you did the picture during a sunset but your white balance was not properly done. Then it's like a little cold, so then you can adjust it with these and fix it. This is basically all the adjustments you can do in these tool. But you can see here on the bottom it says auto adjust. It means that Snapseed is going to try to understand your picture and do the auto adjust. Let's click it to see what happened. You see it was a very simple adjustment. Not much, but it's okay. I think I like it. You can use it as a start of the editing and then you go to the next tools. But in my case, I like to do it by myself. So remember when you click the check mark here is going to save everything. And if you click the X is not going to save anything. So we will do it like this. Here. Over the eggs, you have the histogram, you're going to have it in most of the editing tools that we have in Snapseed, you can see that we're tending to the darker colors, but don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. We can fix that in the future. Okay, now we're going to click again the benzyl and we will go to the details. And in details it's the same idea you have adjust on the bottom, you press it just you can see what you can fix. And also if you go up and down with your finger, you can actually change. Let's go to structure first. And the structure is actually very nice for this specific picture because we have a lot of trees, a lot of light. You can see roofs in the houses and structure is going to help you to put more details in the picture or take out the details depending on what you want. And then you will say, but more details is better. Why would I not use a structure? Well, when you are doing an editing of a portrait, for example, and the face is very close to the camera. Sometimes you don't want to emphasize the details. You want to soften the picture a little bit. So that's why you can take out the structure. So it's always good to have all the possibilities. So you can do more and more things with your editing. I'm going to show you, you know what, I'm going to get close to these. If you doubled top in the picture, you will assume in the picture, and you can see here down below in the corner and the left that you have this square with the blue square. The blue square is exactly what you're looking at. So if you move the blue square, you're going to go around, okay? And if you use both of your fingers in the squared, that in yourself on would be very tiny. But if you tried to manage to put both of your fingers, you can actually make it smaller or bigger. If you want to move around the picture, you have to hover the blue square. So I did this soon because I want to show you the details. Okay, let's check the roofs. If I exaggerate, look at this. There's more details in the roof. There's more details also here in the trees. But the problem is when you add a lot of structure, it's always adding a little bit of noise in the darker parts. So it's not good for you to exaggerate. We're going to go back and we're going to add just like 2020 something. I think there is. Okay. You double-tap the picture and you go back to the same size like it was. If you want to see how the picture is going, you can see here on the top-left corner there is these like open book. If you touch it you can see how the picture is changing. It's not a big difference because I didn't do many changes. Remember that in the last entities, I just didn't save them because I just want to show you what this does. I'm going to take out the structure and I'm going to go now to sharpening. I think it's very easy because it's self-explanatory. It's going to make your pictures sharper. And now again, maybe the question of why would you try to avoid sharpening would actually sharpening can help you to make the picture sharper. Because well, sometimes your picture is good enough. You don't need to add more sharpening because when you add sharpening, you add noise and you don't want noise in your pictures. So what we're gonna do is we can go exaggerate. So you can see, it's very difficult to see here, but I'm going to try to make this bigger so you can see what the sharpening is gonna do. We exaggerate. You can see that it's very similar to the structure before it gives more details, It's sharpen the picture more, but still is adding these noise in the darker parts. And we don't want that so you don't exaggerate with the sharpening. Now in this picture, in this kind of pictures is good to add. These sharpening is very interesting, actually gives the picture more details, especially because we have so many houses also, if you take pictures in the woods and things like that. But if you have a picture of a dog or an animal or a picture of a person, we do ask too much, sharpening, the hair looks very unnatural. This scheme looks very unnatural, so I will not suggest you to do it. Just be careful, okay, now we go back to 0. And now we're going to the next lesson where we are going to talk about curves and white balance curves is actually very important. For me. Curbs, he's like 50 percent of the editing, so we'll talk about it very good in the next lesson. 8. Tools Part 2: Okay guys, Now we're going to talk about curves. Let's press curves. And then you have the picture and you have these little square with these lying in the middle or the top part of the squares for the whites and the bottom part is for the blacks. You can see that if I take these and put all the way to the top is gonna become everything white. And if I do the opposite is all becoming black. The idea of the curve is to create contrast. So the blacks are gonna be blocked and the whites are gonna be white. The contrast helps the picture to look much better. What do we do normally? And for sure you heard about it is the S-curve. We always strive to do an S unless you want to do something different with the picture. For example, if you want the picture to have like a plain color, like an old-style bientot. You can actually take these a little bit high. You can see that you have like, you know, a year on the top of the picture. We don't want that now. What we're going to do now is the most popular contrast. We do three dots here by just touching the line, you create the dots. If you create these three dots here, you're gonna have five in total. The top one would be the highlights, this one would be the whites. You can see it's over here. Then in the middle you have the meat tones. You can play with the mid tones here. And then on the bottom you have the shadows. And here is basically all the blacks. What do we do to create contrast these? We add blacks and we add white, but we balance them. So for example, if I pull this a little bit, I'm actually giving these blacks appropriate color. If I go here a little bit high, then I'm creating an S-curve. Let's put these more in the middle. Now I just created the nist curve and you can see the picture looks better. It's now contrasty if we go here on the top to see how it was solid to us, and this is how it is now, it is much better. Of course, after you do the curves, you can actually play with the shadows and maybe the highlights like I was showing you at the beginning. You can take all highlights to make this guy better. And then you can add a little bit of shadows and all of these things are coming after and he's going to make the picture amazing. At the end of this section of tools, we're going to, for fun, we're going to edit this picture properly and you will see exactly what I'm talking about. Now, as you saw when I opened the curves, this is the first curve that came to me. These square and all of these, these curves is actually playing with all the colors and everything in the picture, with the whole picture. But if we come here, you can see here in channel, if we press channel, you can do curves in the red color, in the green color and in the blue color, that basically are the three main colors. And that's why the curve that we were using now It's called RGB because it's red, green, and blue. Now we can also do a curb with the luminance. Imagine if we do a curve with the illuminance. The good thing of Snapseed told you is that you can see here on the back of this curve that we're going to do the curve that we did before with the RGB. And we luminance, we can create a curve that is very similar and you can see the difference. You can see what is happening. I don't use the luminance March unless I needed, unless we have to play with it brightness of the picture, but I normally don't use it. Now if we come here in channel, again, we can go to the reds. We can do actually the same thing. But now with the reds, you are working with red colors you see, of course, you know, if you go up, you out read, if you go down actually you're making the green's a stronger. You have to understand a little bit about the color wheel to understand that the opposite of red is green and then you just pull the colors to that side. But in this case, let's make a curve always a curb. I'm always trying to do a curve like I said before, unless you want to do something different. But if you want to do this crazy editing things like adding a little bit of red. This is actually your credit DVT. You can create editings. It doesn't have to be always not to add colors. You can embed something to make something amazing. You can see here we exaggerate and you can see you in the sky and the clouds are becoming pink. You can do the same with the green, and you can do the same with the blue. Let's do the same with the green, for example. Now all green. Let's see with the blue what happened if we go here and we go here. You can see that this guy is changing the color, but this is what it does, okay, I just cancel that and we're gonna stay with the RGB curve. If you go to height over here, you just take out the curve just to see what's going on with the picture and then you can put it back if you want to change something, look at the sky, for example, here. Look at this guy. If I move this a little bit to this side, it helps, actually gives a little bluish color to the sky and that makes it nice. You see what we can do with this also, if you go here to the blacks, you can actually add blocks here, but I don't want that though. I normally do this. I put it a little bit high, so we give a little bit of flatness to the colors. And then just to make a little bit of a punch, we can add another one here. And that saint, that's actually a nice curve. And another option that you have, and this is really cool. You come to style. You'll have styles of curves here. Like for example, soft contrast. You can see that the curve just changed. We can go to Hard Contrast. We can actually look for a specific curve that you want. In this case, all the girls were used. As you can see, look at this one. You can actually just use it. Like do you use the curb that you want and then you do the rest of the editing. So that's actually very, very good. Also, you can see here how the curve is just this Grb. It'll make it a little bit darker. This is a good idea to start also to use the presence and see what is happening or how the curves are for you to learn also how to use the curves. I suggest you to come here, started to put a picture and start to edit. I started to play with the curves. That's the only way to, to learn these kind of things is by practicing by drying. So let's press X here. So we didn't use any curves. Forget about the curves for now, even though for me the curves is big part of the editing. And when we start to edit in the third section of this course, we will see how I use the curves and why I do the things with the curves. Let's come here and we're gonna do now white balance. We already beat the warmness, the temperature of the picture at the beginning you have the option for the white balance and I don't know why in Snapseed you have an extra option for white balance. Again, because you remember that in tune image you had the option of warmness. And it also gives you this outer white balance there just on the color picker, exactly the same. Well, you have it again and this is how it works. Auto you know how it works out to you just press out to and snap city is going to decide which is the correct temperature for the picture. Color beaker. Like I said before, you just click here and you go to a flat color. In this case could be the wall of this house. Or you can adjust by yourself and you can adjust the temperature. You can actually do it like this or like this. You can do like cold or warm. We already talked about it. So that's very self-explanatory. And in themed, this is something that