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1. Introduction: Hello there and welcome to this class where I'm going
to show you how to edit your images on your phone
using an app called Snapseed. I'm a YouTuber and
a photographer, and sometimes I
don't want to carry my big camera on the street and I'm only
carrying my phone, but I want to be able to edit
those images on the morph. This is a beginners tutorial. We're going to cover some
intermediate techniques, but it doesn't matter if you've never edited and image before. In this class, you're
going to learn how to download the app on your phone. How to import your
own images either from a camera or your
phone's gallery. How to make different
adjustments to the exposure of the image, the white balance, the dimensions and other
selective adjustments. How to remove unwanted objects, how to export your image
with the best quality. And I'm also going to talk
briefly about the differences between shooting raw and JPEG. So hopefully I'll see you on the other side. And
thanks for joining.
2. Snapseed Download and Setup: First things first, we need to download the app on our phone. It's available for both
Android and iOS devices. So either from the
Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. In my case, for this course, I'm using an Android device. So I'm going to open up the Play Store and I'm
going to type in Snapseed. I already have it
installed on my phone. But in your case, you would see an Install button
and then you click there. And once the app has
been downloaded, you can click Open. Same for the App Store, for iPad or iPhone. You just type in Snapseed
and you download the app to your phone
or your iOS device. And before moving on
to the next lesson, we're going to tweak
one simple setting to get the best results,
editing our pictures. So what we're going
to open up Snapseed. And we're going to click here on the upper right corner
on the three dots. And we're going to
click on Settings. And then make sure down here, format and quality,
we choose 100%. By default, it's going to
probably be jpeg 95 per cent, but we're going to choose 100. This will make our
files a bit larger, but they're also
going to be a bit sharper and look their best. So once that's done, we should say pick
100 and we come to the upper left corner and
click the arrow to go back. And now we can move
on to the next lesson where we're going to talk about
the interface of the app. And I'm going to show
you how everything works and how to edit
to your own images.
3. Importing and Applying Filters: Now that we've downloaded
Snapseed to our phone, Let's talk a bit about
the interface of the app, which is quite simple
and very intuitive. Once you open the app
for the first time, you can either click the
upper left hand corner where it says open, or click on the big plus
icon to open up a picture. Once you tap on the
plus icon snaps, it will prompt a message
telling you that you need to allow the app to access
your images and media. Once you tap on the plus icon, Snapseed is going to load all the images that you
have stored in your phone. So let's say in my
case, for example, I want to edit the second
image that we have here. So I'm going to
tap on the image. And Snapseed is going
to open up that image. And as you can see
here to the right, we have a column with
different filters that are similar to Instagram
filters for example. So we can try them
by clicking on them. And then you can see the
result in real time. So I can scroll down. And for example, choose morning. And this is the effect that Snapseed applies to my picture. I can keep scrolling down. Let's say I want a
black and white image. I'm going to choose a fine art. I'm going to click on it. And that's the effect that
it gives to my image. So you can scroll
down or scroll up, Let's say you want to go
back, tap on current. And this goes back to
the original image. Once again, let's
say we scroll down, we chose accentuate, but we
don't like the final log. We can click the cross and it goes back to
the default setting. So these are the filters that
you can apply in Snapseed. And those filters
are represented by this rainbow icon on the right. And as you can see, we
have two more icons. We have a pencil or
the download icon. So let's go back. And that's the main
interface of Snapseed. Now we're going to move
on to the next lesson where we're going to
use the developed tool, which is the pencil icon here. And we're going to actually edit our image from
start to finish.
