Snapseed is a photo editing Application made by Google.
It offers so much possibilities to photographers to edit their photographs and with Snapseed
you are not held down to use a computer to edit photographs.
For the people who want to know how to use Snapseed then this video will help you out
with that.
Before I start to show you how to use Snapseed, i would leave timestamps down in the description
so I can make your viewing experience more easier to watch.
The first thing I'm going to show you is how to get Snapseed on your device, it's easy.
All you need to do is just open up the Google Playstore or AppStore on iPhoens and search
Snapseed.
After you searched Snapseed, it should be your first result that appears.
Just tap on Install and wait until the application downloads and installs.
After the Application has installed, just open it and you will by greeted by its interface.
To open a photo, Just tap on the top left text which is named Open.
If you're running on Android Marshmallow or higher, your phone will ask you for Snapseed
to access photos and media, this is totally fine so tap on allow.
Your phone will then open up its file manager where you can use the sidebar to open up an
app like for example Google Photos where you can select the photo that needs editing.
After opening up the photograph you want to edit, to do basic adjustments tap on the white
pencil icon and tap on Tune Image.
If you look below you will see a magic wand button.
If you tap on that, your phone will automatically adjust the photograph to what it thinks the
photograph should be.
If you want to dive in further, on the bottom left you will see an icon that looks like
a bar chart.
Tap on that and you will see your Histogram where you can see how light or dark your photograph
is or how balanced it is, you can also dismiss it by tapping in the same place.
If you want to manually change the settings on a photograph like the brightness or contrast,
just slide your finger horizontally to add more or less, you will notice above how much
you are adding or how much less.
You can also change options on the photograph by sliding vertically and let go to select
the adjustment.
You can also tap in the settings icon next to the magic wand to have the menu on your
screen instead to holding your finger down on the screen.
Once you're happy with your changes, tap on the bottom right tick mark to confirm the
changes you made.
Opening up the pencil again, the next option on the right of tune image is called Details.
This option will allow you to add sharpness and structure.
The interface is exactly the same as the tune image option, but you are playing with different
features.
By adding Structure you are basically giving the photograph more rough edges and extra
detail that the viewer may not see, below structure, sharpening is used to bring out
the detail when zoomed in to the photograph and by the way you can double tap on the image
to zoom in and use the diagram displayed on the bottom left to move around, to get out
of zooming in just double tap or pinch in.
To crop a photograph, just tap on the white pencil and tap on crop, you will then get
a small menu where you can choose between different aspect ratios.
By selecting one of these you will be fixed in that aspect ratio, which means that if
you select a 16:9 aspect ratio you can move it around or change its size but you cannot
move it besides a widescreen aspect ratio, it's basically locked if you put it in that
way.
To look at other aspect ratios you can slide horizontally to choose between them.
You can also dismiss the menu by tapping on the highlighted button.
Next to the button you will be able to change the pictures orientation to portrait or landscape.
To rotate an image, tap on the white pencil icon and tap on rotate.
The app will automatically detect and rotate by it's preference but you can manually
adjust the rotation by sliding horizontally.
You can also flip the image by tapping on the icon next to the rotating arrow.
After you are happy with the changes you can tap on the tick mark on the bottom right of
the screen to save the changes you made and to discard the changes, just tap on the cross
icon on the bottom left hand side of the screen.
The next thing is Perspective.
This is used to give your photograph a 3D look to it.
If you are using Snapseed on iOS, it would be called Transform.
It's kind of the same thing but I'm showing this tutorial on android.
After tapping perspective, you'll get a small menu that shows Tilt, Rotate, scale and free.
Tilt mode will allow you to move the image left or right or up and down.
This option will allow you to make things look bigger from the bottom of the photograph.
Be warned that only that option works on iOS but with android you have a bit more options
here.
The next thing is rotate which will simply allow you to rotate the image but without
cropping the image and losing resolution, the only bad thing doing this is that if you
have the smart fill mode, your photograph will end up like a mess, so be careful if
you want the best image.
The next thing is scale which is used to stretch the aspect ratio of the image horizontally
and vertically, and the last option is Free where you have all of the options to stretch
the image and expand it and do anything a with it.
Next to that, there is the fill modes, there is three of them.
One is called smart where your device will automatically fix the photograph if you have
made changes.
