Blogger Tips: Quick iPhone Photo Editing with Snapseed

I've recently been trying to improve the photos on my blog. I know many bloggers sit down with Lightroom or Photoshop, but I just don't have much desire to do that. As you see with my DIYs, I like quick, simple, easy.  I take all my blog pictures with my iPhone and edit on there as well.  I wanted to take you through the editing process I did recently on one of my outfit photos, just so you can see how easy it is.

The app I use most often is Snapseed. It's free.

 

So, here's the original. Really shadowy toward the bottom. Toys showing on the side. I realize it's real life, but if I can do something about it with a few short clicks, I will.

 

Here's inside the app. I just opened it up and brought in the picture from my camera roll.  I chose the tune image option. I use it most frequently.

 

Then, I just hold the screen and select which type of tuning I want to do.  With this picture, I chose shadows because that's what I wanted to get rid of. I use that, brightness, and sometimes warmth most often.

 

After I chose that option, I swiped to the right repeatedly until it looked how I wanted (the +91 is their measure of how much shadow was removed)

 

I also used the cropping option to cut out some of the original shot. 

 

Here's a little side-by-side comparison, so you can see how much the shadow reducer helped.

 

What do you think? Was this helpful for you? 

I hope to post a few more iPhone photo app tutorials for you soon, so you can see a little bit more of what I do. 

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