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[English]

Hello!

My hair looks so stupid today, ignore it

Hello

Hi, and welcome to my bed

Today I'm going to be doing a video that you guys have been asking for for a very long time.

Which is, how I edit my Instagram photos. The only problem with this question is

basically every single one of my photos is edited completely differently.

I don't really have like a certain filter that I use or like a specific regimen I use,

it just kind of depends on the photo. I think that's pretty normal for everyone

I figured since so many people wanted to know anyways

I might as well just bring you along with the editing process of a photo, just to kind of show you guys a little things

that I do and there are a few things that I know that I do but differently than most people

and maybe you can pick it up. I don't know. Oh! I need my notes.

That's my wallet, why did I grab my wallet?

This is my phone and these are my notes I wrote all the process down. I have an iPhone X. I know real bougie

It's honestly not that great. I don't know why people act like it's like a marvel of technology

I don't like how good the front-facing camera is because you can see literally all of my pores. Is that necessary? No.

It's never necessary to see all of my pores. Let's go ahead and get into it. Oh. Enter...

Phone the app that I use for all of my photo editing is After Light I always use After Light I have always used

After Light for a very long time. It's like a dollar or two dollars or something

I know that most people use VSCO, but I just I just use After Light

I don't know why. Here's the app, some good photos on there already. Je téléphone à la police.

I think that today we're going to edit a photo that I've already edited in the past before

just to kind of show you guys what the photo looked like before editing and just kind of show you an average

process of editing a photo, nothing like particularly special. Gotta scroll through all these screenshots.

Here is the photo we're going to be using today. I really love this photo of myself

I am not afraid to say that maybe it's a little self-obsessed, but I think I look cute. Fight me.

This is actually a screenshot of a video that I took and you can tell that like the colors are pretty muted

and gray, and I don't like that. I basically go for the exact opposite of that.

First thing I do is lighting, so I click onto this whole area. First, exposure. I really don't like to overexpose photos

I just don't really think it looks that good. The second that you like can't tell the texture of someone's skin

I just don't think it looks good for me. So just like raise the exposure by a tiny bit, don't over expose.

Got a Snapchat, so popular.

Next thing I do is I mess around with the highlights and shadows. Click on highlights,

and I almost always turn the highlights down. What this does is basically takes the highlights from being really dimensional

and kind of flattens them so that the whole image has a very similar brightness level. It basically just flattens the image out

I really like when photos look old and look like they were taken on bad cameras

It's just a thing I like. Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam.

Next thing I always do is raise the shadows this kind of mutes the shadows in a way. I really like that whole muted effect

You know how on some editing apps they have that like fade tool?

This is basically fading the photo

but in a cleaner and more customizable way just in case

I want to like make it have a little bit more contrast or not

I don't want to raise the shadows too much to where you can't even tell like what my hair looks like

or you can't even tell what's in the shadows, but I do like to raise them a bit

Next is the biggest step, which is color. I mess around with color a ton, so much, with all of my photos

I usually start out with highlights

And I almost always add a bit of red into the highlights and you can already tell like how big of a difference that is?

And I basically try to take away a lot of the yellow tones in photos.

I just don't really like that. Basically the mass majority of my editing process is just playing around with colors

So I'll go into mid-tones. Add like a little bit of red into the mid-tones

I really like to add green into the shadows

I think it looks really cool and vintage got a little bit of blue into the highlights

I just mess around like there's not really much of a process to this part

This is the part that really depends on the photo.

Another tool that you can use in order to kind of play around with the color is the

temperature tool which I almost always turn down just a tiny bit

I really like it when the shadows have a more green tone over like a reddish tone. Just keep messing around with the colors

I'm sure that this photo is gonna look super different from the actual original photo

Just cuz I mess around with the color so much. I don't even know, I just don't even know. But in general

I will say I almost always put red in the highlights and blue green in the shadows

That's pretty basic for me. Next thing I almost always do is raise the saturation

I honestly raise the saturation pretty high. I really like super vibrant photos after raising the saturation

I usually go back and mess around with the color a little bit more just so that I make sure I don't have like too

yellowish orangish colors because saturation usually does raise that kind of like orange color a lot

She's really orange right now. I need to, I need to fix this. Big difference, pretty big difference

I think I'm done messing around with the colors now. I think that this looks good

I don't know if it looks exactly like the other photo

But I'm pretty satisfied with this. The very last step in my editing process is blurring.

The first thing I do is add a tiny bit of grain. I don't add too much grain right now

I just add enough to where it lightens the shadows a bit and adds a little bit of texture

And then I go on to the sharpening tool and I turn it down.

