hello friends
welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome my name is Christine
today I'm going to show you how I edit my Instagram photos if you have seen
some of my recent videos I just uploaded a video on how I take my own photos at
home so if you haven't seen that yeah I'll go ahead and link it above and
below I also shared a video on how to post if you're ever taking photos and
you feel like you look super awkward you don't really know what to do with your
hands or how to pose that is a great posing video and I show you all the
beginner basics and some of my favorite poses that I love to do for standing and
sitting photos so if you haven't seen that either I'll go ahead and link it
above and below today's video is kind of like the third piece of that to getting
like the perfect Instagram photo if you guys aren't aware I am a full-time
content creator so making videos here on YouTube and on Instagram is my full-time
job also before we go ahead and dive into the tutorial this hoodie is from
talentless I love it and this is actually the men's hoodie I want to show
you guys how I edit both my iPhone photos and my camera photos most of the
photos on my feet I take with my camera I'm also gonna show you some of my
favorite photo editing apps as well so let's go ahead and dive into it so this
is my phone I have the iPhone 11 max it is my favorite and I'm gonna walk you
through first how I edit my iPhone pictures these are some of the photo
editing apps that I love and go ahead and screenshot this if you want our own
iPhone so it's gonna be the first app that I show you it's a super easy to use
app to edit your photos and this is what I used to primarily use before I
discovered Lightroom Lightroom is honestly a little bit more advanced but
I think once you learn it there's so much more you can do with your photos I
do prefer a light room before beginners I think rni films is a great tools in
here you will find a lot of different filters and filters are a great thing to
use especially if you want your feed to look a little bit more cohesive there's
also like premium filters that you can buy
or urn or whatever but I don't really mess with those my personal favorite is
under the vintage folder and Kodachrome 50s is kind of like my go-to filter that
I use in this app I love the tones in it so once you select the filter that you
like if you hit the little setting button there is a little strength tab
and this is great also because you can apply the same filter to different types
of photos and tone them accordingly so I know me like my photos to look really
white and bright I'm gonna take up the brightness to about 33 then I will
scroll over I don't usually touch any of the other settings for the shadows I
normally like to brighten it up even more that just makes any of the dark
areas or the shadows look a little bit more lit up and then I will take the
highlights down just a little bit and that way the photo doesn't look too
washed out especially if I brighten the photo a lot I like to also tweak the
highlights that just helps to kind of keep the photo looking a little bit more
balanced also another weird thing about this app it doesn't allow you to have
any settings below 6 so that is kind of the threshold if you say it below that
it's gonna automatically reset to zero so it's just a minor thing but it just
doesn't give you as much control over your photos and then I will go into the
pre and post warmth honestly I don't know the difference between both these
I'll kind of just play with both of them and try to see what I like more I prefer
my photos just to have a hint of warmth to them and then going into pre and post
hint these ones kind of determinate her photo is green or purple I prefer my
photos to lean a little bit more on the purple side and then there's all these
other controls you want a little fade action or if you want some dust you can
totally add that but I don't just because I prefer more clean professional
looking photo once I'm happy with the edit I will go ahead and hit this little
Save button to camera roll and then the cool thing about this app is you can
actually apply that same edit to multiple photos so if you have a similar
photo that you want to use and kind of post it as I could care so you can hit
the little back button and upload it and then there's a little pop-up to ask if
you want to use the last edit and that way all the edits that we did to the
last photo it'll apply to the next photo that we upload so I think this is a
really great tool just to show you I'm going to apply the same
edits to a different photo and obviously as you can see it doesn't work out just
because the lighting is totally different so I'm gonna go ahead and hit
cancel and edit this photo the same way that I did the other one
I actually posted the image as is and I didn't face tuna or anything but say it
was a photo for a campaign or I just had like a really bad blemish I wanted to
kind of get rid of I love facetune too I prefer that one over face tune one just
because I think face team 2 gives you a little bit more control with your
editing in the strength of the tools that you use so I do think that this one
is worth paying for I will go ahead and use a retouch & smooth tool this time
I'm just gonna use it as kind of like a spot concealer anywhere where I have
like blemishes and stuff like that I will kind of run my finger over like I
said I usually like to upload my photos not facetune and kind of leave my skin
as is this is just to show you just in case you were interested I never leave
