Hi Chris,
Sure, with pleasure.
I went and looked over the images and grinned, as when I put up the first 3, I didn't even have After Focus Pro on the phone. Ha, such a newbie to Samsung!
Edit process
Snapseed
- Straighten
- Crop to Square format.
- Check it in Black and White - often don't like it at this point - but I do hang around and play with the contrast for a moment - gives me an idea later of what I can try and pull out of the image.
- Details / Structure.
- NB - at this point there's usually quite a bit of to'ing and fro'ing between Tune Image and Details / Structure as I try to find the right balance tinkering around with Ambience and Shadows. I can't offer any settings ideas on this as it so often depends on how much light I had in the original image... I can say that I like to start Ambience around 50 and Shadows around 20 and I get wary going over that because a heavily cropped image can look grainy / messy very quickly.
- now into Black and White - if I use the Contrast filter (I always seem draw to it as the prefered default start point), I usually move it down to about 15 on Contrast - the default 30 is 90% of the time way too much for me.
- Centre Focus - usually Portrait One but again, I halve the 'Inner Brightness' setting 9/10 times - with the aim of (mostly) discreetly hi-lighting the story / where I want the eye to settle.
- Save
Pixlr Express.
- 9/10 times and I think in the case of all the images on this thread where Pixlr Express has been used, I've only used
- Borders - Ink folder and then partial to the 'Black--' range, often turned down to about 50% and rotated if the grungy look gets in the way of the subject.
- Text to add a watermark, if posting to Facebook etc
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