- [Dee] In this video, I'm gonna show you how to work
with selective color or add a Color Splash to your images,
like the ones that you're seeing on the screen right now
and to do this, we're gonna use a free app called Snapseed.
This is available for both Android and iOS users
and I'm putting a link down in the description
so you can download this app if you don't have it already.
So go ahead and open up Snapseed
and let me show you how to do this.
The first thing you wanna do when you open up Snapseed
is obviously tap on this giant plus
button right here in the center.
You wanna tap on that and then choose
the photograph that you wanna edit.
The first photo that we're gonna edit in this video
is that pink classic car in Havana Cuba.
So I'm gonna tap on that and you're gonna see
that a bunch of filters and tools
show up here at the bottom.
What you wanna do is tap on tools
in the center at the very bottom.
Once you tap on tools, look down on the bottom corner
on the far right and if you don't see black and white,
scroll down a little bit until you see it, then tap on it.
Snapseed is then going to apply a black
and white filter to your photograph
and they have some filters down at the bottom
that you can play around with.
They have neutral, contrast, bright,
dark, film and darkened sky.
Now you can come back and adjust these later
but to get started, we're gonna do contrast on this one.
Then we're gonna hit the check icon
in the bottom right-hand corner.
Now we have a totally black and white picture.
But don't panic just yet because we can change this
and we're gonna let the pink show out from the car
and in order to do that, you wanna go up to the very top
to the Edit stack icon, you wanna tap that
then you wanna come down to View Edits.
Once View Edits opens up, you're gonna see all the edits
that you've made to the picture.
Now I've only made one
and that's turning it black and white.
So that's the first one here on the top.
If I tap on that, I have an option
to delete the black and white setting,
to mask the black and white setting,
to paint it on or paint it off
or to adjust the black and white setting.
We're gonna tap the one in the center.
Now, magically we have a color photograph again
and you can do this one of two ways.
You can turn the car black and white
and then inverse the picture or you can tap on
the invert icon over on the left
and start with a black and white image
and then reveal the color of the car.
I like to work in reverse.
So I'm gonna start with the color image.
Then I'm gonna zoom in with two fingers,
I'm pinching and I'm zooming and all I'm gonna do
is simply start rubbing my finger along the car
and being very careful along the edges and you're gonna see
that it's starting to strip out the color of the image.
Now if you make a mistake here, don't worry,
I'm gonna show you how to correct these mistakes.
I know not all of us are great at coloring in the lines
and that's not a problem here.
I will show you how to correct that,
when we get finished turning this car black and white.
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Now, I've obviously made some mistakes here
and you can see right here on top of the car,
I've erased some of the building behind.
Now, earlier on, I said if you make a mistake,
don't worry about it, we're gonna fix it.
Here's how you fix it.
If you come down to the bottom,
right now it says black and white 100.
What you wanna do is tap the down arrow to reverse that
to a black and white is at zero.
Then you wanna come back in and you wanna paint in
what you accidentally removed and you see what's happening
here is it's painting back in what I took off.
So now you can go around your subject,
whatever it is that you removed the color from
and if you need to fix anything, this is how you do it.
Let's come up here.
Make sure I got everything just right.
Okay, that's good enough.
So now if you use two fingers and you pinch
and you zoom out, this is what it looks like
and to reverse it, you tap on the invert icon
on the bottom left, boom, now you have a black
and white picture with a pink car
that is just screaming off the page
and that looks absolutely amazing.
But we're not gonna stop there.
We're gonna tap on the check icon
on the bottom right-hand corner.
Then we're gonna tap on our black
and white edits once again.
Only this time, we're gonna tap on Settings.
We're gonna tap on Settings and we can still go back
and we can adjust the background.
Now don't worry if it doesn't show the color.
It's gonna show the color when we're finished.
So I'm gonna lighten this up a little bit
but I'm gonna adjust it just a little bit more.
So I'm gonna tap on the Settings once again
down here at the bottom and I can adjust the contrast,
the brightness and the grain manually.
So I'm gonna do that and I'm happy with the way this looks.
So I'm gonna tap on the check mark once more
and then it's gonna correct the background.
Now once you have this looking exactly the way you want it,
tap on the arrow on the top left-hand corner
and it's gonna take you back to where you began.
So this is our image and I think it looks really good
and if you wanna see what you started with,
tap and hold on the image or under the image,
tap and hold and you're gonna see the before and the after.
Now, this is the final image and I'm happy with this.
So now we're gonna save the image.
So we're gonna export the image
by tapping on Export down in the bottom right.
Then you have some options.
You can save with changes that you can undo.
You can save a copy with changes you can undo
or you can export it with permanent changes.
I'm gonna export with permanent changes,
then it's gonna apply all the filters
and all the changes that you made.
And you know when it's finished because it's gonna say
successfully exported down at the bottom.
If you wanna learn even more tips and tricks
and cool editing techniques with Snapseed,
go ahead and tap on either one of the videos
that I'm showing on the screen right now.
Both of these are Snapseed tutorials
that will help you improve your photo editing.
Thank you So much for watching.
I do appreciate it and I'll see you in the next video.