actually you didn't have in the tune images. So now your intent, if you go to the right side, you go to the magenta color and if you go to the left side, if you go to the green color, that of course they're opposite in the color wheel. In this case, I will not touch anything because the colors are good, the exposure is good. Now we'll do the crop. Actually every time I start to edit a picture for me, the most important part are the curves, but then the group is very important also because it's what he's gonna tell you how the picture is gonna be. We're gonna use the Crop option. What I will suggest you to do every time you start editing is cropping first. Because when you crop, you look for the composition and how the picture is going to be. And then after you've cut it in crop at exactly how you want, you can start editing because then you have an idea of which parts too, like paid more attention. Let's talk about what we have here. You have the freestyle, and the freestyle actually is not that specific aspect ratio you can actually do however you want. You can make the picture like nice if you want, then you have the original. Of course we know the originalist how the picture was taken. Then we have the square that is the one-by-one, that a lot of people are using this square for Instagram, but I don't use that for Instagram. I prefer to use the four by five free Instagram that in this case you don't find it, but we have the five by four. So what you do is you select the five by four and then here on the bottom you see rotate. You just press rotate. And now we have the four by five for Instagram. Let's see what should we do for Instagram. Maybe, maybe we can crop a little bit more and maybe here it would be fine for Instagram. So we just click Accept and we haven't. Now our picture is cropped as you can see here, we did all of the top tools. We did white balance within crop. Let's talk about Rotate and perspective to finish this lesson. And this is gonna be very fast because we don't need to rotate. We don't need to do anything with that perspective. I just wanted to show you what it does when you go to rotate is very self-explanatory. You can actually rotate the picture by touching the picture you can see and if you see here on the top where he's written straining angle, you see the degrees of the rotating that you just did of the angle. If you double-click, of course it goes back on the bottom. You do have also the option to rotate to the right, rotate to the right or to the right, and we come back to the beginning. And you have also the option of flipping. Flipping is very interesting. Just pay attention on the building here on the right side, these white one over here. If I flip the picture now, it's in the older side is exactly the same picture. Just flipped. It just went to the other side. That's pretty cool. Maybe you want to use it for something, I don't know, But it's really cool. We flip it again and we have the picture back how it was. Let's press X, that was the rotating. And now let's go to perspective. In perspective, and I'm telling you this is not useful now, but if you have a picture of architecture building, you want to straighten the lines up. These could be very helpful. Also a phase if you have a portrait and the face is looking like a very strange angle, do you want to move it a little bit? Maybe you could use this part like this. I can show you the perspective. What I mean by perspective, like literally where moving the picture like it's like you're walking to the right side, dry hits and also their perspective here. And if you go up and down, you can do exactly the same as you can see what it does. Basically it's a stretch in the bottom and pushing the top, It's actually deforming the picture. If you find these useful for an, a specific editing, that's great. It's here. You can do it. As you can see here on the top of the picture, there is these little lines. This is showing you how he's been moved. If you want to go back to how we do ask you, just move it and moving it down by touching the screen and going down until I reach there. There you go. It means now the picture is how it was in case you are taking pictures of buildings and this is a little twisted or move to the side. You can press also outdoor. And he's going to do it by itself, but you see didn't work properly. Now if you exaggerate, like I'm exaggerating now, this looks horrible, but it's just an example. Did you realize that snaps it is understanding what it's on the top. And these holes that you are creating when you move it is filled by artificial intelligence of Snapseed because you can see it's creating part of the picture like it is. If we go to the opposite side, look at this. It's actually creating here, it didn't do it properly, as you can see here in the coronary looks horrible. But he's trying it best. You can see here on the top also trying, it's trying to do the West, but we're also doing some crazy stuff. Now what you can do is come here to fill mode. And instead of Smart feeling that it's already by default marked and it's trying to fill it. You can actually feel it just with white. And now you can see that actually this is smart Feeling disappeared and now he's white or you can fill it with black. Of course we don't want to do that. So we're going to press X. There you go. Now, we already saw the first two lines of tools and we're gonna go to the next lesson where we're going to talk about expand selective, brush and healing. 9. Tools Part 3: Okay, so now we're going to talk about expand selective brush and healing all these third row. And we're going to go to expand first, expand these very similar than the last tool that we use perspective, very similar in the idea of like feeling everything around prospective moves the angle of the picture. In this case, we're just going to stretch the picture, but we're not gonna make the picture ugly when you stretch the picture. If we use these in the corners, you can see smart white and black were with smart in blue. So it means it's marked. It means that Snapseed in a very intelligent way. It's going to fill the spaces. Most of the time is doing a very good job, but you have to be careful not to exaggerate because then it's not going to work. Let's work with the picture. You see that the square has four lines, white lines around. If we pull, for example, the right line just a little bit. Did you see what happened is Snapseed immediately just corrected the field that part with something that didn't exist in the picture. If we go to the top also, I guess it's going to work because it's dark. We don't see the details and the mistakes, and that is actually good. But if we go down, you will see now there is a mistake because it's not that dark. So you can see that Snapseed to try to replace with repeating the same part of the image and it doesn't look good. It is gonna be good if you took a picture and it was not correct and you need to make it a little bigger for sure it's gonna work perfectly, but don't exaggerate. Like I said, don't go too far. Here. We're going to correct that we're gonna come back. This is the field mode, of course, if we come to white or black, as you can see here, is going to fill it with white or he's going to fill it with black. So it's the same idea is just feeling the parts with the color is exaggerated. So you can understand what I mean. Let's go all the way here. You see where expanding the picture, but it's not cities not doing anything. It's just filling it up with a white. That's it with this tool. And let's go to the next tool. Let's press X. Remember, I'm pressing X because I'm not saving anything in the picture, no editing in the picture because we're going to edit later. I'm just showing you the tools, okay? If you did a job here and you liked it and you want to save it, you'll have to click the check mark here. In this case, we're going to the x. Now let's go to the next tool. And this one is called selective. Non-selective is very interesting because it makes you work with areas. For example, let's work with the sky. And it's very nice because actually it's Snapseed is going to understand or try to understand that list that you want to select the sky because of the contrast of the image, in this case is very contrasty. You can see very dark, the ceiling over there and then the worlds. It's gonna be very good selecting, but sometimes it doesn't select perfectly, but the idea is here and it's very good to use it. Let's click it or touch this guy in the middle. And immediately you can see that it appeared these B, B because we're working with brightness, but actually the circle with the blue inside, That's the selective part. So bright, let's work with brightness versus if we go all the way to the right is a lot of brightness. And if we go to the left, of course we take out the brightness. I'm going to exaggerate to the right so you can see exactly what is happening. As you can see, it changed just the sky, snaps. It was very clever and selected just the sky. This is the area that we are manipulating. Now, my suggestion when you work with skies is don't put too much light. Don't eliminate it too much. Actually take the light and you will see that it's going to become better in color. And you're gonna have more details. Now, like in the other tools, when you move up and down with your finger, you scroll up and scroll down. You will have more options. So let's do that and you can see you have contrast. Now this circle change to see because we're working with the contrast. Now, look what happened with this guy. When you add contrast, actually you add color as well. It would take the contrast is no color. If you add contrast is going to add color, but don't exaggerate because it is not, not throughout. I will do it like over here. Now we keep going down and we have now saturation. We can add a little bit of saturation to add this blue and the whites in the clouds, but don't exaggerate. They always gonna repeat, I'm not going to get tired saying that. Now the last option is structure. Structure is going to give you details. And I'm gonna tell you this that in Snapseed since the beginning when we started to use the tools, you saw that they have structured, they have details. And then after three or four tools, you saw it again. Even also like at the beginning you saw contrast and then you have contrast in another tool. And then you have also the curves that gives you contrast. So you have many things that are doing basically the same job in a different way. So my suggestion is be very careful because you don't want to add too much structure or too much contrast in the pictures. Sometimes when you are too long editing, you don't realize what you're doing, and then you have to take a rest and come back and then you will see that all my gosh, he was too saturated, too much contrast. Don't go too far in a structure when we talk about Sky, I like to take tau to structure because it makes the, this part a little softer and the structure is gonna give details and we don't want details in this guy unless you want, unless you want, of course if you want you can add details. I'm going to add structure in the houses, but not in the sky. I'm going to take out the structure a little bit, and that's it. Now if you want to create another selective tool you just come to add here on the bottom you press Add. And I'm gonna click in the middle of the houses. Now we have another one, and I think we cannot a little bit of brightness here, then we can go on contrast at more contrasts don't exaggerate. Then we go to saturation just a little bit because then we're gonna play more with colors and saturation. And then we'd structure. I'm going to add a little bit more because it gives details. Now you can see how these works. And if you want to see the picture properly without these little circles, you can come here on the bottom where it says Hide and you just press it, holding it and you can see how the picture looks. And then you just take your pen or your finger out of the button and they came back these circles over here. That's it. Let's close it and let's go to the next tool. And now we're going to use the brush. And the brush is actually something that I use a lot. These are basically the masks. Immediately it appears dodge and burn. It appears exposure, temperature and saturation. We're gonna start with Dodge and Burn. As you can see here on the bottom in the center, you have decrease and increase and it's an eraser right now, eraser means is in 0, We're gonna go high. We're going to go like, You know what, let's exaggerate so we can understand