Last Updated on June 3, 2017 by gregor
Instagram the most popular photo sharing platform has over 700 million active users.
Here are some really cool and easy editing tips. Let’s get started!
How do I edit my Instagram images?
I mainly use 2 Editing Apps.
Snapseed and VSCOCam
Snapseed and VSCOCam are both free photo editing Apps you can download from the App store to your mobile. (both Android or iOS)
SNAPSEED EDITING
Once you opened a picture use first “Tune Image” and check out all the various editing options you have. When you press and scroll the screen up and down, you have different menu choices.
Click the “Tool” button on the right
go to “Details” (first button Top right)
- Increase the Structure +10 to +15%
- Sharpening +7% to +10%
go to “Tune Image” (Top button left)
- increase Brightness +15 to +20%
- Increase Contrast +5% to +12%
- Saturation +3% to +5%
- Ambiance -15% to – 5%
- Highlights +15% to +25%
- Shadows +5%
- Warmth +3% to +5%
go to “White Balance” (Left)
- If necessary manually or auto-white balance
go to “Healing”(right)
- remove unwanted spots like dust or street-signs
- Hint, enlarge the photo with 2 Fingers so you also can remove smaller objects
go to “Crop” (right)
- Crop photo as applicable mostly used to follow the golden rule of Photography
go to “Selective” (left)
- choose the specific part of your photo you want to edit “brightness, “contrast”, “saturation”, structure”
go to “rotate” (right)
- use to make sure i.e. the horizon is correct
Then save the edited photo on your photo album.
VSCOCam FILTERS and EDITS
Transfer the photo to the VSCOCam App. Once you open the app, you can choose from several VSCOCam filters. (There are free filters but VSCO offers you the possibility to purchase additional filter packs in the In-App-Store.
Most popular VSCOCam filters are
- A5, A6, M5, F2,
- Hyperbeast (HB1+HB2 paid)
- S1+S2+S3 (Bright and Clean, paid).
INSTAGRAM EDITS
Finally, upload your picture to Instagram and make your final edits. If you like add an Instagram filter to give your picture the final look. Then adjust here “Brightness” “Contrast”, “Structure” and “Sharpen” all a little bit (+5% to +8%)
Voila! Here you go!
How do you edit your Instagram photos? Please let me know by leaving a comment below. Many thanks!
Here are some examples:
VSCO Filter use A6
VSCO Filter used S2
VSCO Filter used A5
VSCO Filter used HB1
VSCO Filter used HB1
VSCO Filter used F1
VSCO Filter used M6
VSCO Filter used A5
VSCO Filter used A5
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