How to access iOS 13’s new photo editing tools

iOS 13 gives you more creativity and freedom when editing your photos with more tools, filters and features. The editing features built into the phone are more detailed and look more and more like the options you’d be used to if you were editing on a professional program - without the confusing interface, of course. The features include an ‘Auto’ edit, where your device does all the work for you. If you enjoy editing, you can play around with the contrast, brightness, sharpness, highlights, shadows, saturation and more.

- Open you Photos app.There’s no need to upload your pic to any photo editing apps, as all the tools you need are on your phone!

How to access iOS 13’s new photo editing tools

- Tap the photo you want to edit, then tap “Edit” on the top right corner

How to access iOS 13’s new photo editing tools

At the bottom, you will see editing icons including exposure, brightness, warmth and more. Each term means something in the world of photography. We’re going to break it down for you below.

How to access iOS 13’s new photo editing tools

- Tap “Done” when you are finished editing

How to access iOS 13’s new photo editing tools

Warmth: This tool uplifts colours toward a more Summery look and feel, with more orange, yellow, blue and green tones being highlighted.
Brightness: This tool lifts the brightness of the photo overall

Highlights: Different to brightness, this tool brightens the already lighter parts of the photo and darkens the more shadowy parts of the photo simultaneously.
Brilliance: This feature combines clearing up detail like texture and lifts brightness.
Saturation: Unique to warmth, saturation can lift the colour as well as dull it depending on if you slide it up or down.
Vibrance: This feature boosts colour intensity.
Sharpness: The sharpness tool adds a little more professionalism to your photos. It adds more definition to facial features, hair strands, texture like leaves on a tree.
Noise Reduction: If you took a photo in low light, smartphone photos often have a bit of fuzziness to it. This tool reduces that problem.
Shadows: This tool adds more mood to the photo by darkening the shadows in the photo.

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