You took photos on your iPhone or iPad for work and now you want to edit them. You can do this right in the Photos app, which offers a range of editing tools and features.
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The app lets you adjust brightness, exposure, contrast, and other attributes. You can apply different filters and crop, rotate and straighten the image. Let’s see how this works.
How to edit your photos with your Apple mobile device
Launch the Photos app on your device and open the image you want to edit. Tap the Edit command at the top right of the screen. The first control at the bottom of the screen allows you to change the visual appearance of the image.
To enhance your photo with the app, tap the Auto Enhance icon. This option adjusts all attributes in a shot, including exposure, brilliance, and highlights. Move the slider right and left to adjust the overall look of the photo (Figure A).
Figure A
If you don’t like the changes Auto Enhance made, tap the Undo icon at the top of the screen to remove them (Figure B).
Figure B
If you prefer to adjust each attribute individually, tap the auto-enhancement icon again to turn it off. Go to the other controls – Exposure, Brilliance, Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Brightness, Black Point, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth, Hue, Sharpness, Definition, Noise Reduction, and Vignette.
For each photo, move the slider right and left until you change the photo’s appearance to your satisfaction (Figure C).
Figure C
After adjusting the overall look of the photo, you can apply different color filters. Tap the filter icon at the bottom of the screen, then swipe through the different filters – Original, Vivid, Vivid Warm, Vivid Cool, Dramatic, Dramatic Warm, Dramatic Cool, Mono, Silvertone, and Noir.
For each filter, move the slider left and right to change the effect of the filter photo (Figure D).
Figure D
If you like the changes you’ve made at this point and want to apply them to other photos, tap the three-dot icon at the top and choose Copy Changes. After editing and saving your current photo, you can apply the visual edits to another image (Figure E).
Figure E
Next, tap on the third icon below. To flip the photo horizontally, tap the first icon at the top. To rotate the photo, tap the second icon at the top. Keep tapping to keep rotating the image (Figure F).
Figure F
To change the overall aspect ratio of the photo, tap the third icon at the top right. You can then tap one of the ratios below – Original, Freeform, Square or Background (Figure G).
Figure G
Next, the numerical aspect ratios can be applied to your portrait or landscape photo. Tap one of these number ratios and then tap either the portrait icon or the landscape icon.
The following ratios are available: 9:16 or 16:9, 4:5 or 5:4, 5:7 or 7:5, 3:4 or 4:3, 3:5 or 5:3 and 2:3 or 3 :2. To exit aspect ratio mode, tap the same icon (Figure H).
Figure H
In any mode, you can crop the photo by dragging the handles on each side or corner (Figure I).
Figure I
To skew the photo manually, tap the Straighten icon at the bottom. Drag the slider to tilt the photo left or right. To expand the photo at the top or bottom, tap the second icon at the bottom, then move the slider left or right. To expand the photo left or right, tap the third icon below, then move the slider (Figure J).
Figure J
You can undo the cropping and rotating changes you’ve made at any time by tapping the “Reset” command at the top. When you’re done, tap Done in the bottom right to save the photo with all your changes and exit edit mode, or tap Cancel to discard all your changes and then exit.
Open another photo to apply the changes to that image. Tap the three-dot icon at the top and select Paste Edits (Figure K).
Figure K
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