Over the past few months photo editing has become a lot quicker for me, I used to use Photoshop in the past to edit my blog photos however it was very time consuming. I now use iPhoto to edit all my blog photos and find it much quicker and simpler, plus I think the finished result looks just as good. I tend to just use Photoshop now if I want to do something different such as create gifs or layer images.
When I edit outfit photos I like to move the middles levels slider around half way down which brightens up the photo, it will normally look quite faded at this point which is when I increase the contrast between 15-20 until I like the colours in the photo. I’ll add a little more saturation to bring out the colours in the photograph and then increase the exposure the tiniest amount.
This is so easy to do and now that I’ve been doing it for quite a while it’s very quick. The last thing I then do is crop the photo to the desired size and then it’s finished. Here’s what a before and after looks like, it’s much brighter and the colours are more enhanced in the finished image.
Moving onto makeup and beauty photos, I edit these slightly different. I still move the middle level slider bar around half way down with a little exposure, but when I add the contrast and saturation I change this until the colour matches the actual real colour of the product. These take me a little longer as I like to brighten up the photo whilst capture the true colour of the product, especially if I’m showing products such as lipsticks or eyeshadows.
So that is how I edit my blog photos! I hope you enjoyed this post as I personally love reading how others edit their photos so I thought it would be nice to share how I edit mine too. I did love using Photoshop in the past but found it was too time consuming so I only use it now if I want to do something a little more complicated, for general editing I think iPhoto works just as good. let me know if you also edit blog photos without Photoshop or what you use to edit photos in general!
Rebecca x
It’s such a huge difference when you split the picture in half!
The way you edit your photo’s is lovely x
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Nice idea!! Love your way of editing pictures!!
Xoxo,
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What a great post! I always love reading on ways to improve my photography/ editting skills :)
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Looks lovely and I use photoshop for mine all the time but if I get a MacBook this will look like a great substitute.
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I loved reading this, it’s so helpful. I’m always looking for new ways to improve my photos and like you, I love reading posts like these! Thank you for sharing your tips :)
Sian Cakey Dreamer
Nice post, and very useful too! Just like you I tend to change mostly the contrast, saturation and exposure because most of the time, photos are naturally darker than what it is in real life. I can be so hard to photograph the colour of makeup products, it’s always a struggle to get the photos to look right too! I use PicMonkey and it’s really easy! :)
Julia xx
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This is really handy, I always find brightening up an image with exposure settings is ideal for blog posts x
Such good tips! Thanks, Rebecca! I always think your pictures look so great. xx
I never really get the hang of photoshop because it looks too complicated for me, and I don’t know why I never tried playing with the levels in iPhoto before! I feel like such a dumb dumb right now. Thanks for the tip! :)
Hi there!
I’m new to your blog, and I wanted to say I really enjoyed this short but informative post! Do you generally take blog photos on your iPhone, and thus edit with the iPhoto app? Thank you for an interesting post!
Lisa
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Hello, glad you liked it! No I take my photos with the Canon 70D and then edit with iPhoto on my Macbook :)