4. Basic Photo Adjustments: If you put your
smartphone vertically, this is what it will look like. Below. It says either
looks tools or export. The logs panel is the one we previously saw that applies
filters to our images. The tools panel is the one
we're going to check now. So here we have many
different options to tune our images and make our own edits without applying filters
that come baked in. So we can either scroll up or down to see more
or less options. So let's begin with
the tune image icon. We're going to tap there. And we can either scroll up or down to choose between
the different options. So for example,
let's tap and hold. And while I hold down, I'm going to scroll
down to highlights. Now that I've chosen highlights, I'm going to tap and
hold and then scroll to the left to bring down the
highlights of this image. So I tap, hold and move
my finger to the left. And then I'm going to let go. Now I can tap and hold and
scroll down to the shadows. As you can see in the
lower part of the image. There's not many detail in
the shadows. It's very dark. I'm going to tap and hold
and then move my finger to the right to bring up the
shadows of the image. Like this. I'm going to let go. Let's tap and hold, roll up a bit more to contrast, move the slider to the right. And let's say I like
the look so far. So I'm going to
click the check mark to approve these changes. Now let's say we're okay with the changes we've
applied to our image. But we want to take a look
at the before and after. We just have to tap and
hold on top of the image. And this is the before. If we let go, this is the after. Once again, let's tap and
hold to see the before. And if we let go,
we see the after. It's already making
quite a difference. If you take a look at the
upper right-hand corner, there is three icons. We have the three dots
to access the settings. We also have the
information of our image, so the image details, and we have this icon here. If we click there,
we can either undo the previous step or we can
revert to the original image. So let's say we want to undo the last step we
will click onto, then it will go back once. And if we click again and we want to redo, we can
do that as well. Now let's say you want to go
back to the original image, we can tap here and of course, press revert and
Snapseed is going to tell you that all
changes will be lost. Let's keep on editing
this picture. So let's press the pencil
icon once again to develop, we can come to the curves
icon, for example. And we can edit the whole
cars is adjustment. So we have a diagonal line on a grid and it's going to
show us from the darkest to the bright spots
of our image by clicking and dragging on
top of the diagonal line, we're going to create
different adjustment points. And by moving those points, we're going to make our
image brighter or darker. So we can bring this down here, and this up here, and this here, this here. So we just clicked
and drag and we're creating an adjustment point. Once again, if you'd like it, you're going to click
the check mark. And if you don't, you're
going to click the cross. If I like these changes, I'm going to click
the check mark. Let's tap and hold to see
them before and the after.
5. White Balance, Cropping, and More: Let's click here. And we can of course choose
white balance, for example. This is going to change the
temperature of the image. So if you want to make it
cooler or warmer, for example, you're going to tap and move to the left
to make it cooler, or move to the right
to make it warmer. And as you can see, there's three different icons
here below our picture. So if we press the first one, this is the auto white
balance feature. It's going to automatically adjust the color
temperature of the image. But you can also click here. If you want to change
the tint, for example, you can bring it to the
left or to the right. And once you're happy
with the results, you can either click the
check mark to approve the changes or click
the cross icon to undo. So let's undo this and go
back to the tools icon. Let's say you want
to crop your image. Snapseed automatically shows
you all of these options. So you can tap on
square three by 24, by 316, by nine, and
so on and so forth. Or you can go back
to the original. Or if you choose free, you can click and hold
and then move down or up so you can crop
however you want. Then once you're done, you click the check mark and this is
your new cropped image. In my case, I don't want my
image to look like that. So I'm going to
tap here and undo, and we've gone back to
our original image. Let's take a look at
some other adjustments. Remember, we can scroll down
or up to see more options. Let's take a look at the
brush icon for example. Let's choose the
saturation brush. And we can paint on top. To give it more saturation. We can change the saturation
by tapping on the arrows. Erase what we just did
or bringing backup. So as you can see next
to the checkmark, we have an eye icon. If we click there,
we can actually see a mask showing us where we've applied this
saturation brush. And if we tap again,
it disappears. We can also come to
the lower-left corner again to the brush icon. And instead of saturation, we can choose exposure. We can bring up
the exposure here, and let's paint in the lower part of the
image to increase the exposure of the
trees. As you can see. It's painting. The exposure on top. Of course it doesn't
look very real. It doesn't look very natural. But this way you can see
the effect being applied. And if we bring
down the exposure, we can also darken the area. If we'd like it. As usual, we can press the check mark. And if we don't, we
can press the cross. Now we can move on to the next lesson
where we're going to take a look at the healing tool, which is going to
allow us to remove unwanted objects
from our picture. But we're going to open a different picture
for this purpose.