You also have white which will only fill in those open layers in that colour and black
is basically the opposite, just think of it as a solid colour that will just fill in the
open bits in the photograph.
Next, you have white balance which is very self explanatory, if you tap on it, your device
will automatically determine how warm the photograph needs to be or how cold it needs
to be.
Having a warmer white balance will make the photograph orange and having a cold white
balance will make the photograph go blue, of course you can manually adjust it by yourself
by sliding on the screen left and right.
You also have tint if you want to dive in more but I always let the software figure
out what's perfect for the photograph by tapping on the auto white balance button on the bottom
left.
Next to all of that I don't really know what this button is but I think it's for the people
who want to dive in deeper in manual white balance, my only guess is that it's magnifying
glass used to determine what white balance is used closer in the photograph.
The whole software is going to be the same on how to apply changes and discard changes
as the tick mark and the cross are located on the bottom of the display.
The next option is a Brush.
It is used to manually increase the brightness of a part of the photograph or to decrease
it.
The first option is called Dodge And Burn, which will allow you to make a part of the
photograph completely black.
You can use the arrows to change the effect that it would make when you use the brush
on your photograph.
You will also notice that their is an eraser as well if you need to undo what you have
done you can simply take it away and undo your mistake by wiping your finger over the
part you have made a mistake on.
If you want to view where you have drawn, tap on the mask button where the tick mark
is at and the software will highlight the parts that you have changed.
Their is also other options which I'm not going to dive into so I can leave it up to
you to play around with, but their is exposure to make the photo light and dark, there is
temperature which will allow you to make a part of the photo warmer or colder and there
is saturation where you will be able to make a part of the photograph more colourful or
less colourful.
The next thing is called Selective.
Selective is where you select a part of the photograph that you want to increase the brightness
of or increase the contrast of.
It's a handy feature if you want to brighten up a part of the photograph that you couldn't
do.
To add a selective, just tap on the plus icon and make sure it's highlighted, tap on anywhere
on the screen to make changes to the part you want it to.
After you tapped on the part of the photograph that you want to make changes, you can swipe
left or right to add more or less of brightness for example.
To change the option just go up or down to change it.
You can also tap on the hide button if you don't want to see the selected dots you plotted
on the image.
The next tool is Healing.
Healing is used if you want to get rid of things that are destroying the photograph.
To use it just tap on healing and draw over the object that needs fixing.
You can also double tap to zoom in if the object you're trying to heal is small.
If you made a mistake you can always undo or redo your mistakes, and to confirm or discard
your changes, just tap on the tick mark or the cross.
The next tool is called Vignette.
This tool is used to give the edges of your photograph a dark look to them.
It's helpful if you just want to forget the edges and only focus on the middle part of
the photo.
I think this tool definitely makes your photograph look better.
There's a couple of settings on this tool like your Outer Brightness and your Inner
Brightness.
They're both self explanatory.
One is used to brighten or darken the middle part of the image while the outer brightness
is used to make the outer part darker or brighter.
The next option is text where you can add text to your photograph.
I use this tool a lot to add names to my photographs.
To use this tool just tap on it and you will see a menu on the bottom of your screen where
other text templates will be with different fonts to choose from.
To add text into the photograph, just double tap on the text and start typing what you
want and tap on ok to confirm the text you made.
You can resize the text you entered by pinching the screen or rotating the screen to rotate
the text.
Next to the cross icon, you will see a colour palette which will allow you to change the
colour of your text.
You can also change the transparency by tapping on the middle icon on the bottom of the screen.
The next tool is called Curves.
This was a recent tool that Google added through an update as well as the expand tool which
I'm going to tell later.
The curves tool is a tool if you want to dive in a bit more deeper with editing your photographs.
You may notice top photographers use this tool if they want to go a bit more further
with editing.
There's also presets as well if you want to try them out as they will make some small
changes to the photograph that you have.
You also have your Red Green and Blue Colours as well if you want to dive in deeper, but
I would only recommend the curves tool if you are serious with editing your photos.
And the last tool Is called Expand, this was a new tool that Google has added throughout
an update to this application.
The expand tool is useful if you want to frame your photographs.
It will allow you to create a background which can be changed to white, black or smart.
I wouldn't really recommend smart as it will destroy your photograph and it doesn't work
well because it takes long to process.
Now I'm going to move on with the Filters that you can do with your photographs.
