Photo Editing Art By SG Editor

Introduction:

    Photo editing is a Art when you use special computer software or  mobile apps and also using your skill to make your picture look better or different. You can Adjust colors for giving your picture a natural and eye catchy look, you can adjust things brighter or darker according to your picture look, removing stuff you do not like, and even add new things or overlays to your pictures. It is like using digital tools to fix your image or photo, improving your photo using presets, or changing the direction your photos look. I only describe photo editing in a simple words but reality is that photo editing is a massive thing and skill which can change your worst pictures into to best pictures.

How To Edit Pictures:

There are a lot of techniques and methods for photo editing. For learning photo editing skill you have to watch YouTube videos related with photo editing and practice on it then you can easily build up your photo editing skill. I will also try to understand you people  that how to edit Pictures. Just you have to follow these steps for photo editing.

Step no1:

    For Photo Editing first you have to choose a software or a app which has a clean interface, professional feature and tools which can help you to edit your photos in the best way. There are thousands of photo editing apps and software every software and app has a different interface and features. I suggest you people go with photoshop if you are using Pc or Laptop if You are using  mobile then go with PicsArt. These both software are very good for Photo editing and also help you to make your pictures creative and Vivid.

You can also go with these software:

( For Pc and Laptop )

1. Adobe Lightroom
2. Gimp
3. Capture One
4. ON1 photo Raw
5. Luminar

( For Mobile  )

1. Adobe Lightroom
2. Snapseed 
3. Adobe photoshop Express
4. VSCO 
5. Afterlight

Step no2:

    

    After a choosing a photo editing app or software just open your picture in that software which you have selected for your photo editing. There you will see a lot of tools related with photo editing such as Crop, Adjust, Curves, Effects, Texts, overlay and many more. After that you have to Select crop option For making your picture straighten also adjust perspective and rotation. if  your subject is not in correct frame with the help of crop you can adjust it accordingly and If you are editing a portrait photo then make sure that your portrait is in the center or not. And change ratio of your picture if needed.  Mostly professional photographers uses 4:5 ratio for making their photo look great in any social media platform.

Step no3:

    After cropping your picture and giving it a perfect ratio then you have to adjust colors of your picture for giving it a beautiful look. As you better know when we capture a photo with our Phone, Dslr or an other mirrorless camera then we not get as much good picture as we want to take because our eye want a vibrant and cinematic look camera pictured just show us a natural picture but don't worry in editing we can do everything which we want. In colors adjustment comes many options like  like Brightness, Contrast, Shadows, Highlights, Vibrance, Saturation, Tint, Temperature and Curves. we discuss al of them step by step for understanding you people clearly.

Exposure:

    

when we capture or take our picture in low light situation or we put highest aperture in Dslr or in mirrorless camera then we get a dark picture in that situation we can use Exposure for making our picture brighter on the other hand sometimes we get a over exposed picture in daylight situation or because of high lighting setup  in that case we can also decrease Exposure of our picture to give it a natural look.

Contrast:

    In simple words contrast increases the difference between brighter side and darker sides of the picture. A specific amount of contrast makes our picture more dramatic and low amount contrast makes colors of our picture dull. You have to adjust it according to your picture neither set it too much high nor too much low then your will be look like dramatic. You can also see the difference between these two pictures which are given below one is low contrast image second one is high contrast.

                    Low contrast Picture 

                       Contrast picture                                         

Shadows:

   Name itself showing that what function it does. it is use to control shadow part or black part of a picture. sometime we capture our picture in sunlight or in hard light situation which causes hard shadow on our subject but we can easily correct dark parts of image by increasing shadows.

Highlights:

    It controls highlighted parts of a picture. By decreasing highlights we can add more HDR ( High Dynamic Range ) in our picture.

Vibrance:

    With the help of Vibrance we can enhance the colors of less saturated parts of picture without losing any detail from picture. by adjusting Vibrance we can make our picture vibrant and also boosts colors of a picture.

Saturation: 

    It boosts and enhances over all the colors of your image and  it makes colors vivid. When you increase saturation then your picture will be look like more vibrant and when decrease the saturation of your then your picture will be get a vintage look. setup it accordingly to your pictures look.

Tint:

    This is used for giving your picture a specific tone according to your mood and environmental look. it balance the colors of your picture.

Temperature:

    With the help of temperature you can change the tone of your picture. Basically it changes warmth and coolness of image. If you Capturing your pictures in winter or artificially you want to add a winter look in picture then drag temperature dot into cooler side for giving your picture a cold and winter look and if you capturing your picture in summer or artificially you want to add a summer feel in your picture then you can drag temperature dot into warm side with the help of this technique you can artificially add warm and cool look into your picture.

Curves:

    Curves is basically a graph it has divided into three part. Highlight, Midtones and Shadows. with the help of points you can change or modify brightness of specific part of a picture. Professional always uses curves for adjusting brightness, shadows and highlights for making picture look better.

Steps 4:

       In this step we will add some texture, Clarity and sharpness in our picture basically it used for making pictures look like crisp and clear without adding this your picture will look like little a bit blurry after adding texture, Clarity and sharpness then you will see a better look in your picture.

Texture:

     

    Using this you can add textures on your picture for making it clear. If your picture is blurry it will decrease the amount of blurriness. 

Clarity:

    It helps to sharpen all the edges of your picture and make it clear visible

Sharpness:

    It makes your picture sharpen and finish the blurriness and fuzziness of your picture and makes it crisp and extra clear visibility of picture.

Step 5:

    After completing all these steps there is last one thing but the least that is vignette you should add this for making your subject clear visible.

Vignette:

    Vignette is used for making edges of picture darker or making it fade it helps to visible subject and focused on the center. it gets viewers attention in the center of the picture.

Save/ Export:

   Save or Export you picture into your gallery.

 

After using these all tools according to your picture then you can check before and result of your picture.

Before

After

       

                                                                                           

Make sure these are the basics of photo editing if you edit your picture professionally then you have to add overlays, pngs, extra lighting effects and many more. 

Online Photoshop in Mobile 

This is a online photoshop not original but it has same photoshop like interface also has similar features. You can easily use it in your mobile phone, PC, Laptop. Tablet etc. There is no need to download any kind of application or software. you can just use it online also you can edit your photo same like photoshop.