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Hey what's up guys Stephen Cults of Mac here and in this video I'm going to show
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you how to use the free app Snapseed to tune your photos to best effect. So let's
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get started. Snapseed is a free image editing app from Google that has some
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fantastic editing tools to make any photo even better. So here's a quick
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intro to these fantastic tools and how to make them tune your photos to best
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effect. Launch Snapseed then tap on open photo button in the lower part of the
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splash screen. With your chosen photo up on the iPad screen tap the little pencil
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icon in the lower right. Then choose the tune image tool to get down to it. If
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this is the first time you've opened Snapseed you'll get a listless tutorial explaining that you can adjust the current setting which is brightness by
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default by swiping across the screen left and right. If you swipe up and down
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however you'll be able to choose one of the seven photo adjustments available. Brightness, ambience, contrast, saturation, shadows, highlights and warmth. Swipe
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your finger and choose brightness to start. Swipe left or right to brighten or darken the entire image and stay at a subtle number between minus 10 and plus
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10. Anything more or less is too much. Next try ambience. Swipe up to choose
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ambience from the parameter list then adjust ambience with a swipe right or
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left. Feel free to bump it up all the way to 30 or 35 if you want or heck just
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slide around until your photo looks the way you like it. Using a negative ambience number will darken shadows and soften up lighter areas for some mood
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Hop into contrast settings next and bump it up a bit to make shadows darker and
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highlights brighter. Then try out the saturation slider. Colors get more vibrant as you slide to the right. You can slide all the way to the left to
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make a gorgeous black and white image or just a little to the right to bring out the color in a photo. Don't do too much though as an overly saturated photo never
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looks quite right. Use the shadow slider to bring in some more detail but again
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don't overuse this one. The warmth slider is lovely for adjusting overall color
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balance of the photo. It's called temperature in other editing apps and you'll be adding some orange overtones to warm up the photo or some blues to
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cool it down. See what you can get with just small adjustments. With each of
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these parameters you can also use the auto adjust tool near the bottom of the image. This lets the apps algorithms determine the specific adjustment
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Finally to test out your edits against the original tap on the little preview
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icon in the upper right. This will show you the original image before the
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changes you made. Lift your finger up to see the edits. This is a great way to
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really make sure you've made the changes you want to. Now you've got a simple free
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way to tune your photos to the best effect right on your iPad with Snapseed
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Well that's it for this video but if you've edited any photos using this
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tutorial leave a link in the comments down below as I'd love to check them out
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Also if you found this video useful go ahead and hit that like button as it
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