- Hey guys, Andy here.
You might know me as Some Guy on Instagram
and today I'm gonna show you how to edit your
photos on your iPhone using an app called Snapseed.
Before we get started, I recommend increasing
your screen brightness.
It helps a lot when editing photos on your phone.
So Snapseed is made by Google
and it's free on the app store.
It's also available on Android.
So I already have a photo picked out here.
So let's open it.
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It's a photo of a cocktail from a local bar.
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So just to get started, we're gonna crop the photo.
This is gonna be used on Instagram
so I'm gonna crop it in a square.
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At any time during editing,
you can tap on the image and it'll show you the original
so you can compare.
Let's start off with tune image.
This has the most basic controls.
So I like to usually hit the magic wand here.
It does a little bit of auto adjustments
and then play around with the options separately.
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So you can see we've already
made some improvements to the photo.
For details,
adds kind of a sharpness and stuff like that to the photo.
I usually like to do around 20 for both of these settings.
It kinda gives is a subtle effect.
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Rotate, we won't be using that in this tutorial
but you can rotate your photos with that.
Transform,
this is a great tool for architectural shots.
If you're shooting buildings
it's very helpful to be able to angle the shots
and stuff like that.
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But for this shot, we're not gonna be using that.
One of the best tools in my opinion is this selective tool.
You click this little plus
and you can add points to the image.
And what it's actually doing
is selecting the color in that area.
So when I'm doing like food and drink photography,
I like to select the table that the
food or drink is on
and desaturate it a bit
and brighten it up a little.
And you can actually copy these points.
So I'm copying this one.
I'm gonna put it over here,
over here.
And this is yellow, so I want to get that on there.
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I just think desaturating it gives it a lot
more focus to what you're shooting.
But play around with all the settings.
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To change the tool that you're using,
you swipe up and down.
And to change the intensity,
you swipe left and right.
So as you can see, I can't add any more points
'cause I've added four.
Or I've added eight.
So to get around this, you just apply to settings
and then you can redo
more selective tools.
Now we can do another eight.
I want to make that drink pop a little bit more.
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And maybe the green of this
mint leaf here.
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Also if you hold your finger
you can fine tune pick the area and color.
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That looks pretty good.
Looks like there's a little bit of yellow in the background
from the light.
So let's pick that.
There we go.
Before, after.
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Same with the reflection from these sunglasses.
Let's fix that.
It's the little details that add up.
And if you wanna preview your adjustments,
you can click this little eye here.
It will actually hide
the points.
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Spot repair, we're not gonna be using this.
This is if you wanna remove like,
for example, let's remove that little
wasn't little but,
if you wanna remove a point on the photo.
We can get rid of that glare for example.
Actually let's get rid of that so, yeah.
So you can see the glare in the sunglasses is gone.
And this is
also my favorite tool the vignette.
This, you know, it's a pretty standard tool
adding the darkness around the edges.
But I like this one because you can add an inner brightness.
And that kinda gives it like
a little extra polish in the photo.
And you can also move it around.
I'm gonna try to focus in on the drink here.
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I think that really makes it pop.
I don't recommend using any of the other tools in Snapseed.
They're there if you wanna mess around with them.
But there you go.
Original,
fully edited.
Save.
Save as a copy is what I recommend doing.
I wouldn't recommend overwriting your originals
just in case you wanna make other edits.
That photo's ready to go on Instagram.
For more tutorials like this,
check out my YouTube channel on my website,
ihitthebutton.com.
Also follow me on Instagram.
Username is Some Guy.
Happy shooting.