Thursday Tech Tips and Tricks: The Best Ways to Edit Photos on your Desktop or Laptop
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- Today in Tech Tip Thursdays we’re going through some tips to editing images on your phone with some free apps. Stock iOS app The iOS image editing app that comes built in with your phone allows you to do some color corrections to your photos. It’s really simple and basic.
Sticking with the photo editing theme this week, we’re going to look at an app that can be used on your laptop or desktop. It would be for photos in large file format, from SLR cameras or point and shoot. For this you would take the memory card, insert it into your computer and you can keep the file size a little bit larger. images from your camera would would be in a lossless format and higher resolution.
Nik Collection
Nik Collection is totally free. It also can act as a free plugin inside of photoshop if you would like to combine the two powers. But for photo processing, Nik Collections can be used just fine alone.
Analog Efex Pro can be used for a retro feel, kind of like an Instagram tool. Color Efex Pro is a full featured photo editor, like a digital dark room. It’s the one Eric uses most frequently. This can get you any style, any treatment, anything pulled out and enhanced.
Silver Efex Pro is one of the best black and white photo processing tool out there. Viveza is a lightened version of Color Efex Pro and focuses on color. HDR Efex Pro gives you a multi-layered image look. You can stack exposures or a single exposure. It works well with architecture and landscape. Sharpener Pro pulls out lots of detail and macro details from your photography. Dfine is good for lower light situations. It conceals graininess and helps blend the issues that will pop up in low light.
These apps don’t take a lot of a computer to run, which is great. And it’s fully free.
Color Efex Pro
Checking out the interface, On the left side you’ll see all of the filters and on the right side you’ll see individual adjustments for those filters. You can stack up as many of those filters as you want on the right just by clicking the “add filter” button on the right hand side.
Right now we’ve got Bleach Bypass turned on, which gives you a crunchy look.
Let’s say you are adjusting your photo and you want the affect just on one part of it. Use the control points in your filter adjustments and the slider to see what radius your effecting. You can also use a filter on the whole image and then subtract it from areas.
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The opacity adjusts the affect over the whole image by percentage.
Silver Efex Pro
This is a fun one with all of the black and white work you can do. On the left side there are presets which can be fun to use right off the bat or you can do more personalized adjustments. This is even better than what you can do in Photoshop (whith the amount of control).
HDR Efex Pro
This one is a great app that gets you the nice surreal scene. Many times it pushes things too far. Just be careful, don’t go to far (a lot of people do) and don’t be afraid to back off of it. When you first start off, definitely go too far. But before you save it, take a step back, maybe go eat a snack. And then come back and take another look.
I hope this helps! It’s a great set of plugins. This is where digital photography is at right now and this is a great set of tools. They’re not looking to add any updates because this is where photography is at. When photography changes, that’s probably when we’ll see updates.
What is your favorite app in this suite? Let us know in the comments!
Tech Tip Thursday: The Best Ways to Edit Photos on Your Phone
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Today in Tech Tip Thursdays we’re going through some tips to editing images on your phone with some free apps.
Stock iOS app The iOS image editing app that comes built in with your phone allows you to do some color corrections to your photos. It’s really simple and basic. You can make blanket adjustments and find some interesting filters.
Jumping into the “light option” you can move things around kind of generally with preset options. If you click on the three dots/dash you can adjust things more individually. But it’s still pretty basic.
Snapseed is available both on Android and iOS for free!
Jumping into the app, click on the bottom right pencil. It will open up an option to tune Image. Swipe up and down to see all of the options. It’s pretty intuitive.
In the bottom left corner you’ll see the histogram. You can toggle on and off. It will show you where you are on your whites and blacks. You don’t want to go passed 100% white or 100% black because you’ll lose detail.
Details
If you pump up the details it can make it look like your image was taken on a really nice camera with a great lens. You can really fool people with this one “You took that on an Android or an iPhone?” “Yes I did!”
You can zoom in on the image in all of these settings too, to verify if you’ve pushed to hard or is that just the right amount of structure and sharpening.
crop
You’ve got aspect ratios. You can rotate the photo to create a dutch angle or just adjust something that wasn’t quite perfect. You can also turn your image into landscape or change the shape.
Things you can do under settings
Change perspective, adjust white balance. Using the Dodge and Burn brush you can bring up shadows based on where you paint with your finger. Healing can be used to paint out sections of your image. You can expand your photo for better composition (though be selective as these can cause some blurriness).
Change perspective, adjust white balance. Using the Dodge and Burn brush you can bring up shadows based on where you paint with your finger. Healing can be used to paint out sections of your image. You can expand your photo for better composition (though be selective as these can cause some blurriness).
Filters
drama
This filter gives it an hdr look and you can adjust the filter strength so it’s not to harsh. You can bring your saturation up to give it a cool look!
This filter gives it an hdr look and you can adjust the filter strength so it’s not to harsh. You can bring your saturation up to give it a cool look!
lens blur
This filter can give you the shallow depth of feel so the foreground is a little out of focus. You can also give it a tilt shift focus.
This filter can give you the shallow depth of feel so the foreground is a little out of focus. You can also give it a tilt shift focus.
Black and White and Noir are also really cool.
One of the coolest things about the app is that you can see your adjust your edits so that they only apply to the specific areas you want them to in your image.
finally, you can save your look, populate a QR code, and send it to a friend so they can add it to their looks.
If you have any questions, add them in comments below. Also, if you have anything you want us to talk about on future Tech Tip Thursdays, let us know in the comments as well! We’ll be doing these every two weeks!