tennis the top. So let's use the ten so you can see what is going to happen. Now you have the effect in your finger. You have the power. Now. You just pass your finger through the houses and you will see what is happening. You see that he's like lighting up the houses. He's lightened the mob. You see, Lord, let see more and more. You just brush it like the name it says russia threatened not to touch the sky because we're working with the houses, were not working with anything else. If you keep brushing and keep brushing even though he's intent, you're actually giving March and March at the effect. So you don't want to exaggerate. Now we're doing it. We're adding a lot. And if I keep brushing is even gonna keep adding the effect. Now if you want to see what you can come here on the bottom in the right corner where it says mosque, you click it. You can see that all these red around the houses is basically the mosque. It's horrible. We supposed to be more delicate with their masks, but I am trying to show you how that works. But don't worry, everything is fixable. So what we're going to do is we're gonna take out the mask. You can decrease here the effect to eraser you remember what I told you your intent? You come here down to 0 means eraser. And then just brush again. Just brush, brush, brush and look at this. It come back how it was just for you to check that you're not missing a spot. You can click here in the mask again. And you can see that here on the corner here you are missing that spot. You can erase again with your finger. And I think we're pretty much done. We can take out the mask. Let's go to the next effect. We can go to temperature and you know what? Let's, let's be very careful and use the temperature and let's make it cold. But just this guy, remember two fingers, two fingers, we can make the image bigger and then we move this blue square to this guy. Let's see what can we do with the temperature we careful, Barry, careful. Let's go to minus ten. So it's a very cold, very bluish, and we're very careful not to touch the houses or anything we start to add. You can see that we're basically adding these cool tone to the whole sky. Very cool tone. I'm trying not to touch the houses, even though I'm touching the houses. But now we have the zoom super soon. Because when we go back to the regular size, you will not even notice. Now if we come to the size, the normal size, you can see that this guy is bluish. Of course it was not perfect. I mean, if you want to make it perfect, you can just assume more and then you go exactly into the detail. Let's go to 0 like eraser and let's erase this guy to make it back to the original color. So basically now you know how it works you come to Effect. You have exposure and saturation that you can also use with brushes. Brushes are very interesting to use because these are basically the masks and this makes the editing process more professional. So now let's press X and let's go to the last one of this lesson that is the healing. And the healing is super-useful, super useful. But again, don't use it too much. Is super useful, but don't use it too much. You want all the time your pictures to be as natural as possible. So I'm gonna make the image bigger. Remember two fingers to so many in, there you go. I'm gonna show you here you see these cloud in the middle. I don't want these clouds. So what you do is with your finger, you just draw a little line in the Cloud. There you go. Look at the code, disappear completely. This is incredible. It's not seem to work very, very, very good with the, with this tool. Of course, if you go like in the houses, is gonna try to do it as best as it can, but don't expect too much. So try not to use it too much, but if it's necessary, you can use it. For example, if you want to like pimples or a scar in a phasor in a portrait or it works perfectly so I will suggest you use it with confidence, but be very careful when you have things like houses and very crowded places because it's not gonna be perfect. I'm gonna show you another example of these healing. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to erase the whole poll that is here. Okay, So let's see, let's paint it and let go. I don't know if he's gonna do it properly. Let's see. Go it did it very nice look at this. Whereas the pole, it is a miracle of bleed is very, very good. Actually, of course, here around this area I can see a little blurred. But it doesn't matter because remember that the photo is very soon. If we double-click in the blue square, we go back. And now you don't see these blurry, you don't see these mistakes. It actually looks like it was like this. It is actually very nice. I'm impressed. Let's press X and then let's go to the tools. And in the next lesson we will see this fourth row, HDR, glomerular tonal contrast and all of these. So I'll see you in the next class. 10. Tools Part 4: Now in this fourth line, we're going to have HDR, glomerular tonal contrast and drama and dark basically like presets are basically like filters that we're going to use in our picture. Let's start with HDR. By the way, HDR, high dynamic range. So Snapseed is gonna have already filters that are gonna try to make this picture very, a lot of tones and an olive colors here. As you can see, these actually a preset with the fine-grain because you can see that it's adding here in the sky, especially you can see that it's adding a little bit of green. That means noise, but it's in purpose, so it's artistic. So you can actually see that the picture looks very nice. You can see here on the top filter strand is 50%. You can actually move your finger to the left and take out the strength of the filter. You can see you take it out completely or you can add. It is actually pretty cool. I like the filter, but it's not necessarily what you want. You can actually come here on the bottom where it says adjust. And you can play with the brightness, with the saturation and keep adjusting with these tools, the filter that was already applied. Also you come here to style and you can use this strong grain. So then it's like a different filter. You can use the people filter or the nature filter. They're all filters at the end that said no, it's, it's basically filters. Maybe you like it and your picture is done. You just do these tweaks with the tools and adjust here and then it's done. You never know, you never know. I don't really edit my photos 100%. So I don't use many filters per se. But if you are in a rush, if you're in a hurry, filters are very, very, very good, like a good start for the editing. And then you can go back and beside the filter you start to do these changes. His press X is go back to the little pencil. Now let's go to glamour, glow. That sounds really cool. Again, filters. You can come to number two. You can see that the picture is changing. This one is very soft. You can come here, you can come here. They are filters, but let me tell you something. They are good. They're not good for this picture, but maybe you have a different picture. Maybe you have a portrait or I don't know, maybe you are taking pictures of jewelry or some product photography. These filters could work always in editing and in this world of photography, you have to experiment, you have to try everything. You never know what's gonna happen. Of course, hearing just the same as before. You can actually change the amount of the filter. You can actually move up and down. You have saturation, it exaggerates iteration. You keep going up and down and you have warmed, super warm. I would suggest you not to practice just with this kind of photography. Maybe you can try other kinds of photography like portraits, like maybe you are pictures in the woods. Maybe you have pictures of a france, take pictures of your little dog. It's super cute. So you never know, you never know this could work perfectly for you. Now we go to the next one that is tonal contrast. The name says it all. This is actually a lot of contrasts we're gonna play with contrast. Now the thing with this tool is that the changes in the picture are very subtle. You don't see them properly because you're normally are going to use his Nazi in the tablet or in the cell phone. The image is so small Digital see a big change. For example, here we are in 30% of the high tones. If I go up and down, you can see high tones, mid tones, low tones then protect shadows, protect highlights. But let's go for the high tones. If I go all the way, I can actually see a little bit of a change, but I don't know if you can see it in your screen. It was a little change. You can actually check in the sky that majority of the change was actually in this guy. If I go here to the corner here, top corner, top-right corner, and you click this, you will see the before. You can see that the change was in the sky. Now if you see the houses, let's check here around the center of the houses, there is a change. So it's actually giving more detail is changing. Just like I said, is very subtle. But you know what? Once I connected my tablet to a monitor and I started to use Snapseed for editing. And it's incredible these tools that you don't see much difference. It's actually a big difference. It's just that it's a cell phone or a tablet. They are small devices you cannot see properly. So I will suggest you, when you're editing, if you want to use the tones, use them a little bit, even if you don't see much changes, use them a little bit because then if you in this picture to somebody who's going to see it in a monitor, they will see the difference. We're going now to meet tones is going to do the same, but in the mid tones, I can actually see more details. I see that if I exaggerate, of course, but I know that I don't want to exaggerate. Protect shadows means that it's going to give you all these effects, but he's not going to touch the shadows. You can see the little subtle changes are just in the middle because basically all around our shadows and the shadows are not been touched, they're staying exactly the same. So that's basically it. Okay, now let's press X and let's go to the last one in this lesson that is called Drama. It sounds like drama, like a horror movie. Well, in this case is exactly the same as before. They are actually presets. You can add them to change your picture. Look at this drama. These are the pictures. This is like a horror movie. Now if you choose this one, you can come to adjust and it's the same thing. You can actually add this trend or take out the string I'm gonna add all the way up. Let's see, because it's getting a little bit of vignetting, vignetting around. And I like that. We go to saturation and maybe we can add a little bit of saturation. There you go. I actually like it. I will actually use this picture at some point. This is the idea you come to style. You have all these options and then adjust here on the bottom and then you can play around. So I will suggest you to come and have fun with this. And yeah, this is it. Now we're going to go to the next lesson where we're going to talk about vintage grainy film, retro looks and branch that are basically also the same idea of these tools because they're going to be basically like presets and that you can adjust. But still let's go to the next lesson and let's have fun with them. 11. Tools Part 5: Okay guys, for this lesson, I decided to change the picture just to make a difference. So let's go here to tools in the little pencil just to go back with the tools. So Vintage, the name says it all. So it's very easy. It's actually like the other tools to just play with the presets and then you have the option here, as you can see, Adjust breast here in a just or with your finger, you can go up and down. You see as soon as you go into the top of the picture up and down, these are just comes up. We have a begets strength. As you can see, older vintage prisons come already with a vignette, if you can see here in the corners and the style strength, most of the tools in Snapseed are gonna come with style strength because most of the tools are coming with presets, you can actually make the prison stronger or lighter. For example, here is go for the strength. You see all the editings in that receipt is gonna go up or down. This is pretty cool. This knob cities allowing you to use all the presenters that they have. And besides the diversity, it's already there, you can actually adjust it. Now let's talk about blur. You see here this icon blur. Let's go to the picture and let's put blur. As you can see around the picture is all blur. This is not good for these kind of picture because he's, Venice is beautiful