Hey y’all! Back with another installment of Photography Tip Tuesday. Today’s topic is going to cover a question that I get asked all the time: What are your favorite photo editing apps?
With the cameras on our smartphones getting better and better, many people choose to use their iPhone cameras over DSLRs just for the ease of use. I do use my iPhone for blog/instagram pictures sometimes but I also shoot with my DSLR plenty plus when I shoot with Deeana that is with her super nice camera. Either way, I like to edit the photos that go on my Instagram in the same way to achieve a very cohesive, aesthetically pleasing feed. Some people don’t care about this at all and that’s totally fine if not! But I used to always use VSCO to edit my photos in the same filter and style, and then I sort of got away from it as I was experimenting with what I liked (which I recommend, it’s the best way to figure it out and learn!) and now I am back to using my normal VSCO filters.
Favorite Photo Editing Apps
So that brings me to my first, and probably my favorite, photo editing app.
VSCO
I love VSCO because like I mentioned earlier, I am a big fan of my photos flowing together cohesively on my feed. If you scroll back through my page I think you can see where I would change the vibe of the feed up every now and then (one follower once told me that you could feel the seasons change on my posts, which I thought was funny but probably accurate.) For now, with the rebrand to Bess Harrington Carter from The Fit Fave, I am sticking to using the same filter on all of my photos because it feels more like me and true to me. If you scroll back far enough on my page (roughly back to winter of 2016) you’ll see the vibe is very similar to what it is now. VSCO has so many filters you can chose from and then you can tweak all of those to suit your taste. If you are looking for inspiration, you should search Pinterest for “VSCO filters” and it’ll give you a bunch of pictures with the filter and details used so you can find something you like.
Just an FYI, VSCO can be kind of confusing to get the hang of at first, but just play around with it and you’ll get used to it. I promise it’s worth it!
Lightroom Mobile App
I believe you need to have Lightroom on your desktop/laptop in order to get the mobile app, but I’m not sure. I could be wrong so check it out in the app store to be sure. But I specifically love the Lightroom app for making sure the colors in my picture are what I want them to be, whether that be to brighten the whites or adjust the shadows. VSCO can do this but I think Lightroom does it better. You can also adjust the other colors in your photo whether you want it to be the change the hues, saturation, and luminance of any color. This is a fun feature I think, for example, when I went to the beach I adjusted the sky to be a really cool teal blue because I liked how that went in with my feed at the time.
PicTapGo
I don’t use this one as much but it is a great option for people that want to be able to compare a bunch of filters at once and pic your favorite. It is a less manual process I think even though you can adjust the amount of the filter on each photo, when I use PicTapGo I really just want a specific filter at it’s fullest and I move on. I use it the least but for sure if you’re short on time, just go with this option.
PicMonkey
Okay so PicMonkey is web-based but I do really like it. If you ever want to put text over your images or anything this is my favorite tool to use because it’s just really easy and user-friendly. It has some filters and such too if you’d like to do it all in one place.
So there you have it. Those are my go-to’s.
What are some of your favorite photo-editing apps?
xo,
Bess
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