the smooth tool at a hundred percent just because I feel like it looks super
unnatural so I'll kind of drag it down a little bit next I'm gonna do my mustache
area just because sometimes I have a little bit of peach fuzz I like to use a
smooth tool over that area bring down the smoothness super super lows just so
that we get a kind of light smoothing nothing crazy then I love the white and
tool to kind of brighten up the whites of my eyes if I really wanted to put in
the effort for something like this I think it's kind of like a quick and
pretty natural looking at it but has a really striking effect and then there's
also a little eraser so you can refine the areas that you are editing so here
you can see my eyes look so much more brighter and wider then the last thing I
will do is I will actually use the details tool and this helps to kind of
emphasize any area that we want so I usually like to do like my eye shadow
eyeliner lashes sometimes my eyeballs if I want them to pop I'm super happy with
the way that that looks I actually posted that selfie in part of a
carrousel situation how I make these collages is an app called story luxe I
love this app it has a lot of really cute frames or if I want to organize
like a series of photos in kind of an interesting way there's so many
different templates in here it's a super easy to use app as well which I really
so I'm just gonna show you this one if you wanted to make a collage that you
can upload to Instagram there's a little ratio tool in the top left corner you
just select four or five when you upload to Instagram it's gonna crop it even
more so just kind of keep that in mind but it kind of gives you an idea of
where your picture is going to be cropped when you upload it to Instagram
story luxe is a great tool I always get so many questions about it and there's a
lot of like premium templates that you can use as well but I just usually use
the free ones now I'm going to show you Lightroom this is something that you
really have to play with a lot to learn but like I said once you learn it your
photo game is gonna be like on another level and I just edit all of my photos
in Lightroom mainly on my computer there's just so much that you can do
with the photo so I'm going to go ahead and put on screen some before and afters
of some photos I edit it in Lightroom I primarily upload photos that I take with
my camera but again if you're just using iPhone photos there's nothing wrong with
that so here we have that same photo and I'm gonna edit it using Lightroom to
kind of show you how much more we can do with this photo the one great tool about
Lightroom is you can make your own presets so kind of how rni films had its
own filters and stuff like that you can make your own on lightroom especially if
you start developing like a style if you go my Instagram feed a lot of my photos
kind of have the same vibe and by using the same type of edits it kind of helped
my feet to look a little bit more cohesive and put together first things
first we're gonna play with the colors and kind of figure out what we like for
our editing style I normally like to take the vibrance down to like negative
10 or 11 and then the saturation down and that just allows me to play with the
colors next I'm gonna hit this little mix button and here you can see all the
colors in the spectrum and you can tweak the saturation how bright it is
the hue and there's just so much that you can do I usually like to take the
red and the oranges up a little bit to around 12 to 14 especially because that
is usually like my skin tone lip colors so we do want that to pop a little bit
and then the trick for me to getting all of my photos looking really really clean
is to take the yellow super super low and that just makes the
photo just look so much more white and bright which I love so taking down the
yellows the greens and I kind of play with the blues and see how much it
affects the photo that is kind of how the colors look I think it already helps
the photo look a little bit more brighter and wider I'm actually gonna
take the temperature up a little bit and kind of warm up the photo add a little
bit more purple because I do like those tones I'm happy with that it's super
subtle but I think it is really pretty and kind of cleaner looking so we'll
scroll back over to the presets button in the top right those three little dots
you can just tap that and there's a create preset tool and you can name it
whatever you'd like I'm just gonna name it iPhone because this is an iPhone
photo and that way I know when I upload other iPhone photos this is a filter
that's made specifically for that and you can go ahead and use that filter
every time you have an iPhone photo and that way it kind of just applies all of
those same effects that we did earlier kind of easy-peasy
now that we have our preset made I'm actually gonna go ahead and tweak some
of the colors again this is gonna be kind of similar to what we use in our ni
films I'm gonna bring up the exposure I'm gonna take up the shadow so it's not
quite as dark whites and blacks you can kind of just tweak I turned down the
blacks just because I wanted my hair to look a little bit more deeper and then
the thing about Lightroom that makes it so special to me is this curve button it
took me a while to learn but now this is like one of my favorite edits to use
because it just gives my photos such a unique look so what I'll do is I'll add
three different points that just kind of gives me some reference point the middle