and I would like the picture to be visible 100%. But if you're doing a portrait, for example, this will work very, very good. So let's take out the blur unless press X, so we don't save anything in this picture and we go back to the original picture so I can show you the next tools. Let's go to the next tool, grainy film. As the name says, it all is grainy. You can see a lot of noise in the sky here you see. Now you can choose actually within all these presets. So as I said before, they are going to work exactly the same because you have here the adjust option if you put adjust and you can adjust the grain so add more noise. Imagine we had a lot of noise now, it looks like a paint more than a picture. Let's take out a little bit of the noise and then you have the other option of style strength that you have in most of the presets. In Snapseed, you can add strand or take out the strength of the style or receipts. Now let's press X here and we go to the next one, retro loops also the name says it all retro. You can see very retro here in the corner. You can see like a hair or something there. You see these like dirt in the film back in the day when you take a picture, you have these plates instead of films. So that's pretty cool. You can go all over the presets here. Now as you can see, these presets are a little different because you can see these arrows here. There's two arrows. That means that you have more options within these presets. If you press the number one again, you see that it keeps changing the options. You see you have more options. And also you'll have here this option called shuffled that allows you to go through all the presets and all the options inside the prisons. Look at this. You can go more and more and more and more. Just press shuffle and enjoy because you're gonna have a lot of options. And remember when I said that every time you have a preset, you will have the option to adjust the prison. In this case, you have adjust here and you got to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation. I don't need to explain about it because he's self-explanatory. But you go to style strength and let's see how it works. You see all the editing, but you have these options of scratches, these cuts here, these dirty in the film. You can actually send tweets. These ones are, you can actually take them out like this. You see, it's pretty cool actually, if I'm going to use this option, these styles, of course I'm going to add a lot because I want him to see like it's an old picture, right? Let's go now to X and let's go to grunge. Luke, what grunge does, really cool. Now let's go to texture because basically these are also presets. You can come here to texture. And again, you have these two arrows you can see. So it means you have more options inside you see. Now let us go here, for example, you have more options and every time you have more options inside every style you will have the shuffled here that gives you more options, even more options, for example, you see, look at this more and more options. It's pretty cool actually, in this picture, I wouldn't use it, but it depends. It's up to you. What do you want to use it for? This is for creativity. And of course you have more options here to adjust the style you're using. And the texture strength would be like the strength of the presets. You see exaggerated and then we'll take it off. Now let's go to x. Again. Let's go to the Tools. And we're going to see these tools here, black and white and moire. Okay, let's go to black and white. The name says it all these black and white, it's easy. You have few presets here you have the new drug I like the contrast T1 and the darkened style or dark, I love these ones. I liked the pictures a little dark. Look at this dark one is really, really cool. You can actually see the shape of the clouds is really cool. Color filter here on the bottom, we go to color filter and you can actually individually check the colors in the black and white red, for example, look what happened. Then you go to orange or you go to yellow. There's different things you can actually do with this. Of course, you can see also here on the bottom, adjust. Remember what I told you every time you have a preset or a style, you will have the option to adjust the preset. You have the brightness contrast and rain, rain we know already is the noise of the picture. You cannot allot of noise, as you can see, there's press X is go to the next one that is called, are, these ones are pretty cool because our bientot also, but it's a nice vintage. I don't know, I liked them. This color is actually older than the black and white. I remember before black and white pictures used to be these color like this. You see, now you have this black and white, but it's like bluish. You have to actually go all over Snapseed with your pictures and start to experiment because the only way you're gonna learn and put all the information in your head is practicing. You can see here all these options. And of course, every time you have presets, remember you can adjust them. Now, in this adjustment you will have wash. What does it mean? You see that this picture has been touched and has a lot of noise. You can actually watch the noise out. So if you add strength in the wash. You will see that you are actually washing the noise out, if you will, to the opposite side, you're adding the noise. So this is basically what the wash dots, then you have the green and then you have the filter strength that we know already how it works. Let's press x. Now, in the next lesson we will talk about portrait and head pose. That is basically for portraits as it's written here. We're going to use a different picture. So let's go to the next lesson because this is really fun. 12. Tools Part 6: France. In this lesson, I changed the picture because we're going to be talking about portraits. And in this case we need a face. So we changed this picture. We're gonna use this girl here. Let's go to the pencil and we have portrayed here, there are recognizable because there is like a little face with two eyes. Let's click in portrait. And there you go. As you know, every time you have presets, as you can see here, spotlight and combo all of these presets, you will be able to adjust them. So you have here the adjust option. Let's start with the stylus spotlight. You can see the face. Let's put the two fingers in the photo and let's make the photo bigger. You can actually see what he's going to happen. Let's go back to style. If you click gearing Spotlight, one, for example, you can see that the face is actually lighting up with more light in the face. There are different ways of lighting the face up. You can see a spotlight tool then smooth, That's going to make the skin smoother and then the ISO, so they're gonna make the eyes pop up. So you can see actually you have few in combo. Of course they work with all of them in this case where companies to bail the face. But in some pictures this could work. So I will suggest you to always try everything. Now if we go to none, you can actually do it yourself using the adjust. If you come to adjust, you have phases spotlight. If we click that, we are going to use the finger to the right and you can see that you put light in the face, but it doesn't look that bad. But if you make the picture smaller than you see that it's like you put a big light interface and that is not nice, it's not a proper picture. What do we do? We come back and maybe we can add just a little bit of light would come to adjust again and then you have skin smoothing. The name says it all. You're going to smooth the skin. You're gonna see here if you go exaggerate, it's not correct. Looks like a drawing and that's not what we want unless that's what you want. But the point is always to be settled. I think there is. Okay. We go to Adjustment. You have eyes clarity. I'm going to make the picture with the two fingers touching the picture. I can make it even bigger a little bit. So you can see what it's going to happen with the ice. We're going to add clarity to the eyes if we go all the way we exaggerate, it actually looks like a drawing. It looks like a cut so that let's don't exaggerate. Maybe there is. Okay. Then you see here in this corner they have this square and the blue square in the middle. That's actually how big we made it a picture. If you click in the square twice, the picture goes to the normal size. Now let's make it bigger again a little bit. I want you to see the difference. You come here on the corner. You see these like a book with a line in the middle. When you touch it, it's gonna go like how the picture was before this torch. It, it was like this. And now it is like this. You can see that the skin is a smoother. The eyes are popping up. There is like a spotlight on his face. He's very nice and we did it manually. We didn't need any style. Now let's talk about the tone of the skin. These is going to work depending of the picture, depending on the person in the picture. You have here, pale, fair, medium, and dark. For example, if we go to bail is gonna be very pale. She's actually very wide and that's not not to go to fair. It's like using a makeup medium is also she's like she's using a base makeup. That's not what I want in dark also, it could work in other pictures. So depending on the picture, you have, just put the picture and start to try with all of these because maybe one of these ones are going to work very good in your picture. We're gonna go to none because I don't want to use any of these. We're gonna make the picture again like this. And now we understand how this works. We're going to click X so we can go to the next tool. Let's go to the tool. And this is the head posts and this is really funny. It's a lot, I have a lot of fun with these kinds of tools. We're going to make the picture bigger so you can understand where we're going to do wearing the head posts, as you can see, when we mark the head bows. As soon as you touch this icon, you're gonna have these lines with the happy face in the middle. What I want you to see is the head. She's kind of looking towards one side. I can actually move her face. So I'm going to exaggerate so you can see what is going to happen. You see that she's now looking somewhere else and if I go to the opposite side, she's looking to the other side. I don't want that. I want her to look in the middle. So if you took the picture and it's a little bit twisted facing maybe like few degrees to the right or to the left. You can fix that with this. Now you will always have the option to adjust this picture. And in this case, if we click in adjust or if we just touch the screen up and down with your finger, you will have the option of pupil size. And of course, if you make it big, you will be able to see it better. Let's go for it. I'm going to exaggerate. You can see how the pupils are growing. It's crazy. He's very nice. If we go to the opposite, it goes smaller. Let's go a little bit bigger so you can see the difference. I'm going to touch this corner here so you can see how it wasn't, how it is now. Luke Howard was. And look now how it is. It's nice, actually is very nice. Now, other things that you can do, and I'm going to keep this size of the picture. If you touch the screen again and go up and down, you have a smile here you see, let's make her smile. I'm going to exaggerate. So you can see that it actually looks. It repeats like a horror movie. Look at this. It's creepy, but if we add a little smile, It's pretty cool. It's very nice. This is artificial intelligence that is Snapseed is using. It understands the picture, the skin tones, and everything to be able to make all of this. Let's touch your screen again and let's go now to focal length. And for that I'm gonna make the picture smaller, maybe a little bit bigger. So we understand, if you don't understand what focal length is, is actually the lens that you are using. The focal lens you can be using a lens or for example, 12 millimeters or 14 millimeters, Thirty-five millimeters, 50 millimeters, 80 millimeters. Normally the best for portraits would be like in 50 millimeters and maybe even 80 millimeters and even 100. But that for me, it's too much. I normally use between 5080 millimeters. So if you use like 12 millimeters is more like for landscape photography, but if you use that for a portrait and then you will have a lot of space around the face normally tend to be a little bit different than when you do a portrait. It's not actually not two. What do we do is we play with the focal length here and you can fix that. I'm going to exaggerate. Always