Hey guys this is Ben and in this video
I'm going to show you exactly how I color grade my tiny planet photos using a free app called Snapseed.
I post a tiny planet photo to Instagram every single day, and I work really hard to get a good tiny planet composition,
but something I think a lot of people don't realize is I spend a lot of time color grading this thing.
I'll spend sometimes 10 20 30 minutes getting the best colors
I can possibly get, and just the best overall edit of the photos
so I have something that looks really nice on my Instagram grid and because this is free this is something you can download and start using
instantly- I'm going to show you exactly how to do it and get the results that I get.
Let's open up Snapseed and
I'm going to import today's photo which I've already morphed into a tiny planet. That's looking awesome isn't it?
I shot this on Lombard Street in San Francisco just now and you want to go to the tools tab.
Firstly, I'm going to rotate this and we have lots of different things we can do to our image here.
This is essentially like a mini photoshop for your iPhone or Android and I'm going to go to the rotate tool there.
First, I want to rotate it to an orientation. I'm happy with and
that's looking really good and also,
I want to adjust it a little bit just roll it a tiny bit so we get even more symmetry.
Happy with that. I feel like there's too much sky now, so going to crop in.
I want that planet to be right in the middle and that's looking a lot better already
I always aim to have the planet right in the middle of that middle box there
so that's always a good parameter to tell whether you're going to have symmetry and that's much better already
My next step would be I would change the colors, so you go tools again, and then tune image
You have all your options here you've got brightness, contrast, saturation
ambience, highlights, shadows and warmth. Normally I start with saturation because I really like bright colors and
to change
something up and down you simply swipe right or left so see when I go left it turns to black and white
Then when I go right it boosts that saturation really high, I really like that a lot
It looks nice because there are lots of nice colors within that environment
Next I'm going to boost the ambience and this essentially balances the image out a bit more so it increases the dynamic range and again
you can take that away you can make it more contrasty
I like trying all sliders when I do a color grade so I can be sure that I've got
the perfect combination of adjustments and that's looking really good having higher dynamic range there with the ambience turned up a bit
Next I'm going to maybe bring on the brightness just a tad, overall.
That's looking good and something
you'll find really handy is if you hold your thumb down to the screen
It'll show you before and after so we can see our changes already look excellent.
So next I'm going to go down to warmth make this a little bit warmer by dragging that to the right
I'm just making like a tiny bit, and I'm it's plus six warmth
let's see what looks like with plus and minus shadows no that doesn't look good and
Then y'all all increase in just a tiny bit their highlights again
Just want to see what it looks like don't have to commit to it. Let's go all the way down.
Feel like there's so much detail in the center there that the sky in this example
I'm going to get rid of it and make it just white
Because it's so pleasing to look at and I don't want the clouds to detract from that
So I'm quite happy with that inner circle. I love the planet, but I'm not so happy with this guy
So I'm going to press the tick to confirm our changes, and now I'm going to use the Selective tool
Which is this one here.
Which means you can isolate individual areas and do things so all you do is pinch
To expand or make smaller a specific area
And you can see everything highlighted in red is the area that will be affected
So what I'm going to do is bring the brightness right up on that and again you go you press up.
or you swipe up to see the parameters you can change with selective you can change your brightness or contrast your saturation and
Structure so I'm going to go. I think I went up with the brightness up to 100% in that area
the saturation I'm going to go down a hundred percent
What this does is it now changes that although is a lot of its white some of it has ten years of blue.
So I want to make that perfectly white and instantly we have a white area in the top
left hand corner of the planet
So I'm going to press tick to confirm that and now I want to do that
Consistently across the whole image using the exact same technique so again we select an area, we go up in brightness
Down the saturation and confirmed, so I'm going to do this about ten or so times
Before I pointed out the feature of pressing your thumb down to view before and after you can also do that with individual things
So I'm using selective if I press it down. I'm seeing my before and after of my selective change
That's super cool!
Because you can essentially tell whether you made the right move on not, and I definitely did with that one there
So it's just something handy to have I'm being able to do before and after of each individual tool that you applied to your image
You can also drag your pinpoint if you're not happy with where you placed it
By just doing this and then it'll isolate this blue color
Or I can move it over to green if I want to isolate green so you can get really
pinpoint precision on
Where you make your selective changes and again the red is an indication of all those blue areas
I've selected around that initial area. This is already coming to life. How good does this look?
Might play around my tent now. No, I think I'm gonna be happy
I'd really do like trying a lot of the tools to see how they have an effect on the image
These are the main ones I use for the vast majority of my posts sometimes
I might use healing healing is a really good function if you want to remove small details so
I want to get rid of this lamp here. It's as simple as just painting over it.
It's gone. It's like a band-aid tool in
Photoshop, and you can get rid of unwanted details just with the press of your finger to the screen
So this is really intuitive and there you can zoom in
Inspect the finer details, and if you make a mistake like I just did there, just go back like that
I'm happy with this this looks excellent. I love colors personally. I'm a big fan of bright vivid colors
I'm going to do one last tune image to see if I can make this any better
Maybe boost that saturation one last time and you can see that's again. That's having a nice effect on the image
I'm not gonna overdo it this time. It's going to be more for subtle things and try my ambience again
Maybe raise that just a tiny bit. This is looking like a bonsai plant isn't it it's pretty sick
I'm really happy with this, and I'm ready to export when you export
It's as simple as pressing the export and then save a copy
Now its going to save to my camera roll
There I have an amazing planet, I'm gonna be really proud of posting to my Instagram and when you see the before and
the after you can see it's a massive difference, and that's this is the difference between getting like 300 likes and
800 likes just making those
Those finer adjustments bringing out your colors changing the composition so you get it 100 percent perfect instead of 80% perfect
because people respond to
100% back well, it's not look
It's not at home percent perfect at all
But people respond to you when you go to then that next level of effort to make your photos outstanding
And I can already tell that,
This is the best result possible with this 360 photo that I shot
Cool guys, I hope that was helpful if you like shooting tiny plants you might want to check out my ebook
It's called life in 360 a beginner's guide to tiny planet photography and in it I wrote every single
technique that I use and that you'll see on my Instagram profile. It'll show you exactly how to do it
I break it down step by step including a big section on color grading
So I'd strongly recommend you check that out put a link down in the description
Until next time keep capturing your world in 360 don't forget to check us out on Instagram my handle is @BenClaremont
facebook.com/lifein360photo and
Subscribe on youtube.com/lifein360photo color is such a powerful tool
I'd strongly suggest you use it get this free up, and you can start collaborating instantly
I put a link to that down in the description.