Earlier, I told you how to make the best photos and videos using manual settingsAs well as Photo accessoriesWhich can help you with this. Today let's talk about the post-processing footage. How many would be skeptical to this is not treated, but the iPhone - an excellent tool for photo processing. There are many specialized applications and some of them are very decent.
What is post-processing?
photo processing involves more than the imposition of the filter for each shot. It all begins with sorting and organizing photos.
Not all of the captured images will be worthy of editing. First things first, you need to select the best of all the material. Number of selected photos depends on how much you shoot, but most often it is about 20% of the photos taken on the iPhone, and only 5% - for pictures with a DSLR-camera.
The second step is the actual photo editing. It may also be different from light changes, such as cropping, retouching to complex. It all depends on your style and the specific images.
The final step involves an action with the finished image: sending to the client, or export to the correct format. Most often, the pictures from the iPhone are laid out in a network.
With all three objectives of your iPhone easily cope only with the help of two or three applications.
Selection and management of photos
This year, Adobe has released a great tool for working with photos Adobe Lightroom for iPhone. Although it was conceived as a companion app and extension for the main computer, processing, mobile Lightroom works great as a complete, self-contained tool.
Price: Free
With it you can automatically import all the pictures from your camera roll. After which they can easily notice, add to, or reject, by using simple control gestures. It is very convenient, and most importantly - fast, so you can easily go through a stack of photographs selected for further work best. Photos can be labeled with a flag or assign a rating that extends sorting capabilities.
It is also convenient that from Lightroom, you can open any photo to set up other application that supports the expansion and function of the "Open In ...". Once you save the results of editing images in the camera roll - they are imported into Lightroom catalog again.
And one more trick. In iOS 8 there was a function of adding a photo to your favorites, so any photo that you mark "heart", will be added in a separate album "Favorites." This method can be used for easy storage of all selected photos in one place and to proceed with them.
Photo editing on the iPhone
Lightroom for iPhone is good that in addition to the selection and sorting of photos, it offers also some editing tools. If you need some easy changes like cropping, white balance, exposure, contrast, and the like, it all can be done easily, as they say, "on the spot". Some presets from "adult» Lightroom, are also present, but they are not very good and you almost can not control of the process, so when you want a more substantial editing photos, it is better to open another application.
Basic photo editing
I, like many other photographers prefer VSCOCam, when you need to process the photos on the iPhone. Some things VSCOCam doing much better than Lightroom and, in addition, it can very accurately recreate different types of films. VSCOCam opens up great opportunities post-production right on your iPhone.
Price: Free
The app is free, as well as a basic set of filters available as additional sets opened through internal purchase. If you need more features, then it makes sense to spend money on them. VSCOCam stands out from other applications, above all, quality presets. They are very clever and well-designed. Adjust the saturation of the preset you, in most cases, get a perfect image, looking at that feeling of satiety and not cheap filter will occur. Apart from the filters, VSCOCam offers basic photo adjustments, and the ability to crop to a specific format.
Also, do not forget that in addition to everything else VSCOCam still camera. The choice is yours, but I still prefer Manual.
A more sophisticated photo editing
To edit directly on the iPhone and more complex changes, the best choice is Snapseed. This app was developed by Nik Software, the manufacturer of plug-ins for Lightroom and different applications for editing photos, which are popular among photographers. Snapseed was so good that Google bought Nik Software, to integrate Snapseed with Google+.
Price: Free
To make local edits, the application uses a patented Nik Software U Point technology. Through this, you can really fine-tune the settings of individual sections of the photo by setting a certain scale and range. For example, for the selected area, you can adjust the contrast and saturation without applying the changes to the rest of the image. If you want to darken or lighten the sky object in the foreground - Snapseed is the best app on the iPhone, which can cope with this task. In addition to manual adjustments, the application has some presets that can help you get some interesting effects on the photo. In general, Snapseed - it is a very useful thing, besides, it's free.
other applications
In addition to these I have mentioned, there are thousands of different applications for editing photos. Most of them are simply added on top of your photo mediocre filters and they are all alike as two drops of water. Among them, however, there are also more or less decent options, so there are a lot also depends on the photographer and his taste. I use Lightroom for iPhone, VSCOCam Snapseed for editing and 95% of their photos on the iPhone, the remaining 5% is Camera +, Photoshop Touch, and very rarely filters of Instagram.
Price: 229 rubles
Price: Free
Shering and export photos
Agree, is to take photos and store them on your iPhone, very little sense. Final photo processing step involves exporting them. Usually this means iPhoneography unloading photos on the network.
If you want to share your masterpieces with friends and family, then the easiest way is to Facebook or Twitter. Instagram is not inferior them in popularity, and has many advantages. However, he is not without some limitations: all photos will have lower resolution and 1x1 format. For those who want to share their work with other photographers and to be able to keep them at full resolution, you can recommend to Flickr and 500px.
Price: Free
Price: Free
All of these services have their own iOS-applications that you can use to publish your photos. But if you wish for the same purpose, you can use Lightroom or embedded application Photos - Selected images can be shared on any social networks directly from the exchange menu. This will allow to carry out all the processing steps within a single application, instead of having to use multiple, getting used to different interfaces.
video Processing
With the video processing on the iPhone, things are more complicated. There are many applications that allow to glue rollers and apply simple filters, but more sophisticated editing tools available to it due to hardware limitations. Photo processed on the iPhone is not inferior to a photo manipulated on a computer (when not talking about Photoshop). Unfortunately, the video is a statement to be incorrect.
There are two good applications for video, which can be isolated from the rest - it's iMovie and Pinnacle Studio. iMovie is an official Apple app works well on iOS and very easy to use. Pinnacle Studio - it's more functional, but also a complicated application. If your plans include trimming or gluing together multiple clips, and overlay the background music - both programs will suit you. However, for something more complex in iPhone, enough processor, memory and disk space.
conclusion
Many people mistakenly believe that the post-processing of photos is to change the appearance of photos, with regard to the iPhone, this means over a slap shot some fashion filter. In fact, you can achieve much more if desired.
Applications such as Lightroom Mobile give you almost the same features for sorting and minor changes as the computer. Other editors, such as VSCOCam and Snapseed, developed by the creators of plugins and software for "adult" fotoinstrumentov. And even the possibility sheringa not confined to Instagram.
This, unfortunately, can not be said video processing. iPhone takes great video, but its performance is simply not enough for any serious manipulation of the rolls.
If you are using other tools for processing and you like them, tell us about them in the comments.
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