start to exaggerate. So you can see exactly what this is doing. I'm going to start to add the focal lens and you see the phase is changing, changing a stretch in stretching and stretching. And if I click here in the corner, you will see how it was and how it is now. Whilst like this and it is like this now, it's like a skinnier and is stretched. This is not what we want. We go to the opposite side. It actually the opposite. It's not stretching is making the face bigger. I'm going to click here in the corner so you can see how it was and how it is now, we don't want that. Why is this happening, ladies, why would you use this? If you see that every time I use it, it makes the picture bad. It's because I used the correct lens. If you use a lens by mistake of 14 limiter, these could fix it. I'm not saying he's going to fix it a 100%, but it could help you to fix something. I'm imperfections of the picture. And if you go to the opposite side, if you went with a 100 millimeters, you can also try to see if it can fix the problem with these effect. In this case, a picture was taken with the proper lens and that's why we don't need to fix anything. But at the end, the point is for you to understand how it works. Now we understand how this works. Let's go to x, Let's go to the next tool, lens blur. Lens blur is self-explanatory. You can see outside these blurry in the middle circle is less blurry, and then in the center is all in focus. You can actually touch this blue dot and move it wherever you want. Actually, if you use your fingers also, you can touch the screen with two fingers and change the shape. If you go into the outer circle, you can actually change it to a circle. As you can see. You want oval, outer circle. You make an oval. With the inner circle, you can make it bigger, smaller. And with the point the blueprint, you move it around. Now on the bottom you see elliptical, you can click here and you will change immediately to these rectangular. And then again, it's the same idea in the inner part. You can make it smaller and in the outer part you can actually change also the way it's represented here in the screen. Now, why would you use this one in a portrait? Well, you don't. This is basically for landscape photography because in landscape photography you have a horizon and this is perfect for a horizon. Then the mountains in the back are gonna be a little bit blurry and then maybe closer things like branches. I don't know. Whatever he's closer to you is gonna be a little bit blurry. And what you want is gonna be in the middle, is gonna be all in-focus. Don't exaggerate with this strength of the blurred because then it doesn't look natural, especially because it's a digital blur. It's not natural, as you can see, if I am gonna go and change from linear to elliptical. If I excite your aid, it doesn't look not too. You see. So it's just good if your lens doesn't have a broker focal length and doesn't have appropriate light like a fast lens, like a one-point eight or something like that. But with this you cannot little bit, just a little bit and then it's going to look a little bit more, not too. Then you come here to adjust and you have the blur strength that is of course understandable. That's why I was doing actually, you go to the right, you go to the left and you add this strength of the blur, then you come again and you have the transition. What is the transition? The transition is basically you see that the dot change to white. Let's click it and change it to blue so we can see actually what is happening. They transition is the distance between the inner circle and the outer circle. Because as you can see, if we exaggerate with the blur, the inner circle is gonna be in focus, the outer circles and maybe a little bit unfocused and the outside is very unfocused. What do you do is this transition between the inner circular and the outer circle is going to be y there. So look, we are in transition plus Twenty-six. Let's exaggerate now and you can see that it becomes why they're the transition that actually helps you to make it more natural, but it depends on the picture. So always you have to try and try until you get the proper distance between the inner and the outer in your picture. Let's go again to adjust. And then we have the vignette. There's a lot of tools in this application is Snapseed to do we saw that have these vignettes. Most of the people are using Vignette if specially in portrait, it's very nice to give this vignette gives the center of attention exactly in the center. What we're going to do is we're gonna add vignette. If we add it to the left side, you can see it's 0. And then if we exaggerate to the other side and it becomes darker around, and he's very nice. I like to use it in portraits. Now, as you can see, is different than the vignette in the other tools they've been yet in the other tools are going to be a little bit more like a stronger, like harsh. So if you want to use vignette in your portrait is better if you use it in this tool over the other tools that also has vignette. Now let us go down and you see style. This is going to be the way that you're gonna have the blur. It's a circle that is the one that we're using. I have no idea why would you use a star or a heart, but if you want to play with it, if you want to be creative, you have them here. His press X. We go back to the Tools and let's go to vignette that actually, it's very easy already. I mean, for sure many of you use Bing it already. If you go to the right side, it will be the widening it you see it's wider like light around if you go to the opposite side is going to be very dark. But you can see that he's very dark. And remember in the tool before, in the previous tool, it was very nice and that's why I use more than vignette when I'm doing portraits than this one. Okay, so if you want to be here, you add just a little bit, but then it became not dark anymore. That's why I use the other one. Then if you come to adjust, you have your options. The outer brightness, we already did it. Outer brightness. This, if you go to the left, is going to be dark. If you go to the right is going to be actually bright and white vignette, but there is an inner brightness. If we, for example, let's do this outer like exaggerated IVs. Okay, let's go to the left completely. Now let's go here to the inner brightness. You can see that you can actually add light to the center you see, but he's too much maybe like there in case you want to light up a little bit the center and make it the center of attention. But I don't use it that much because remember that everything we're doing now here is with the picture enroll like I didn't do anything with the picture. I just started to show you these tools. Normally when you come to these tools, you already did color correction, curves and everything to the picture. The picture is supposed to be already very, very good and you're supposed to be already ready to post after this little tweaks that you're doing with these tools. That's it. Let's go to the x. And in the next lesson where we were talking about double exposure, text and frames that will exposure is very nice. You will be able to fix the skies and things like that. I will show you these in the next lesson, text and frames and that st. And then after we're gonna start editing, so I'm excited. 13. Tools Part 7: Okay guys, Now for this lesson I chose this photo is from Lisbon in Portugal. And we're going to go to Tools and we're going to use double exposure. Double exposure is a very nice technique to use to replace the skies, to replace part of the picture. But most of the time is used for creativity. If you are a creative person, you will be able to do crazy things and crazy editings with this technique. I saw online a lot of pictures with double exposure that looks amazing. I mean, it's not, not at all. It's more like creativity, more like art, but it's very nice. I mean, you have to go and look for double exposures, Snapseed pictures online and you will find a lot of crazy stuff. But in this case, to learn how to use it, we're just going to replace this guy so we know actually how to use it. And then in the future you can start to open your mind and start to do creative things with this. The first thing to do because he's double exposure, is to use two pictures. So we have to open the image here on the bottom you can see open image and we're going to open this image. You see that this guy is very nice and we're gonna replace the sky of Arles, won't picture with this guy. First thing, opacity. Opacity is him 50% by default, we're gonna put it too close to a 100. It could be 100, but I don't know, let's leave it there. You can see that he's a sunset. And basically because the picture is the same size as the picture before, you can see actually there is matching. This guy in that picture is matching with the space of this guy here. So that's what we're going to do. And that's it, we did it. So now we're going to click Check. And now you will say, But what are you doing, Mario? You just put this picture on the top of the other. And it's true. What do you do is you come here, you see this arrow, curve arrow with these books and squares you're going to click here, we're going to view the edits. Then you have the double exposure here. This is the effect that we just apply. We're gonna open it and then we have three options. The garbage mean that he's basically to erase these editing that we did. A double exposure will be erased. The second one is the brush and the third one is to tune it. Actually you click here. We're going to go back to the effect and we're going to tune it again like opacity and all of these things that we did, well, we're going to do is to use the brush. What just happened is we came to the first picture, the picture that we're editing and our double exposure, the other picture went in the back. Now with a brush, we're going to add it in this picture. That is the idea of these double exposure. Let us increase it to 100%. So let's add it to a 100%. This guy, when you get close to the image, you can actually see that it's a circle there. And then we're going to paint the bag and you will have the picture already there. This is the picture from the back. If we do it in the middle of the picture, look what's gonna happen. You understand what I mean? We're actually painting. To erase these, we're going to go back here, decrease to 0. And then we're going to erase and come back to the normal picture that we are editing. Still, if you see these editing, it looks fake. It doesn't look like a proper sky. It looks like I added, you can tell that this was added. This is not part of the main picture. What you're going to do is actually now that we are here in double exposure 0, we're going to erase it. What I just did was actually to show you how to apply and how does it work. But now what we're going to do is we're going to increase, but we're not going to do a 100%, just 50%. So they're gonna merge with the picture. It's not gonna look that bad. It was looking before. Now very cell. We're going to add this guy, very subtle. Let's try not to touch the borders, but if you do, it doesn't matter because it's subtle. It's just 50% of opacity, as you can see. Now, it doesn't look that unreal, looks like actually it's part of the picture. This is a way that you can change this guy actually, if you take a nice picture and completely fat that the horizon is very nice. And this guy is awful, but the picture is good. You can look for a sky and let's try to look for a sky that is going to match the picture. Of course, you're not going to put sunset when the picture is at noon because he's not going to look real. This is how you can use it. You have an option here that says invert, and if you click it, it's basically inverting whatever you did. And now instead of this guy that we change, you have the picture from the back so we don't want to embarrass, we don't want to do that. So we go back to this and that's it. What we're going to do is to click X. We don't want to save that. We're still here, we're still in the double exposure. We're going to open it and you remember that we have this tune, you get close, you're gonna see Edit Filter. We're going to click here and we'd go back to where we were at. Remember, this is the picture that we opened on the top of the Lisbon picture from Portugal. And now that we're back, Let's go to opacity because this is actually a 100% opacity. We don't want that because I want to show you how to use this style and merge the pictures. Let's go like in the middle so it's both pictures visible. Let's