The first tool is called Lense Blur and I use this tool a lot.
This tool can be used if you want to get a blur effect which is also called a Depth Of
Field.
You can move the dot to position the bit that you need focusing on and you can increase
or decrease the blur effect, transition meaning how far it would get to get the blur effect
and with this filter you also get the vignette effect thrown into the photograph, you can
also decrease the strength of that effect too, so it's not compulsory.
The first thing you see at the bottom menu is that you can change the blur circle to
a rectangle which can help if you are trying to get other parts in the photograph blurred.
You also have shapes which can change the effect of the blur.
The next filter is called Glamour Glow.
It is used if you want to add some Glow to your photos.
It is useful if you want to make your selfies more prettier.
You have a couple of presets to choose from and you can change the Glow, saturation meaning
how colourful the image is going to be and the warmth which means adding more of a warm
white balance or a cold white balance.
This feature is what I use for mostly all of my photographs and it really helps with
that.
It's called Tonal Contrast.
This filter is useful if you want to sharpen up the details you don't really see as much.
I don't really dive deeper with the filter but I just tap on it and the software automatically
adds it in for me.
You of course have some extra options to dive deeper like changing the High Tones, Mid Tones
and Low Tones but that's if you want to go further with editing the sharpness.
The next filter is called HDR-Scape.
This filter is used if you take Landscape Photographs and if you do that then I would
recommend you use this feature for every landscape photograph because it brightens the whole
photograph up and it makes the clouds in the photograph stand out and in my opinion the
photograph just screams with detail with this filter.
You do have presets like Nature if you have some nature included like trees and you also
have a people mode if you have a photograph with people on it.
I don't really use the fine and strong filters but they're there to try out if you want to
experiment with the filter.
You can change the filter strength, brightness and saturation of it as well.
For the next few filters I'm just going to go briefly over them as they are not really
the most important.
This filter called Drama is used if you have photographs of clouds.
The Grunge Filter is used if you want to have a photograph that looks like it's been out
for thousands of years.
The Grainy Film filter is used if you want your photographs to look really old with tons
of grain meaning lots of background noise going on.
Vintage is self explanatory as it's used to make your photographs look like they were
taken in the 70s.
The Retrolux filter is used to make your photographs look retro meaning having an old feeling to
them.
The Noir Filter is used to make your photos look like they were taken in 1912.
Black And White Filter is self explanatory as it will make your photos look old by making
the, colourless.
You can add frames by tapping on the frames filter, you also have presets which look great.
And this filter called Double Exposure is really great and I use it for my photographs.
The filter will allow you to blend another photograph together to create a double exposure.
I find this filter very useful to make unusual photographs that looks odd to look at.
You have presets as well if the blending doesn't go well.
Another thing Google has added into the past few update is the Face Option.
If you have a photograph of a face and it needs modifying then I would recommend this
filter as it can improve the skin colour and details altogether.
If you want to remove a filter or tool that you made or you just want to edit one, just
tap on the icon that looks like an arrow over two papers.
You will be able to undo and redo.
At the bottom you can save your looks to save time when editing and above that you can view
your last edits or filters you added.
Just tap on one filter or tool and you can edit it or delete the tool or filter you have
added.
Once you made all of your changes and you want to save your finished image, all you
need to do is to tap on the arrow facing down into a tray and tap on export, you can also
tap on export as if you want to save the photograph to a selected folder.
If you tap on export you cannot make any changes on the photograph unless you start over again
or close the application.
And you can share your photograph to Instagram or Facebook.
If you want to do some research the there is a button on the bottom of the screen that
tells you on how to make your photographs look great or what each filter can do.
I do find it helpful if I want to further enhance my editing.
One more thing I'm going to talk about is how you can change your exporting options.
All you need to do is to tap on the three dots and tap on settings you will then get
two options, we need to tap on the one below called Format And Quality.
You can change the JPEG quality to what quality suits your preference and you can also export
in PNG which is another image format if you prefer to do so.
And that's basically how to use Snapseed.
It may be quite hard to get your head around the software but once you know what you're
doing, then this software will be your best friend.
If you have any questions on what you're stuck on or need something explaining I will try
to help as much as I can from my knowledge, but that's going to wrap up this video on
how to use Snapseed, if you enjoyed this video then please be sure to like and share as it
would really help a lot, but I will see you in next week's video and um yeah goodbye.
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