6. Removing Unwanted Objects: In this lesson, we're going
to take a look at how to remove unwanted objects
from our images. So we're going to
open a new image. In this case, I'm
going to select this car picture I took
a couple of days ago. And I'm going to move
to the tools icon, the pencil icon here. And I'm going to tap
on the healing icon. As you can see near the
car below the hood, there's like a piece of
paper on the ground. I'm going to remove that
with the healing tool. So first I'm going to zoom in by pinching with both fingers. Moving this down a bit. I'm going to zoom in a
bit more and I'm going to try to erase
that piece of paper and those leaves on the floor with the
healing tool selected, I'm going to paint on top
of the piece of paper. And I'm going to paint on
top of the leaf, this leaf. And once again here, of course, if I want to undo, I can tap on this arrow here. Has many times as I need to, I can also redo by tapping
on the right arrow. Let's do that once more. Let's tap on top of the
objects we want to remove, and that's how it
will look like. Now, let's zoom out
with both fingers. If we take a look at the
upper right-hand corner, we have an icon to see
the before and after. So if we tap and hold, this was before and if we
let go after, before, after. As you can see, the healing tool is very easy to use and it does a pretty decent job erasing objects that we
don't want in our pictures. And of course, once we're done removing everything
that we don't want, we can tap on the check mark. And that's the image
we have right now. Now that we've seen some of
the adjustments that we can make and how to remove unwanted
objects from our images. Let's move on to the next lesson where I'm going to show you how I edit one of my own images
from start to finish.
7. Sample Image Edit: Now I'm going to show
you how I edit one of my own pictures from start
to finish using Snapseed. So first of all, I'm
going to open up my picture from my
media on my phone. I'm going to choose
this picture here. This was a quick shot. I took walking down the street. I really liked in this
building, but as you can see, there's some issues
with the shadows, the highlights,
and some things we have to remove from the image. So once again, we're going
to tap on the tools icon, which is the pencil icon. And we're going to start
by tuning the image. Going to scroll
down to highlights. I'm going to bring
them down a bit by tapping and
moving to the left. Then I'm going to
scroll down to shadows. I'm going to lift them up by moving my finger
to the right, all the way up, like so. I'm also going to
increase the saturation of the image a bit to
bring the colors to life. So I'm going to scroll up to saturation and then slide my
finger to the right a bit. Just a bit. Not too much. I
usually recommend not going too overboard
with the adjustments. Now, let's scroll up to contrast and let's increase
the contrast a bit as well. So tap and slide your finger
to the right. Like so. And this looks fine for now. So let's tap on the checkmark. Now let's take a look
at the before and after by tapping and
holding on the image. This was before. This is where we are
right now, before. Right now. So we lifted up the shadows, we brought the highlights
down a bit and we increased the contrast
and the saturation. Now let's keep
editing this image. Let's tap the pencil
icon once again. Let's tap on the healing tool. And as you can see on
the upper corners, we have some power lines
that I want to remove. So we could either
crop the image or try to remove them
with the healing tool. So let's try to do that. I'm going to pinch
in and zoom in. So one power line
has been removed and the one on the left is trickier because we have some clouds. So we're going to try
and remove them as well. Let's see if we can.
Obviously those clouds weren't there in
the first place, but I think it
looks good enough. And if I didn't
tell you there were some power lines there,
you wouldn't notice. So let's finish
removing the things. We don't want. This light here. That doesn't look very good. So let's undo and try
to do it once more. Much better. So let's
tap on the checkmark. Let's zoom out
with both fingers. And this is what we have now let's take a look
at the before and after tap and hold
to see them before. Like code to see the
after, before, after. I think this looks much better. So let's keep
editing a bit more. Let's tap on the pencil icon and we're going to
tap on selective. This tool allows you to dial in the adjustments a bit more. So I'm going to select
a color and then enhance that color in
the overall image. So I want to improve
the sky a bit. So I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to move
my finger around. I'm tapping and holding, going to press my
finger on the sky. And now if I tab
and scroll down, I can change the brightness, contrast, saturation
or the structure. So if we leave it in brightness, I can bring it to the
right or to the left. And as you can see,
it's only affecting the color that I selected before the area that I selected. So let's bring down
the brightness here. And if you tap with two fingers, you can make this
bigger by moving it to the right or smaller by
moving it to the left. So it's affecting more
of the image or less. So in this case,
I want to affect the whole sky of the image. Now I'm going to tap and
hold and scroll down to contrast and bring
up the contrast a bit. I'm going to tap and
hold and scroll down to saturation and bring the
saturation up a bit as well. Now I can tap on the
checkmark, wants more. Going to zoom out. And now let's take a look at
the before and after. So tap and hold. Before, after, before, after. One more tip. If you want to check one of the adjustments, you can click on this icon here. The one we use to undo
a step or revert to the original image right
below it says view edits. So if we type here, we can see all the
edits that we've made. So if we tap on healing, we can see each adjustment up
until the healing process. And if we tap on selective, we can see what we did
with the selective tool. So this was the original
image and we can tap on tune image to see
what we did there. Then we can tap on healing
to see what we did there. And last but not
least, we can tap on selective to see
what we did there. So this was the original and
this is what we have now, of course, we can go back by pressing the left
arrow key here. And I could leave
my image like that. You can also come here to the pencil icon and
add a vignette, for example, if you want to. But as I said, my tip is not to go too crazy with
the adjustments, tried to keep them as natural as possible so we can
increase the vignette. But it obviously
doesn't look very good. So let's tap on the cross icon. And in my case, I'm going to
leave my image like this. So now we can move on to the
next lesson where I'm going to show you how to save
and export your image.