go to style. And then you have these options here on how to merge the pictures you have lightened. For example, if you click here, you will see that it's a different way of merging the picture in the sites is very clear in this site you can see that actually you see properly one of the pictures, not both of the pictures, but in the middle is mixed. Now you go to dark and dark and is completely different. Now the sites are actually dark. Is actually Lisbon. The picture of his barn is more visible here in the sites than the other. Also in art, you have to play with this and realized, I actually like this in the middle. You have to play a realize which one is the best for you. For example, this one in the middle is very nice combination of colors that I will use it if I wanted to do like a silhouette of a person and put this picture over the silhouette. That will be very nice when I was showing you these kind of pictures that you can find online and you can see to get ideas on how to use these merchant of pictures in the double exposure, you have the overlay. So I will suggest you just to come here and start to experiment with a couple of pictures or even three pictures you want to mix all together. Just have fun and you will understand more how to use this effect. Let's click X. Now we know how to use it. Let's go to double exposure here and let's erase it. Now we come back here and let's press again the tools. So we're gonna do the next two tools that we have, text. We can add text in our pictures. This is very good for Instagram. If you want to post something we want to do, I don't know a story or whatever you want to use it for. Looking at this, you cannot detect and if you double-tap in the text is written there. So it's very easy to understand. You can actually erase it and you can put wherever you want. Then here in this image, you can actually change the colors. You see here on the bottom it says color. You can change the colors or black or you can put it like this, or green, whatever the colors you want, and then pass it. You can play with the opacity. You can actually change it completely or added here in Birth. Of course the picture goes in the front. Then you have this nice layer of pictures inside the letters. So it's very nice. Now let us go back to invert. So we went in the picture. If you use your two fingers and you would your two fingers over the text, you can actually make it bigger or smaller. You can actually move the texts with one finger, whatever you want to put it again with two fingers, you can actually twist it like this. Put it in an angle however you want. Now, in styles, of course, you can see different ways that you can use the text. You have a lot here, a lot of ways to use the text. So enjoy these and start to experiment. Imagine these you can do like stories here and things like that. So it's pretty cool. And the opacity, like I said, you can actually reduce the opacity. I don't use it much, but still you can use it for your stories. Press X and we go to the last one. The last one is the frames. You can actually add frames to your pictures. I like actually this one over here. It's very nice, like old-style you see, look at this one. And remember, in these, every single preset that you have here of the frames, you can see actually that you have these little two arrows. Remember what it means? It means that if you click it inside, you click it again, you have more options. So every single frame that you have here has more options inside. Look at this one. If you click it, you have more options. That's it, use the frame soul. So it's actually pretty cool if you want to do some post in Instagram, it would be very nice. Let's click X. And actually now we're ready. We learn all the tools and how to use them. In the next lesson, we're gonna start editing our pictures. 14. Exporting our Photo: Now before we go to the next section, we'll be doing full editing sessions. I will show you how to export. Actually, I almost forgot if you can see here in this corner you have these arrow pointing down and when you click it, you have four options. The top option is share, and that is self-explanatory. As soon as you click it, you will be able to share your picture on Instagram, facebook, or messy year, or send it as a message or Email, etc. But it depends on your device. If you are in a tablet, for example, you don't have access to WhatsApp, and in some cases you will not have that option. But if you are in a smartphone, don't worry, you will have all the options. Now the next three are the most important for me because are the ones that I use the most, you have safe. Save bees, creating a copy of your photo, actually, you're going to keep the original photo in your device, but you are creating a copy with all the editings you did, that you can actually come back with snaps it and keep editing it. So that's actually pretty cool. I use it sometimes I would suggest you to use it. If you are a beginner, you're starting to learn because I did. You can come back to the original photo and keep editing in different ways. You can save the editors you did and you can compare them. Remember that every time you save the picture is gonna be saved by default in your device where you have all your pictures. So don't worry, they're there, you're not going to lose them. Export, export is the one that I use the most as soon as I finished my editing. So you just click export and the picture is completely saved, the same place where all your pictures are saved in your device. And then from there you can share it wherever you want. It can be Instagram, facebook, or you can even send it to print. You can do with a picture, whatever you want. Now export US. This is in case you don't want to save the picture in the default folder, you want an, a specific folder. So in this case it's going to save the picture very similar than export is exactly the same, but it's going to give you the option to choose a folder that you want. This is the only difference, is very simple. Just start editing, start enjoying, and then the export part, you can see it's very simple. 15. Let's edit a landscape: Okay guys, I chose this photo from Venice to start editing our first tutorial loan full editing session. You know that because he's RA for boys, actually a DNG photo, you have the option of adjusting here and White violence, but we're going to adjust the picture later. For now, white balance could help us. So we're going to go, instead of trying to figure out which is the about white balance, we just go to Color Picker and we look for something like white color. And this is okay. And then we just click OK. You can see there's no much a change because their picture was already appropriately exposed and had a proper white balance, but still good to start with the white balance because like this, you know, which are the correct colors. Now I'm not going to use any of these filters because that's not the point. The point is to do it manually from the beginning, from 0. So let's go to the little pencil and I normally start cropping the picture. As you can see, it's cropped as the origin or you can go to square or you can go wherever you want, Instagram and you rotate and it's like four by five, you can do it like this. But I would like to use the whole picture so it's more visible and easier to understand all the editing. So I'm going to do so I'm gonna put original, rotate, original. There you go, and check. Let's go to curves. This is actually the second thing I do after cropping is the curbs because this is what he's going to give us the contrast in the picture. And then based on that, we can do all the rest of the corrections. So we go here. An S-curve. I always do. An S-curve is very nicer when you touch the points, you can see these squares. This is the middle point. We'd prefer to put it exactly in the middle. And then I do this S curve, as you can see still I want to give these very softly, these matte color. So I'm gonna go a little bit higher here because if I exaggerate, you can see that he's becoming very plain, very matte. Just a little bit here and then a little bit of punch of blocks over there. And I think that's okay for me. I'm not using the styles because I'm doing my own curb and also in the channels. I don't want to use any of these for now because I think it's okay. I'm going to play with colors after I'm gonna put check and we saved the curbs, and now we go to the tune image because we already did the curves and the grouping. That is the first things that I always do, brightness. I'm going to add a little bit of brightness just a little bit because actually the picture is properly exposed. But I'm going to add brightness because when I add contrast and shadows and things like that, brightness goes down a little bit. So it's going to compare this now here, so he's better contrast, I add a little bit of contrast. Then if I go to saturation, There's so many colors here that are not that visible. So I'm gonna add a little bit of saturation. Don't worry that then after with more editings, everything's gonna be more visible. Ambiance, I like to add amines because look at this guy, this guy is going to change and this guy is so nice, so blue. So if we add means Luca was happening, we just go maybe to 50. Remember that I don't like to exaggerate with the editors, but that is enough for me for now. Highlights. If you take out the highlights, you will see how the sky pumps up. You take out the highlights and now you see the details in the clouds. If you add highlights, softening this guy. So I don't want that. So I wanted to take out highlights and don't worry if you are taking out highlights also of the rest of the picture. Because then when you come to shadows, the shadows or you can put it up and recover these highlights that you took. But the best is that the sky so highlighted they did doesn't have many shadows. So when you play with the shadows, you are not touching this guy and this is actually what you wanted to do and why you took the highlights out. I think there is okay. Then warmth. I'm gonna give a little bit of warm colors because you can see that most of the colors are actually orange and yellow. So let's add a little bit of warmness. And you can see how alive is the picture now just with this little touch of warmness. Now we're done with these in this leak check. Let's go here again, independencies and let's go to Details, structure, structure and sharpening. I like to use these a lot in these kind of pictures because there's so many details in the windows, so many details that you can see everywhere here, even the guy here in the boat. Let's add some structure, maybe 50%. You can see that the picture already changed. It's very nice to other structure in these kind of pictures. Landscape photography, like if you are in the woods or the leaves, all of these things, it's amazing when you add the structure sharpening also, I'm going to add a little bit, but not too much. Remember that when you add sharpening, it adds noise and we don't want noise in our pictures, at least in this case. That's it. That's all I'm going to do here. And I'm gonna click here, check. And then we come here to the pencil. We already did the white balance crop, we already did the curves. I don't need to rotate anything, Not perspective. I don't need to expand anything. But maybe in this selective, what I'm going to do is to make this guy on the bottom I live. You see this guy here in the corner in the boat. Nobody sees it. So let's click here and we're creating actually hear a selective editing. And then what we're going to do is we're going to add brightness. We're getting a little bit of light to this guy. Then we cannot a little bit of contrast, then we cannot saturation. So we can give callers to him and is structured details so we can see actually more details in the boat. Little boat is not a big change. But if you see here, even though it's not a big change, you can actually see him now a little bit before it was like it didn't exist. I mean, I want the people to be attracted to the whole picture, but it's always good that there is one little spot that they can attract your attention. It's always interesting in the pictures. Always go to the pencil again. I'm not going to use brush for now, but I could use a healing. And in this picture I wouldn't use the healing in these parts, but I will do it just to show you how you can play with this two fingers in the picture, let's make it bigger. I am going to take out the antennas. It doesn't have to be perfect if you tried to do it very close to the ceiling, I'm going to show you