- Today I'm gonna show you how to make your photos
look better with just (soft jazz music)
a few simple steps
and it doesn't matter if you're on an Android
or an iPhone the process is exactly the same.
My name is Dee Nimmin and you're watching the
Master your Mobile video series,
and the app we're gonna use today is Snapseed
which is my favorite app.
So let's open it up, choose a photo and get started.
Okay when ya open up Snapseed you're gonna go in
and choose a photo to work on.
I'm gonna choose this photo right here,
for obvious reasons I'm very dark
and everything looks kind of dull.
Now if I were gonna make this into a YouTube thumbnail
I would probably position myself on either the left
or right, and then put text somewhere in the middle.
But for the purpose of this tutorial,
I'm choosing this picture, it's gonna be easier to work on.
The first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go down
to tools, and then in the top here,
I'm gonna go to tune image
and as I scroll my thumb up and down,
you're gonna see all these options here.
I'm gonna choose just a little bit of brightness.
But the magic sauce is right here with ambiance,
so watch what happens as I move my finger to the right.
Look at this, the picture comes to life,
if I move it to the left it dies out.
So I'm gonna crank this up and wow look at that.
Now if I tap on it, I can see what it was before
and you can see what it is after.
So with this particular picture
I want it to be extra vibrant,
because I just want to show you
what's possible with Snapseed.
So I'm gonna hit the check mark
down at the bottom right corner, it's gonna save it,
now I'm gonna go into tools again
and I'm gonna hit selective.
And if I drop my finger somewhere it's gonna add
a little point where I can choose between brightness,
contrast, saturation, or structure.
Now if I use two fingers, I can choose how much
or how little of an effect it has on the picture.
So I'm gonna put it right there,
and I'm gonna go to saturation,
and I'm gonna crank that up just a little bit.
Then I'm gonna tap off the picture
and I'm gonna tap down on the little plus icon.
It's gonna allow me to drop another one,
use two fingers and shrink it down,
then I'm gonna go back to saturation,
I'm gonna crank that up.
You can see what I'm going here,
I'm putting color to the ground.
Okay tapping off there I'm gonna add another one,
I'm gonna go back here to the mountain.
Add some saturation, size it down a little bit,
tap off and I'm gonna put another one over here.
Let's move that down, some more saturation, tap off.
Now you see my face here is kind of dark,
so I'm gonna add one on my face.
I'm gonna shrink it down, now you can zoom in
and get it right there on your face,
and for this I'm gonna add some brightness.
I'm gonna tap off, and I might add another one right here.
Might add some more brightness.
I'm gonna hit the check mark in the bottom right.
Now you can see how the picture's looking.
You can see the before and after.
It's quite a difference, and this is really easy to do.
So now my face is a little bit red
and I think I'm gonna add one more selective notch on there.
Shrink it down, move that on to my face better
and I'm gonna knock down the saturation
a little bit on my face.
There we go, so now I might go back up to tune image,
I might add a little bit of brightness.
I might add a little more ambiance
and I might hit a touch of saturation.
Just to make it really pop and stand out.
Then I'm gonna go back into tools,
and I'm going to go to vignette.
Now by default the vignette gives you an outer brightness
of negative 50, I think that's a bit too much.
So I'm actually gonna knock that down a little bit
and then I'm going to go to the inner brightness,
and I'm gonna brighten me up just a little bit here,
right in the middle, I like that.
I'm gonna save that hitting the check mark
on the bottom right, and one more thing
I'm going down to the tools again.
I'm gonna go to details and then I'm gonna go to structure.
Now structure's gonna add a lot of detail to the picture.
So I'm gonna just put a little bit of structure in there.
And you can see as I'm toggling on and off here.
You can see the difference the structure's making.
Just a little bit but it all adds up.
I'm gonna save that, now I'm happy with this.
Like I said it's a little bit over the top, but it works.
Now suppose I add in an effect here, and I didn't like it.
How do I fix that?
I go up here to the top to the layers option,
I tap on that and I go to view edits,
and those are all the edits I did for this picture.
So if I want to go back and adjust the vignette.
I can tap on that, I can delete it, I can masque it on
or I can just adjust it so I'm right back
to where I started, I can adjust that again.
I hit okay and then I go back up to the top
and then I back out and if I'm happy with it,
I'm gonna export and I'm gonna export it and save a copy
and there you go.
And that is how you make your photos pop
and come to life, and you can use these on either Instagram
or you can use them for your YouTube thumbnails.
You can put them on Facebook, whatever you want,
the process is gonna work across the board for all of them.
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