Posts

17 Best Video Editing Software Solutions For Beginners In 2020

Image
Videos are an effective way to improve viewer engagement on a website or social media post. They are also driving sales in a big way. In 2018, 76% of consumers (mostly millennials) decided to buy a product or service after viewing a video and 21% of consumers found video content more memorable than other content types. But social media audiences are becoming more sophisticated by the day. Basic videos aren’t enough to get their attention. You need slick, professional looking videos to impress them. Best Video Editing Software You Should Check Out For that you don’t need a visual studio or a bona fide editor to refine your visual content. There are many simple-to-use and affordable online video editing software solutions that you can use to make your videos more compelling. This week, we take a look at the top 17 video editing software solutions for beginners in 2020. Video Editing Software #1:  Adobe Adobe has always...

Top Photo Editing Apps for Your Phone

Image
These days the camera on your smartphone is one of its most important features. Phone manufacturers have been falling over themselves for years now to bring us the best cameras with the most impressive bells and whistles. We’ve seen Google pumping crazy AI features into its Pixel phones and Huawei adding privacy-busting 50X zoom to its P30 Pro. Most phones now, even budget offerings, have two or sometimes even three lens camera app systems as well as a separate front-facing camera for selfies and video calls. It isn’t just about taking photos though, oh no. These days, if you want your photos to stand out on social media, you need to optimize your photos once you’ve snapped them. That means editing them to make sure they look as good as they possibly can. Fortunately, however, just as the hardware manufacturers have been working overtime on their cameras, software developers have been working hard on photo-editing apps. Let’s look at the best photo editing apps available for...

How to Create Realistic Shadows for Product Photography in Photoshop

Image
If you’ve ever used Adobe Photoshop’s built-in Layer Styles tool as-is for creating drop shadows, you may have found it lacking in realism. Here’s a better way to add shadows to your product photography. A lot of the time I use Layer Styles for quick and dirty Photoshop jobs that are more about conveying the sense of depth or texture rather than really making it look lifelike when viewed close up. That’s where  Tony Roslund ’s quick tip comes in (with a hat tip to Aaron Nace from Phlearn). As a professional product photographer, he needs those high-quality shadows for his clients that can usually only be achieved by taking some extra steps. Rather than going to the Layer Styles route, Roslund shows us how to use multiple duplicate layers to build more complex and lifelike shadows. By stacking shadows, his examples also have all the benefits of being independent layers to mask or further refine. Have you tried creating realistic shadows in Photoshop before? Do you use th...

How To Resize Image On iPhone In 2 Different Ways

Image
Your  iPhone's  camera is a powerful tool with great resolution, multiple photo formats, and even built-in editing tools.  You can use your Photos app to brighten or darken the image, change color saturation, crop the picture, and more.  How to resize an image on an iPhone in Photos It's also possible to resize an image in the Photos app, with a variety of common dimensions available through the "Edit" feature to ensure the printed image fits a standard picture frame. The Photos app on your iPhone only allows you to resize using a few preset image ratios.  While all of these iPhone image editing tools are decent, what none of them can do is resize the image in a carefully customized way — nor can they be used to control image resolution.  To ensure a given picture is of high enough resolution, you'll need a third-party photo editing app. How to resize an image on an iPhone using Image Size Image Size  is ...