what he's going to happen. It's something distortion there that you don't want. That's why when I do these, I just do it here and that seat. I don't need to get too close to the ceiling. It doesn't matter if you have these little, little things here, because remember that we just zoom into picture when you have the victory is not gonna be that zooming. So it's okay, it's not gonna be noticeable the same here, That's it. I don't want to risk more of this part. And also the same here is just there and also here just there. Now two fingers again in the picture. Because we have another one here. Look at this. I mean, it's okay if I will be posting the picture, I will not take these out. But just for the purpose of this lesson, let's do it. Just there. I wouldn't, I wouldn't dare to do this year. But let's try. You see, it gets these distortion that I don't like. So I will leave it there. And that's it. So let's double-click here and then you can see they do, don't notice the mistakes are these things now because this is so little in the picture, but something I would like to fix is this. I don't know if you notice that two fingers to make it bigger. Did you see this spot here? This is actually a mistake in the sensor of the camera. So what we can do actually is to paint this spot here. And that's it. It's already fixed as you can see. And I think there's another one here. You can see here there is a circle is not that visible, but I don't like it. I want this perfect. So now it's off. That's how you use the healing tool you see you don't exaggerate, you just do little things and that's enough. We still have some antennas here, but it's okay, Let's leave them there. That's the reality of our live. We cannot figure fake everything. Let's click here to check and we're done. Because go to Tools. Then I think I would like to add some HDR scape. I normally don't use these presets that they have here unless I'm doing something as specific. But in this case with this picture, I will leave it like that. But well, let's do this HDR scape. I like to use in this case because there's no people here. I like to use the strong. Let me see how it looks. Define a strong. Let's go too strong. Let's go to adjust and the filter strand, we're going to take out the filter strength and we're just going to leave a little bit of the filter strand. As you can see now the picture lose a little bit of brightness because all the editings we did, it contrasts. And indeed like these shadows and all of these things took out a little bit of the brightness of the picture. So what we can do is come to brightness and add a little bit of brightness maybe around here. And now I think the picture is properly exposed and we can click check. It's done if you want to see the picture, how it was before and how it is now, you can just touch the picture with the finger without taking their finger out, just holding the finger there. And you will see how the picture was. Look at the picture when we started editing, we thought that the picture was nice. Now look how he's with the editing. It is an amazing picture you've got already posted. Let's see what else can we do? What do you think if we add some vignetting? It's not the vignette here. And let's go to the black vignette. Of course not like that just a little bit here. There you go. Let's see what happened. If we go to the inner brightness. If we take cow the inner brightness a little bit like there, I like how it looks as you can see, so we can recheck and I think that's saved. We have a nice picture now, let's check before and as check after. What do you think this picture is okay to be posted already? That's it. Let's go to the next lesson. I want to, I want to edit this portrait of the girl that we're using for the tools to teach how the tools work. Let's do the editing. But from zeros. 16. Let's edit a Portrait: Okay guys, we're back with this girl. We're going to do the editing, full editing tutorial with this portrait that is very nice. So the first thing I do, white balance, Let's see, I think it's a proper white balance already, but let's choose the color picker and let's go around over here. I can see that he's getting a little bit more of warmness to the picture. If I go here, it's okay. Application sets, so it is what it is. Let's click check and that's it like before. I'm not going to use any of these presets. Let's go to the pencil. Now, first thing I do is to crop the picture. And this picture is perfect for Instagram. So I'm gonna use the five by four. Normally if the picture is a square or rectangular, is gonna go by five by four by default. But now because the picture is a stand-in, IS goes to four by five. This is perfect because that's actually what Instagram is asking. I don't want too much space on the top, so I'm gonna go down. I think there is perfect. I'm gonna check. Okay, now we're gonna go to the pencil again. And the second thing I do, you remember last editing? Second thing I do is curves. For me, the curbs are already very easy because he's always three dots, the center dot when you click here in Snapseed, it makes it so easy because all these squares come and I like to put it exactly in the middle. Now here you're gonna go a little bit high to give these highlights. And then here for the shadows, and then you create already these contrasty photo. That is what I want. I'm going to add a little bit of math here, like these plain color or a little bit, just a little bit if I exaggerate, look what happened. You see it's very plain. There's no much contrast, but here just a little bit. Why? Because I'm gonna do so much editing in this picture that everything's going to change and he's going to give you too much color. So I think here this is going to help. In the last editing, I was adding a point here and a little bit of a punch of the blacks, but I don't need it now because this is a portrait, even though you can see some shadows in the face. Don't worry because we're going to fix that. I'm not gonna choose any styles because I'm doing my own curve and also in the channel I'm not gonna choose any colors. I don't want to change the colors because we're going to do it now with other tools. So let's click Check. Now let's go to tune image. We're gonna start tuning the image brightness like before. I like to add a little bit of brightness. Why? Because when I started to add contrast and all editings, this is going to become a little bit darker, but I'm not going to exaggerate because the point of this picture is the face because he is a portrait. And I'm gonna do this later with the portrait option. Let's go to contrast also a little bit. We already add contrast with the curves. Let's go here to saturation. Just a little bit less. Don't exaggerate because when you are having a portrait and you add saturation, that picture tends to go very orangey. Look at this. You see the skin tends to go very orangey. Let's just add a little bit of saturation is don't exaggerate. Now we're going here to ambiance. I never use ambiance in portraits, but you never know. I will show you what it's going to happen if I add ambiance in portraits, it goes, but this is not normal and if you go to the opposite side, it goes dark. Even if you are a little bit of ambiance, I think we could fix this with the portrait option later, like highlight and do their face is spotlight. So let's wait, let's be patient and let's wait for the next tool to do that. Now, we go to highlights. In highlights, I like to take out a little bit of the highlights, but don't worry because then I'm gonna recover them with the shadows. And the best of this is that you're going to see the change in the hair. The hair when you take all the shadows has more details. Look what's happening. Can you see it's more details in the hair, so I'm gonna leave it like that. And then in warmth, I'm not going to change the warmth because the skin tends to go very orange. So I'm going to just leave it like that and check. We already did most of these top editings rotate. I don't want to rotate anything. I don't want to change any perspective. I don't want to spot anything but selective. I think we could do something. We're gonna go to the nose because he's the center. Now it creates a circle around the face that we don't see, but it's there. And then we're gonna do brightness a little bit and he's just for the face. It just a little bit don't exaggerate because like I said before, these kind of brightness and these kind of editings are gonna be done later in the portrait section. Contrast a little bit. Saturation. I don't want to add an Instructure. I don't want to add because he's gonna give a lot of details that we don't want in the face. So let's put check. And actually we couldn't go to details that we didn't do the details, this inverted triangle here. And indeed those we're gonna do something different if we add structure or if we add sharpening in the whole picture, the face is going to become, but it's not gonna be appropriate portrait, but we're going to do it and we're gonna do it properly. Look at this structure and then we go to sharpening and we add sharpening. You can see actually the close look at the clothes, the overall, the t-shirt, the background, even the hands, everything is so nice that the face went wrong because sharpening kills the portrait and also structured kills the portrait. But what are you going to do if you want the whole picture like this? But the phase is the problem. Now, what you can do is just click Check, like it's done. And then you're gonna come here on the top where you see this arrow and these things over here, these little books Bu edits and you can see here details. This is what we just did. We don't want to erase it. We want to use the brush. And when you click in the brush, you're gonna put in bird, because we want the picture to have all of these that we did in details like sharpening and its structure. We do invert. And as you can see, this is what we did. You know all the details in the overalls in the t-shirt, but the phase is the problem. It's to sharpen details and we don't want that. So what do we do two fingers, we make it bigger and then we're going to do you can see here detail this is 100, now we 1010. So we wanted to erase this and then we add the brush. We're gonna erase these effects from the face. You can see the phase is not touched by these crazy sharpening and increase the details of structure as you can see, but even the hair you can see now the hair, all these details that were not here before, but that's it. We just did where we want it. Now everything is sharpen and everything is with these details on the structure but the face. So now we can check, we go back with the arrow here, and now we can go back and keep editing. Now, I don't want to use the brush. I don't think I need to use the brush but healing, yes, because there is something that maybe you didn't realize. Did you see them mistake here in the picture? If you've seen the t-shirt, she has these little like the t-shirt is not good. We're going to come here. We're going to erase this and that's it. Now we can click check. And then we do fingers, we make the picture the regular size. We can go forward now. Now these effects like HDR, glomerular Donna contrast, all of these effects, black and white or grand Taranto looks. These are effects to play with the pictures, to have fun with the pictures. If you want to be creative, if you want to get crazy and start to do these things with the picture. But in this case is a portrait. I don't want to get crazy with the portrait. I wanted to do a proper editing with a portrait, so I'm not gonna touch this. But if you want to play with it, if you want to get crazy, do it and then post a picture in the course that would be fun to see all these creativity that you guys have. So let's go to portrait. Okay, here, portrait. In portrait. We already used this picture when I was teaching you this tool. And we saw that none of these combo and eyes and smooth where like perfect for this picture. I'm actually going to do it manually. Let's go to adjust and we're gonna start with phase spotlight. Remember I told you I don't want to add much brightness because with the face spotlight we can do it. Let's add this face Spotlight actually two fingers in the picture. Let's make it a little bit here. And then let's add these Facebook. Like if we exaggerate, look, it's too much. Is that just a little bit over here? And I think that's okay. Now we go to Skin Smoothing just a little bit. Don't exaggerate. It doesn't look good when you exaggerate it doesn't look not to. I clarity also, remember