How I Edit My Instagram Pictures

I ran a poll on Twitter recently asking if people would like to see a post on how I edit my blog photographs (coming soon) so I decided to write one about how I edit my Instagram pictures as well. I definitely don’t see myself in a position to be giving tips, this is just how I do it and if it helps you, that’s great!

Sometimes I take my photographs on my Canon and then send them to myself so the quality is better but since I upgraded to an iPhone 6S, I hardly ever need to do this anymore as the camera is so brilliant. But taking bulk photographs on another camera (if you have one) is really handy. I don’t just randomly take images of anything in bulk, they are usually ones that will be promoting future blog posts.

PIN IT!The first thing I do for every photograph is up the brightness and the exposure. I do this until the image is nice and bright. Sometimes I need to up the brightness fully to 100, other times I only need to do it a bit. This is also personal preference on how bright you like your image to be.

Next I always sharpen the image, this I only do a little bit usually keeping it less than 20 as I don’t want the image to look too over edited and too much makes the image grainy. This just makes the image a little more crisp and clear.

Finally, sometimes I use the structure feature but not always, this makes the colours in the images a little deeper. If I use this, I usually keep it to under 25 as I don’t want the colours to look too overdone.

I very rarely use a filter and if I do, I only use Willow to turn my image black and white. I like this one as it doesn’t make the photo too dark and it gives skin an airbrushed effect (who doesn’t love that?!)

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This image was taken with my phone and you can see the after picture is slightly brighter and more crisp and the colours are less dark and dull.

PIN IT!This image of my Olympus Pen was taken on my Canon 600D camera and once in Instagram I upped the brightness and exposure both to the maximum of 100 and then sharpened the image a tiny bit. I love how this one turned out.

PIN IT!This image was taken with my Olympus Pen E-PL7 camera, I upped the brightness and saturation slightly, structured it a little and then finally sharpened it a tiny amount, love the end result of this one too.

It’s amazing how a little bit of editing can transform an image, uploading photographs to Instagram is one of my most favourite things, I love that app, editing photos in general is fun for me! If you don’t already, make sure to follow me over on Instagram  and leave your Instagram handles below! I hope you found this little post helpful.

How do you edit your Instagram snaps?

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