HOW TO: EDIT INSTAGRAM PHOTOS

Years after my last "how to" post- here you go.

I've already posted this in my instagram stories but I guess it's only fair if I make a blogpost here on how I did it as well, only here I'll make it as detailed as possible so

First know that I used Unfold for the other photos but the rest I only used instagram for like the pen and stuff.

Here's the before photo:

First is I'm going to open the photo using SnapSeed and then go into Tools

And then Perspective

What to do is first straighten the photo, like however it needs- either you pull on the photo freely or tilt horizontally or vertically

Next I'm gonna go into Tools again and then Select

What I do is I select the parts that has a slight discoloration or some parts that needs to be brighten up- pinch it and then you'll see the red color on the second photo right here. In this I only need to make changes on her face and legs 

And then when you drag it up or down the other tools will appear- either brightness, contrast, saturation and structure. And then you just drag it to the right or left and see how it changes the area you selected

Here are the selected areas on this photo



Now going into Tools again and then Tune

Now what I do is I tune the image a tiny bit. Normally I just drag all of these tools up and then decrease the shadows a little bit

And then I'm just gonna export it into my camera roll



 

Now I'm gonna go to VSCO and then open the photo that I last exported





I'm gonna go into tools again and then select the filter that I wanna use



This one I'm gonna use A6. I love- A4, A6, M5, E2, but A6 is my go-to filter and also I have all these presets because I'm using VSCOx



What I do is I just tone it down a lot, so there you go



And then I just play with the tools with like whatever the photo needs, either saturation, or sharpness, whatever.

Pro tip: If the photo is already good the way it is I just directly import it in to VSCO and just go with filters.

I already posted this in my stories but here's like the more detailed way of editing my instagram photos so I hope that helped

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