if we go too far, I'm gonna use the two fingers and make it bigger. If you go too far, it looks like a card, it looks like a drawing. That's not correct. Have you ever opened a Magazine, Vogue magazine, or a good magazine and look at picture like this? No. And every time I go to Facebook, I see a lot of people editing the pictures like this. This is not, not at all. Even less over here is perfect. Now that this is done, we can come back to the regular size of the picture. You can see that it looks not really, it doesn't look fake. Now a skin tone we already checked. I don't want to use any of these ones with her face, these skin tones, they don't work. They just don't work. So we're gonna leave it there. Check. We're gonna come to the pencil again. We're almost done with this picture, but I would like to art a little bit of lens blur, even though normally I wouldn't are there. But I want to show you how this works properly. With two fingers. We're gonna make it bigger. I think these would be okay. I'm gonna put this down in the center of hers, so everything's gonna be okay, but still it looks so fake. So we're going to adjust this first transition. We're gonna make the transition bigger. Then we're going to go up in blur strength and we're gonna go down these plus 30 plus 22 March, maybe even plus tan or plus eight. It's okay. I think that's okay. Plus eight. Now the vignette strand, Let's add vignette. Let's add a little bit of vignette. I'm going to add more vignette, but this one is softening the vignette that supposed to already existed, but we're gonna add it later a little bit more. I think there is, perfect. I think this is okay. Let's click Check. Now we're going to do a vignette like I was mentioning. Let's add a little bit of vignette. Don't exaggerate. I think there is going to be perfect. That's it. You can actually do the inner brightness also. And then we'll do a little bit, just a little bit. So actually here inside the vignette, it's gonna be a little bit brighter. There you go. Check. I think this is it. This is it. If you come to the pencil and you start to look for more options, this is not correct when you finish the editing or you are going forward and you see that the picture is already good. I would suggest you to stop because over editing is not good. I think I feel good with the picture. I don't want to do anything else. And the best is this. Take your finger, put it on the top of the picture, hold it and look how it was the picture before new cow. It is the picture now is so cool, isn't it? Now the only thing that you have left is to click here in the arrow that is pointing down. And you export the picture. 17. Full Editing Moody Dark: Now these editing is special because it's a style that I'm using now a lot and it's called the moody dark editing. It's very famous for sure you heard about it. So yes, you can do it with snaps it with Snapseed, you can do basically everything. You just have to try to mix in use all the techniques that you learned in this course. And he's not gonna be the last full editing session I will do. I will ask you to help me with that because these courses forever I'm gonna be implementing a new classes to these cores, new full editing. So it's all up to you. Iv is Snapseed updates something. I will create a new class to teach that update. And if you want, if you want, there's something specifically like, you know what, Mario, I would like you to edit. I don't know a picture in the beach or a sunset or I don't know whatever you want, let me know, Talk to me. I will try to help you in my best and I will try to create a new class with the new editing for you. So it's all up to you. More classes can come. Let's start with disease very easy. And as the Moody, you know, that we have to try to desaturate the picture and create something dark and something like mysterious in this picture. I chose this picture because this picture actually is very simple. I think everybody can go outside in the park or in the woods and take a picture like that. Look at this. There's nothing out of ordinary in this picture. It's even Sahni Because you can see the sun is coming. You can see the passage here is illuminated. It's actually very interesting, but it's not out of ordinary. Let's go unless start to edit the first thing that I do remember, crop the picture. We're going to look for Instagram five by four. But as you can see, because the picture is in a horizontal position, it goes like that so we can rotate. And now we have the Instagram, now we're going to move it. These introns, it looks like an entrance, a little dark door there. Let's put it in the center and I think there is gonna be okay. Now if you're following the whole course, you know that the second thing I like to do are the curves. I like to do these strong curves, the three points. And then I go here a little bit. The middle has to be in the Middle East is a little bit here. This is actually called the strong curve. It's not a mild, it's very strong. This is my style now, I like to use this high contrast, but you know what, it was not always like this. When I started, I was actually using less contrast. Let me tell you whatever you chose, whatever your style become at some point in your life, you're gonna change it. You're gonna change it few times. My style changed like three times already. Now because these editing his moody, Let's give this plane to the colors, playing colors. Let's go here. Little flat you see, you're giving me, we exaggerate. You can see that we're covering the whole color here. It's just a little bit because then with other tools we're gonna add more of this feeling and that's it. I think now we can go to the tune image section. Here we're going to add brightness. I mentioned before that I'd like to add brightness because during the editing, dark is gonna come in, is going to compensate the darkness that we're going to add with the contrast and other things that we're going to keep adding. Okay, I think plus ten is okay, this don't exaggerate in contrast also lists, don't take it too far because we already added with the curves, I think 90s. Okay, and then let's go to saturation. Here is the difference. This is moody dark. We don't want the picture to be saturated, so we're gonna take out saturation, but not too much, I think minus nine, it's already enough. You can see the picture is already changing, it's already becoming a little darker. Let's go to ambience. Remember what I said about ambiance? I described ambience like giving life to the picture. We want to take the life out of the picture. Let's go to minors. C minus 2022. I think that would be enough. And we're already taking the live out of the picture. And this is the moody, dark editing that we want. Let's keep going. Highlights and shadows. This is something that you have to put in your mind every time you do moody dark, you're going to take out highlights and you're going to add the shadows. This is always in the moody dark editing. This is like you can even start with that because you know that you're going to do it a lot. In highlights. For example, we can take out a law like we can go even to 70. So let's leave it there, 7071. And then when we go to shadows, we have to add, not necessarily exactly the same, but we have to get close to it so we can go to, I don't know, 5060, I think in 50 will be okay around there. And now let's go to the next one. There would be warm. I don't think I'm gonna add worm because when you added it becomes very more light, it becomes very warm. We want the picture to be called, but not too much because then it's not correct. It's actually not natural. Let's go maybe just two minus something minus six. I think it's enough. Now let's go to the pencil again and let's go to details. Remember I mentioned before one of the classes that When you have woods and all of these details like also when you have houses or a CD, you have so many details in the picture that you want to expose. In details, I will add the structure and now we'll add like a fair amount of structure, maybe like in 35 in this picture. Now, then we go to sharpening, and I'm also going to add sharpening. And let's do like maybe 202120, something like that. Twenties. I know that when you add a lot of sharpening, It's going to add noise, but it doesn't matter because in these kind of pictures noise actually help. Let's leave it there, I think indeed aware. Okay, Let's check. Let's go now to the brush and we're gonna do saturation. We're gonna start to minus ten. And what I'm going to do is I'm gonna click the mask here, the little eye so you can see what I'm doing. I'm going to take out the saturation in most of the picture, but not in all the picture, most of the picture in minus ten, as you can see here, I put minus ten. So I'm going to start to paint and be careful when you do these, because if you pass twice in the same spot is going to add double the effect and you don't want that minus ten is enough. As you can see, I didn't touch the passage because I want the passage to be busy role. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to increase so minus five. I'm still gonna take out saturation from the passage, but not minus ten. I'm gonna take minus five, so it's a little less. And we go like this. And I think that's enough. Now I'm gonna take out the mosque and you will see what happened. The picture is really nice. The picture He's like really dark. It's scary. He's not like in the beginning, but let's keep editing and at the end we're going to compare this quick check. I went to add selective, selective, and I'm gonna put the selective here in the middle of the passage, and I'm going to add a little bit of brightness. Maybe contras may be saturation. I'm gonna leave it at 0 IS structure. Yes, because I want these Spanish to be visible. And I'm actually going to click here, add, and I'm gonna add another one here. And again I'm going to add brightness, I'm going to add contrast. I'm not going to add saturation is structured. Yes, but if you see I'm not adding too much of everything. I'm adding just a little bit of everything. And now let's click check. Now I think I want to use a filter. Let's see. Remember we were checking these beans which filters and he would make into picture like really scary. And we can check all the styles that they have. All of them are giving a very good work. Even this one, the number 12 look at disease, so dark and scary, political for the first to second. The third I think I liked the third. He's like All these leaves are dead, right? It looks like all the leaves are dead. Let's see the 12th. It's green here. I think that is the best. Okay, let's choose the third. And what we're going to do is actually to play with the strength of the style. We go to style strength and I don't want to be adding a lot. It goes back if you take it out, It's basically not adding anything. So here we're going to adjust a little bit of strength. Let me see if I go here. No, no. I think there is enough. I think there is OK. Now here also, if I move the fingernail, you can see being yet strength. I think I want to add in yet, not maybe around there, it's gonna be okay. I think we are done. You know what? Let's do something very fast. It's too shiny. Here's too much highlighting these parts. So what I'm going to do is I'm gonna use a brush and I'm gonna use this poacher. I'm gonna go to decrease exposure, maybe in minus three. I'm gonna take out this part over here, you see? Over here I'm gonna show you the mosque, what I just did. These I took the exposure but just minus 0.3. Note March and look at the difference. Completely different. I think I like it. Check we have the picture done. Now for you to understand what happened because this is a picture that eats, it gives you something scary picture. He's like, I wouldn't pass through that passage, you know. But if I touch the picture to see how it was before, look how it was before. It's actually sunny, very green. It's like a spring. I wanted to pass through that passage. Maybe there's some little cows in the other side. But you take all the finger and that's scary. So this is the idea of the moody dark and this is something that is telling you that any picture that you take can be changed and you can express your style with editing. 18. Project For The Course: For the project of this course, I would like you to post a picture that you edited thing, snaps it using everything you learned in this course. And I would like you also to tell us something about that picture. I promise I will give you a feedback. 19. 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