9 Tips to edit photos on your phone

- To fully edit photos, you really do not always need special apps. Default, there is already an app on your smartphone and tablet that lets you do that just fine. All important tools in it, so your visual revamp.

With the Photos app default on your iPhone is, you can see the pictures and movies you obviously makes viewing and playback device. You can also edit your photos with. When viewing a photo on the screen, right touch Change. The magic wand is the simplest tool.

The iPhone is indeed the magic wand which lost the top right of the screen. Lets you improve the picture automatically. Unlike the name suggests, it made no miracles again, so you will often still have to swerve to the other tools in order to best edit the photo. See the result there fine, that is a welcome bonus. Is the result against, you just tap a second time so that the change is undone.

Tap the icon of a square with three balls, one set appears ready-made filters. Lets give the photo a different look smoothly. Tap again until you have got a nice copy, or select None to turn off the filter if there is nothing to your taste between.

Tip 1 In the photos there are several ready-made filters to choose from.

During shooting, we hold an iPhone or iPad sometimes unnoticed a little oblique. Then of course you get a skewed picture. That is not always annoying and often it does not even fall on. Unless there is something in the picture that we know should be the law. Think of a wall or the horizon. In that case, you put the picture easily weather right through the crop icon.

That looks like a square with two curved arrows next to it. rotate through the protractor you the picture until it is nicely upright. Place two fingers on the photo and move them apart or pinching it to zoom in or out. Then drag one finger to put the right piece of the picture inside the marquee. It creates a beautiful crop. Another possibility to crop the picture by dragging one or more vertices. Sorry? To make the tool undo tap Restore next to the protractor. The tool also has two (less obvious) icons. That you rotate the picture in increments of ninety degrees or imagine a standard aspect ratio such as 1: 1, 3: 2, 4: 3 or 16: 9.

Tip 2 Turn the picture until it is tidy up and make a nice crop.

The tools with the most opportunities do you find under the icon of an old-fashioned dial. There are three groups of operations available to you, namely Light, Color and B / W (black / white). Once you tap a group, you will see a kind of filmstrip that works like a regular slider. Wipe it over with a finger to make the photo lighter or darker, giving more or less color or to choose the most beautiful black-and-white effect. Want to go back to its original state? Wipe up the next filmstrip tip neatly falls on the red horizontal line. That say the zero position of the slider.

Tip 3 through the filmstrip imagine include the exposure or color in.

By default Photos app a lot of things simultaneously adjusts once you swipe the filmstrip slider. For a photo just to fit where it is really needed, tap next to or below the filmstrip on the menu icon (three dashes with dots sure) once you have selected an edit group. In the group Light can you include the lighting and contrast optimal, or you improve the light and dark parts of the picture independently. The latter is useful if there is such a thing as a fierce air, or deep shadows are visible.

In the group Colors can include adjusting the saturation or remove a color cast. That way you really get the best in a photo up. This time you see a simple slider. Above the slider or the filmstrip always read what you customize exactly. For example, exposure or saturation, light or color.

Tip # 4 There are quite a lot of specific operations possible.

Once you've edited a photo to taste, tap Done to return to the playback mode from the Photos app. The special thing about the iPhone is that you now see the dates you edited version of this picture, but you can adjust again the operations at any time and they may even undo.

Normally, the original image is overwritten and there is no turning back, but the Photos app saves your changes sneak in a separate file. You do not notice it, but this means that the original image is still there. You edit the picture again, you can see for example in the groups Light and Color adjustments are all again and you can re-sit the sliders. Cropping or rotating a photo, you can also create and then redo. Because you are always working with the original photo file, goes even lost when editing multiple times not a speck of quality.

Tip 5 The existing operation is adjusted again without loss of quality.

Also on an Android device is almost always a Photos app available. That is of course one other than Apple devices: it is the Google Photos app. Because manufacturers decide which apps they feather flour standard, it may happen that the app is missing you. In that case, you simply remove it from here on Google Play. See a photo and tap the pin to start editing. At the bottom you will see two toolbars. make through the bottom bar you choose from one of three treatment groups, after you select a tool in the bar above or the operation.

Tip 6 Google Images you see at the bottom two toolbars.

Tap the bottom toolbar icon when tabs are then tap the wand to optimize the picture automatically. Touch Back when the operation disappointing. Tap Light to take a picture lighter or darker in color to make the colors more or less saturated. Standing with increase or decrease your overall contrast in the image. Finally, you can see the edge of the image with Vignette a tad darker, so you redirect the attention of the viewer to the middle of the picture.

Tip 7 Improve lighting and color and add a nice vignette to.

Are you fond of filters? This app also has a variety of on-board, so you can enjoy tasty. Filters are an accessible way to get your photos quickly to give a nice appearance, without you having to delve into all kinds of complicated editing techniques. Tap in the lower toolbar, click the middle icon (square with a mountain landscape), and a wide selection filters appears. Tap them comfortable piece by piece, until you encounter an effect that matches the photo you are currently editing. To prevent pictures seem too much like each other, the filters have a slider that lets you adjust the effect. Falls against and use this picture without the filter prefer? Then choose called Securities None.

Tip 8 The effect of filter you adjust it with a slider.

The third and final icon (crop tool with two curved arrows next to it) is a lot more interesting. This use you again to put a picture crooked straight, or a straight photograph convert just deliberately skewed as it is beautiful. Swipe the slider to the desired angle in the set. The icon behind the scroll bar allows you to rotate is a picture in increments of ninety degrees. Useful for example to put a picture neatly upright as the orientation sensor on your tablet or smartphone has not done automatically. You can also tap the slider left to Auto. Then the app is trying to put your photos automatically right and cut out. Edits that you do photos with the app, you can unfortunately not be reversed when you save a photo. However, the edited photo is saved as a new file, thus the original is preserved.

Tip 9 You can easily straighten a photo with the grid.