How to edit your Instagram pictures with Snapseed

How to edit your Instagram pictures with Snapseed.  It is very easy and it does a proper job.
See this movie how it works:

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Snapseed editing for your cell phone and tablet images

Even though we've got a couple of biggish Canons with equally big objectives, we do still go out there and shoot with our cell phone too. The image quality is actually kind of alright. As it's a bit cumbersome to start editing your cell phone images via Photoshop or Lightroom, I find Snapseed a great app to edit in. 

Snapseed is a free app which can be used for editing your pictures on your mobile and/or tablet. Snapseed was originally developed by Nik Software. Snapseed is non-destructive, so you can always step back during your editing. And you've got loads of options in Snapseed.

So it's just a question of downloading the app and you can edit to your hearts content. 

You've got the possibility to choose an image that's already on your device or you can make a new picture. And you've also got the option to edit the very last image you took. 

When you open an image you'll get a new screen: 

In Snapseed editing, there's 3 important things to remember: 

1. This is where Snapseed shows the histogram of your picture.

2. With the pencil you can start your editing.

3. Behind the three dots you can find more options. For example a step back in your editing.

Let's see what the editing options are by clicking on the pencil:

You can see that there are two parts on this screen:

1. Tools
2. Filters

It's impossible to describe all the functionalities. But let's just check out what Crop does to your image:

You can see that there are a lot of aspect ratios you can choose from. Or you can choose your own by moving the outer edges of your image inwards.  When you're done you can click on check mark.

On the main screen you can see the counter hopped to 1. This indicates that you did 1 adjustment.

Click on the pencil  again and choose one of the filters. In this case I went with Black and White. 

Here you get to choose different kind of looks. After choosing one you click on the check mark. On the main screen you'll now see that the counter shows 2.  

Clicking on the counter will show the layers (the things you did with the image)

One of the best things is that you can work on the whole picture or just work locally. 

In the picture below I did some Dodge and Burn and you can see the mask (where the effect will appear in the image). 

There really are so many options. Just download the app and play around with it.

When you are satisfied with the image don't forget to click on Save.

 

Choose one of the three options and you're done!

Here is my end result of the quick image edit in Snapseed: 

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Sharing your pictures with the world using Lightroom mobile

When you have Lightroom you also have the possibility to synchronize it with your phone or ipad (or android tablet). You can also make pictures with for example your phone, edit it on your mobile and share it with the world. Sounds cool right? 

So here's the steps to get started with this cool app and make use of all its features: 

1. Download the Lightroom mobile app

2. Open the app 

3. Sign in with you Adobe_id 

The first time you log in, it syncs all the collections that are marked as 'synced' in your Lightroom

On the first screen you'll get an overview of your collections. 

You can now open a collection and/or directly select a picture. 

The great thing is that you can do all the editing on your mobile device! 

You can also see the 'Before and After'

Besides editing you can also add images from the camera roll of your device. You can either add them to your photos or to a collection.  

Ofcourse there's also the possibility to take a new photo with your device. 

What I consider a really cool feature is that you can change your settings, for example the white balance, before you take a picture.

You can now edit your picture. 

It's also very easy to remove the pictures out of Lightroom Mobile

Exactly like in the browser version of Lightroom, you can share your pictures / collections. When you'd like to share a collection, just click on the three dots on the right. 

You can either view it on the web or share it with friends or clients

Just play around with it to see the power of Lightroom Mobile. If you'd like to read some more about this great app, check out this page from Adobe.  

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Cool features! Adobe Lightroom in a browser

I love working with the Adobe suite. And now with Lightroom, you've got the possibility to connect it with your iPad and phone, using the Lightroom mobile app. 

What I reckon is a great feature that you have the possibility to work on or show your images in a web browser. It's so easy! 

So how does it work: 

Go to https://lightroom.adobe.com/ (on any one of your devices)

Log in with your Adobe_ID

You'll now be presented with the start screen

It syncs the pictures from Lightroom that are in a collection. When you make a collection in Lightroom, there is also the possibility to sync it with Lightroom mobile

In this case I added 2 pictures to a new collection in Lightroom:  

When you go to the browser and refresh it, voila! The pictures appear in your browser.

And when you have acces to a device, you can view your images and edit them without even having Lightroom. Open a picture and you'll see the edit button in the left corner of the screen:

Click on edit and fire away

When you're done editing, click on the Save and Exit button. In this case I made the picture B/W

And when you're back at your usual post processing station and open Lightroom, you can see what work has been done, in Lightroom! 

Another cool thing is the possibility to share pictures. Click on a collection and choose share

Now you can share the pictures with for example a client.  Just share the Link in the screen above with your client. The client can then open the link and see all the pictures you've shared. 

And ofcourse, there's also the possibility to share on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

I had great fun checking this out! So go and find out for yourself how useful these features are. 

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