You can also move the center of the circle so that it is in the best place for your photo. To resize the center, pinch two fingers and slide apart or together. This dark vignette reached too far into the center, making the flower too dark as well, so I adjusted the size of the center circle of the vignette. I cropped the image to 1×1, centering the flower evenly in the crop.Īfter I added a vignette, I brought the outer brightness down to -100% so it would be completely black around the edges. So I pulled up the middle of the curve and the shadows and blacks.īut then I decided instead to go with one of Snapseed’s curve presets that brought up the darks and shadows and also muted the greens a bit.Įither of those choices would have worked fine for my final photo since I eventually removed all of the green leaves anyway. I opened my photo in Snapseed and then went into the TOOLS section and selected CURVES.īecause the shadows were a little too dark in the center of the flower, I wanted to bring up the mid-tones and the shadows. If you haven’t used Snapseed before, I highly recommend downloading it. Snapseed is user-friendly with an intuitive interface and an extensive offering of editing tools, including presets and filters.
Snapseed is a fantastic, robust photo editing app for iPhones and Android – and it is free!
So I used the Snapseed photo editing app for mobile phones to edit the shot. Since I photographed the flower on my iPhone, I wanted to edit it on my phone as well. I focused on the center of the flower and adjusted the exposure slightly. I got in close and used the regular camera on my iPhone. I knew that I wanted to photograph the flower straight on and with enough room around the edges of the flower to crop it symmetrically in a square. If the sun is bright, it is best to diffuse the light with some form of diffuser or try to shoot in open shade.įor this photograph, I shot it on a cloudy day and in the open shade of our neighbor’s house. So, photographing on a cloudy day can work beautifully. When photographing flowers, it usually works best to avoid shooting in direct, harsh sunlight. It was a quick edit trick that saved me from making a detailed selection in Photoshop, while also evenly darkening the outer petals of the flower to create a more dazzling final image. Instead of selecting the flower and removing the background in Photoshop, I used the Vignette Tool in the mobile photo editing app Snapseed to replace the leaves and trees in the original photo with a black background. I wanted to show off the flower without the distracting background. I took this stunning image of a Camellia blossom in my backyard.
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