one does the contrast of the mid-tones the top one does the contrast of the
highlights the bottom half controls the contrast for some of the darker tones a
curve like this is gonna bring up the contrast from the highlights and up the
contrast for the darkness so you kind of just have to play around with it I
usually do a curve something like this because it just makes my skin pop the
little white button in the bottom right also controls some more of the curves
again it does seem complex but it just gives you so much more flexibility that
it makes the photo look using so I actually ended up really
liking the way that I had edited this I wanted to save it as another preset so I
saved this as iPhone 2 that is a little before and after nothing crazy but I do
think that it makes for a really striking image and something that
doesn't look too over edited you know what I mean so I'm actually gonna put on
the screen the photo that I edited in our Nye films versus the photo that I
did in Lightroom's I don't know for some reason the Lightroom one just looks so
much more cleaner to me but it does take a little bit more work so if you're
willing to learn I think it's a great tool and using Lightroom just allows me
to pace my edits onto a huge batch of photos so Lightroom is super quick and
efficient for me so if you go to the original edited image if you hit the
three little dots on the right there's a little pop-up that says copy settings
you want to tap that go back to the photo that we just uploaded you can
select it and in the bottom right there's little paste edits you can
obviously select more if you have more photos in that same set that you want to
edit so super easy to do obviously all these photos are from a different day
Lighting's different so the edits not going to work for them but just showing
you that that is an option that you can have next I'm going to show you a photo
that I took on my camera most of my photos I take horizontally just because
my camera's just so much more sturdier on my tripod when I have it horizontal
and usually I just go in afterwards and kind of crop it to fit for instagrams
it's just what I've always done this is the original image when I shoot on
camera I always use draw photos photographers will know raw is kind of
like the highest file that you can save your images and this way I just think
there's so much more range that you can do with editing if I had taken this
photo on my iPhone I would not be able to edit it as much as I can now since it
is a raw image there's a lot more that I can do anyways when I go in and crop my
image you want to crop it to the 4:3 ratio and then there's a little rotate
button in the top left to kind of switch to the photo layout that we want I went
ahead and use one of the presets that we made earlier I decided that I was just
gonna go ahead and tweak it from here because I just think it's a little bit
easier from editing it from scratch if that makes sense
going into the cull just kind of tweak some of that so this
luminance tool you haven't seen me use yet but this is the tool that I use a
lot especially if a photo is really bright and washed out bringing down the
luminance of certain colors really helps to make them pop and I'm just kind of
playing around with all the other colors and seeing if they need any changes made
pretty happy with that we're gonna go into our light settings and turn the
highlights way low and here you can see how much of a difference that makes
playing with the highlights and shadows is one of my favorite tools and if you
are to take anything away from this editing lesson I highly recommend
playing around with the highlights and shadows tool it can make your photos
look amazing I'm just gonna tweak some of the
settings he rubs kind of make the photo a little bit more balanced
finally I'm super happy with the way that that photo looks you'll probably be
seeing it on my Instagram soon so once I'm done with the photo there's a little
Save button in the top middle right this photo shoot and Brandon's car actually
loved the way that this turned out and footlocker actually reposted me as well
which is super cool this kind of has a moodier edit so I'm going to show you
how I kind of get that effect I edit this photo the same way that I did all
the other ones but the trick here is to play with the curves that's kind of how
you get like this matte edit which kind of translate to a little bit of a moody
or edit so here you can see my three little points that I made but the last
point at the bottom which I didn't even touch for all the other photos I will
actually bring up from the corner and here you can see that just makes the
photo look so much more matte some editing apps allow you to do this but
this is just how you do it in Lightroom and I will just bring it up just a
smidge and it automatically makes a photo so much more moodier for this I
actually saved it as a preset as well anytime I had a type of photo that I
wanted it to look a little bit more moodier I will go ahead and just apply
the preset and they kind of tweak it from there
and that is how I edit most of my photos so that is the end of today's video I
hope you all found it helpful I'll go ahead and link here some recent videos
that will help you up your Instagram game but if you guys don't already
follow me on Instagram make sure you do because I'm super active on there and my
Instagram stores as well that is it for today's video thank you guys so much for
watching and I will see you in the next one