8. Exporting Your Images: Once we've finished
applying filters to our image or making
our own adjustments, we're ready to save the
edited picture on our phone. So to our right we have
three different icons. And the last one is the
one we're going to tap to save or export
our final picture. So we're going to tap there.
And as the name implies, we can share it to another app, Instagram for
example, or WhatsApp. Or we can either tap on Save, to save a copy of the
edited image on our phone. So in my case, I'm just
going to click Save. That's it. Now if I were to look inside my
media on my phone, I would find the
newly edited picture. And now we can move on to the next lesson before
ending this course, when going to briefly talk
about the differences between JPEG and raw images. These are two different
file formats. One of them has better quality and Snapseed allows
you to edit both. So for example, you
could also edit pictures taken with a
camera on your phone.
9. RAW vs JPG: As I said previously, Snapseed allows you to edit
both RAW and JPEG images. What does this mean
in practical terms, if you shoot RAW, you're going to be able to
recover much more detail, much more information from the highlights and the shadows. So raw images take up more space and not every
phone can shoot in RAW, usually only the
high-end phones can. But if you have the possibility choosing between RAW and JPEG, always shoot in RAW format. For this lesson, I'm going
to show you an image that I shot with this camera
in raw format. I've imported the image to my phone and I'm going to
edit it with Snapseed. The three pictures on top are jpegs and the one on the bottom, as you can see as a raw image. Let's open that
picture with Snapseed. So we can change the exposure. We can move right or left to increase or reduce the exposure. We can also come here to the highlights
and bring them down. And bring up the shadows. Bring up the contrast. Saturation. And we can also change
the white balance. So let's say auto for example. And this is what
it will look like. And then we can save our image. Let's see the before and after. And this was before.
This is the chapter. And once again, we
can also come here to the tools and keep on editing. So let's tap on details, structure, sharpening, and then increase the
sharpening a bit. Let's tap on the checkmark. Tap on the pencil
icon once again, let's come here to selective. Move your finger to the sky. With two fingers. We're going to make this
bigger and we're going to bring down the
brightness of the sky. Like so. We're going to increase the contrast a bit
and the structure. Let's tap on the checkmark. And this is what
it will look like. So once again, let's tap
and hold to see the before. And let go to see the after. And that's how you
edit a raw image. Just know that
usually phones shoot images and jpeg and
cameras enroll. So even if you can't open
raw images on your phone, you can edit them in Snapseed. Once you've opened the raw image and made your adjustments, you can save the
image to JPEG format, and now we can open the
final image in our gallery. So this was the raw image and this is the
edited JPEG version.
10. Class Recommendations: Before finishing this class, just a quick recommendation. If you want to learn how
to edit your own images, but don't have the
time or simply don't want to think about
making adjustments. You can check out my course, photo editing and
Illumina for beginners. This is an artificial
intelligence based software and you can get awesome results
editing your pictures. And of course, if you're
interested in video editing software or any
other of my courses, please feel free to
check out my profile. I will be uploading more classes about photography
and image editing. Once again, thank
you for joining. Take care, and hopefully I'll
see you in the next one.
Dan Prizont, Photographer & YouTuber
