Editing Photos On Your Phone with No Apps

You have a phone. You have photos. Have you ever tried editing your photos on your phone... and just got frustrated?

This session is for you if:

• You have experienced this frustration and gave up
• You didn't even know there were editing tools available
• You are experienced photographer but found the little sliders on the phone fiddly and gave up after approximately 68 seconds of fiddling

(That last one was me! I had a fair amount of experience editing digital photos when I got my first phone with a "real" camera, and the default editing experience drove me up the wall.)

In this session, I'll be covering:

• A meta-method for learning how to use photo editing software
• Filters! What they are, how they work, why only three of them are any good
• Every single photo adjustment slider on an iPhone and what they are used for (If you have an Android phone, your sliders are mostly exactly the same but, depending on the Android version and phone, you may be missing sliders or have extra ones)
• HDR (High Dynamic Range) and how it fools you into thinking your photos are better than they are
• A general workflow for editing photos
• Any questions you might have

At the end of this session, you'll know more about photo editing, especially on phones. And hopefully you'll have a few new guidelines and tricks up your sleeve when you take a photo of something and it just looks a bit blah.

• Beginner
• Design
• Other