So I like to make my photos just a tiny bit blurry

There's a helicopter, you good? Okay.

I like how on disposable cameras, and like on instant cameras the photos are always just like a tiny bit blurry.

and then I

go back in and I add a little bit more grain on top of that so that instead of there

j ust being like one layer of grain that's all sharp and just like, blugh

I like to kind of make it more dimensional by

blurring some of the grain and leaving some of the grain unblurred and like sharp

And that is basically it, that's basically all I do. Here is the original and here's the finished product.

I decided to opt out from doing a what's on my iPhone video, because I don't have anything special on my iPhone

I just have my social media apps, and then After Light, that's it.

I really hope you enjoyed this video if you have any tips that you want to

bless the world with tell them in the comments below

and maybe we can all get a little bit better at photo editing

And if you have any questions at all about my editing process, still completely free to ask me below. With that. I'm going to go

Thank you so much for watching this video. I'll see you in a couple of days with a brand new video.

God bless and good bye!

Music: "The Other Side" by Conan Gray.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
stupid /ˈstuːpɪd/ B1	adjective - lacking intelligence or common sense; foolish.
editing /ˈedɪtɪŋ/ B1	verb - the process of preparing written material for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.
Instagram /ˈɪnstəɡræm/ B1	noun - a social media platform for sharing photos and videos.
completely /kəmˈpliːtli/ B1	adverb - in a complete manner; entirely.
filter /ˈfɪltər/ A2	noun - a device or process that removes or alters something from a mixture.
regimen /ˈredʒɪmən/ C1	noun - a prescribed course of action or diet.
normal /ˈnɔːrməl/ A2	adjective - conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
process /ˈprɒses/ B1	noun - a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
bougie /ˈbuːʒi/ B2	adjective - (slang) aspiring to be a higher class than one is.
technology /tekˈnɒlədʒi/ B1	noun - the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
pores /pɔːrz/ B1	noun - tiny openings in the skin.
necessary /ˈnesəseri/ A2	adjective - required to be done, achieved, or present; needed.
average /ˈævərɪdʒ/ A2	adjective - typical or usual.
obsessed /əbˈses(t)ɪd/ B2	adjective - preoccupied with something.
muted /ˈmjuːtɪd/ B1	adjective - soft and low in volume or intensity.
exposure /ɪkˈspəʊʒə/ B1	noun - the act or process of exposing something to light.
texture /ˈtekstʃə/ B1	noun - the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance.
vibrant /ˈvaɪbrənt/ B2	adjective - full of energy and enthusiasm.

Key Grammar Structures

• Today I'm going to be doing a video that you guys have been asking for for a very long time.

  ➔ Present continuous with future meaning

  ➔ The phrase 'I'm going to be doing' uses the present continuous ('am doing') to indicate a future action planned or arranged.

• I don't really have like a certain filter that I use or like a specific regimen I use,

  ➔ Negative sentences with 'like' as a filler

  ➔ The word 'like' is used here as a filler word, common in informal speech, to emphasize the lack of a specific filter or regimen.

• I might as well just bring you along with the editing process of a photo,

  ➔ Modal verb 'might as well' for suggestion

  ➔ The phrase 'I might as well' is used to suggest an action as the best or most convenient option in a given situation.

• I really don't like to overexpose photos, I just don't really think it looks that good.

  ➔ Use of 'really' for emphasis

  ➔ The word 'really' is used to emphasize the speaker's strong opinion against overexposing photos.

• What this does is basically takes the highlights from being really dimensional and kind of flattens them

  ➔ Use of 'what this does' for explanation

  ➔ The phrase 'what this does' is used to introduce an explanation of the effect of an action or process.

• I usually start out with highlights and I almost always add a bit of red into the highlights

  ➔ Use of 'usually' and 'almost always' for frequency

  ➔ The adverbs 'usually' and 'almost always' are used to indicate the frequency of the actions described.

• I just mess around like there's not really much of a process to this part

  ➔ Use of 'like' for comparison or approximation

  ➔ The word 'like' is used here to introduce a comparison or approximation, indicating that there is no strict process.

• I think that this looks good, I don't know if it looks exactly like the other photo

  ➔ Use of 'that' in reported speech

  ➔ The word 'that' is used to introduce the content of the thought or opinion being expressed.

• And that is basically it, that's basically all I do.

  ➔ Use of 'basically' for emphasis or summary

  ➔ The word 'basically' is used to emphasize that the explanation or summary is the main point or essence of the matter.