- Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining me again.
In this week's video,
we're gonna look at the photographs
I took last week in the forest,
and how we can edit those photographs
using an app called Snapseed.
So you can take beautiful images just like this.
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[Adrian Rankin] Tools. Tune Image.
and then we can start with some basic adjustments
around exposure and contrast.
So, for the first thing was brightness. So,
to move,
either make it brighter or darker,
you can slide your finger to the...
to the right, makes it brighter.
Slide to the left makes it darker.
Move down to,
leave contrast, saturation, and ambiance for now.
Go into highlights.
So we just reduced the brightness anyway,
but we'll just take a little bit of shine off.
The great thing about Snapseed
is you can see I'm just scrolling with my finger.
So scroll a little further up the screen
to get to your shadows.
And depending on what I like to do,
opening up the shadows flattens the image,
so you move to the right.
And you can see it gets flatter, or less contrasty.
And then if you go to the other side
add a little bit more, so a little bit there,
it's Z
Go to Tools, we'll do the White Balance now.
So, making it cooler or warmer.
To make it colder or cooler,
we would move our finger to the left.
I'm gonna make it a little warmer, move to the right.
Next up, is to go to Details.
So, iPhones have a lot of sharpening in there
So there's two options here
The Structure and Sharpening.
So I'm gonna click sharpening here.
But I have to do structures
which also makes it cloudy, in Lightroom.
So make the image more crispy, or gritty or softer.
For woodland photographs, I don't know let's make it softer
So we're gonna do negative structure,
So why let's slide to the left.
Now if you wanna see how far you've come
the great thing about Snapseed is you can just
push your finger on your own image, holding it down.
As I've shown you before, now like the screen now
Showing the current state, and I put my finger on there
You can see how it was before.
So darker a bit, then not much.
Tools again.
Let's have a look at Curves.
Lots of things you can do with Curves.
Again, Snapseed brought you some of these
presets down the bottom.
So you can see the curves on here so we can add
You can do it by color channels
You can do it by the average key release, simple today.
So you can brighten some of those on the wood.
Curve, just on the bottom here.
There you go, hold. Straight down.
Fraction. Okay let's go to Glamour Glow.
So I always just use number one.
Here's number one.
Again, you've got a three
of the many options within the screen.
So scrolling them down.
So glow,
saturation, and warp.
So you can see it's reduced
the saturation of the image as well.
Saturation reduction is probably too much,
cause I didn't actually add
any saturation or ambiance at the start.
So we'll bring that back in to sliding into the right.
We don't want that such right.
We don't want to saturate it so you can see a vibrant,
you do need that to be a saturation
when posting it online.
So the last thing you want to do,
keeping it really simple
is put a little vignette on,
Very light adjustment.
So vignette darkens the edge,
We're gonna darken this slightly.
So you're moving the blue dot that's within the main
where the eye you want to go.
So I wanted to wrap around,
a truly looking at and framed by
Move along those lines.
Let's make it much bigger
There.
So first menu option again,
sliding up and down the screen out of brightness.
So to give you the extreme.
You don't want that.
You don't want to be noticeable,
but just subtly.
Subtle is the key here.
So whereas no spot in the edge is far right,
which is a relevant 20, 30 mark.
It's too much I assume.
So we might just sit around 15
and then scroll down within the brighter side.
That's around about the tree.
Pop out a little bit.
Be careful with this because if you move,
Try to cross becomes very bright,
not natural at all.
And lucky, last thing is to then export
in progression to share it
So export.
You can do it too, if you like, as a copy
I've seen and do these changes after
doing it myself today.
So we'll give her the save button
and then it will save to your camera roll.
If you're still learning more about forest photography
or Woodland photography,
I did a video a couple of weeks ago.
I'll link it up here where you can have a look through
how I work in a rainforest, sitting in a hotel,
a different type of story with different types of trees.
Otherwise I'll leave it there for this week.
Thank you so much for watching
all the very best of the week ahead.
We'll see you again soon.
Bye for now.
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