I have realised this year, that blog photography is really important and I can't just take them quickly. The photos are almost as important as the writing! However, I like editing them so that they are as bright as possible. I wanted to share with you how I usually do this! 

Uploading the photos 

I usually take my blog photos on my phone and then download them from Google Photos online and save them into my folder on my laptop. From there, I go on PicMonkey, to edit them. Picmonkey, is an website that is free to use for most of there features. You can "Touch-up" , "Design", "Collage" or "Edit" which is what I click on.  I then upload the photo. 

Editing

From there, I normally press the auto-adjust button. Sometimes however, I don't like how this looks so I edit it myself. Firstly I go to the exposure bar and turn up the brightness and the contrast so that my pictures are more bright and clear. However sometimes by turning the brightness I lose the colour so next I go to Colours and make the saturation a tiny but higher. This is just because my phone camera doesn't always show up the true colours that well.

Cropping and resizing

The last step I take is cropping and resizing my photos. All my photos on my blog are cropped to 3:5. This makes them quite wide without being super duper long which I like. I also resize my pictures to roughly 700px high x 420 pixels wide as I set all my photos to be the width of my content area using CSS (would you like a tutorial?) If they are tiny then they go pixelated!

This is the after picture and the only difference is that it is brighter and has a tiny bit more colour. I try not to change the things too much because want to portray it as accurately as possible. I don't often take pictures of makeup products but if I did, I would follow the same "rules".

I hope you enjoyed this post and please let me know some blog posts you like to read and want me to write!

Lots of Love

Laura xx

As I did mine on my social media items, this is what I will write for. However, you can do it for any image by adding the following code to the HTML of the image. 

Create or find an image
For this tutorial you will need two versions of the same image that are slightly different, they could be a different colour like mine. I found my social media items on a website(which I couldn't find the link for, sorry, but there are loads out there), and I downloaded them. On publisher, I uploaded the photos and then changed the colour and saved them to my laptop.