10 Best Practices for Photo Editing - A Beginner's Guide

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If you follow our few simple editing tips, you’ll be able to really impress your audience and look like the professional that you know you are.

It’s possible you can get away with less editing if they’re from the same photographer and fit in well with your brand (you don’t need to worry much about adjusting size or cropping.) But if you’re uploading your own photos, don’t skip the picture editing step.

Why is photo editing so important for entrepreneurs?
If you take the time to learn photo editing, this guarantees that your images are all top quality, and gives you the opportunity to create a clear style on your website by consistently using the same filters, lighting, or adding your logo to the picture.

What is the best software to edit on?
There are two main ways to get the results you’re looking for, desktop or mobile. If you’re detail-oriented and your photos are a bit more complex, a desktop editor might be the way to go. However, like most entrepreneurs you’re likely always on the go.

Here are a few mobile apps to use, all available for both iOS and Android:

1) Your mobile device’s built-in image editing tools — It comes with your phone and it couldn’t be any easier to use.

2) Over — Not only can also edit your photos with this one, but it will bring your message to life simply, and beautifully with all of their design elements

3) Adobe Lightroom CC. Most people don’t realize that you can use this app for free! You don’t need a paid Lightroom subscription to use it. Adobe Lightroom Desktop version is included with an Adobe Photoshop subscription so if you want to get the whole package, it’s not that expensive.

Photoshop alternatives for desktop image editing:
Here are some affordable Photoshop alternatives for even more photo editing tools.

Canva
PicMonkey
Pixlr
GIMP

Your editing job is so much easier when you’re working with great source photos. It’s worth a few extra steps. So let’s start with the pre-steps.

Use the right lighting - It doesn’t matter if it’s fancy or plain, use what you have available and you’ll be off to a great start.

Limit distractions - Before you take a photo you want to do a quick scan of the area around your subject.

Use a tripod - If you don’t have a tripod, set your camera on a stool or a desk — anywhere solid and steady. Just don’t hold it in your hand.

Check rotation - Make sure rotation and perspective look good. Sometimes after you look at a photo you realize that everything is tilted.

Crop your photo - You might have a particular ratio of width to height (like 5:4 for instance) that you need your final image to be, so you can crop it accordingly. Or just crop it so the arrangement in your picture looks nice and nothing important is out of view.

Size your image - Make sure your image size is right for your platform. Social media platforms require different sized photos to appear correctly.

Fix darks and lights - You might want shadows eliminated so everything is very bright and white or you might want to play them up.

Adjust the color tone/color cast - Often your photo might be too yellow or too blue so you have to adjust the colors to make it look more natural and true to real life.

Adjust color saturation - Saturation is about how much of the color is in the image. You can even reduce a photo to black and white if you turn your saturation dial to zero.

Cleanup - Cover-up any blemishes in your shot, like spots or dust that might have been on your lens when you shot the picture.

If you want to get really serious with picture editing or edit multiple images at once, it’s best to invest in a paid tool likePhotoShop or a Pro version of @Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

But it’s 100-percent OK if you need to do this on the cheap for now. As long as you’re editing your photos, you’re off to a great start.

So what do you think? Did these picture editing tips help you? I hope you can see that the key to great images isn’t a deep, dark secret. It just comes down to figuring out what edits your photos need and being consistent about it.

Stop hesitating and just dive in, because learning comes from experience.

Pretty soon all your entrepreneur friends will be coming to you asking, “How do I edit photos?” and you can impress them with your newfound image editing knowledge. Have fun sprucing up your site with your gorgeous new images!

The Journey is what everyday entrepreneurs, like you, need to follow in the pursuit of online success. Our experienced GoDaddy Guides are here to take you through all the steps, both big and small, that you encounter every day.

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