It makes sense since the now stronger sunray should also brighten the foreground. You can use the Selective Tool again to brighten up part of the foreground.
We have increased the glow of the sunray and brightened up the reflection of the sea. Once you have done the multiple pasting, click the Tick to apply the changes.
You can continue to tap other areas to paste the same effect at multiple areas. You are now copying the same effect of the first area to the new area. Then tap again on another area of your choice that you want to have the same effect as the first area, the ‘Paste’ icon will appear. If you tap again on where you’re working, it will reveal a ‘Copy and paste icon.’ Slide down to adjust the contrast and the saturation. Zoom in to the part of the sea that you want to brighten up, and slide to the right to increase the brightness. Open up the Selective Tool once more, and this time tap on the reflection of the sea. Next, click the Tick button to apply the changes.īrighten the reflection with Selective Tool (use the copy and paste function)īesides the sunray, You can also improve the image by brightening up the sea’s reflection with the Selective Tool. Now the brightness is only applied to the area that is near to the sunray. I’m not going to change these settings right now.Īdjust the size of the area that I want to apply the brightness by using two fingers to zoom into the chosen area. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and structure with the same method. Slide to the right to increase the brightness. Zoom in and tap the area near the sunray. Now let’s move on to open up another tool called Selective Tool to brighten up the sunray. Increase the glow of the sunray with the Selective tool Now zoom in and draw on the area that you want to apply the glow effect.Ĭlick the Tick icon to confirm and the Arrow at the left top corner to exit Glamour Glow. To do this, click Edit Stack, followed by View Edits, and then Glamour Glow.Ĭlick the center icon to start editing the image. I intend to only apply the glow effect to the sea and sun and exclude the greeneries. However, the glow effect is now applied to the whole image. I’m satisfied with the result of this preset, so I proceed to click the Tick button to apply the changes. If you click the left-right arrow button, it will reveal each setting within this preset. So I click the Style icon, go back to the previous menu, and then choose preset number three. In this case, I feel that one of the presets is good enough. Over here, you can adjust the saturation or warmth by sliding it to the left and right. You can pick any preset or click the icon with the arrow to the left and right to reveal the preset’s setting. Each preset has a predetermined selection of glow effects.
That will bring you to the following menu that shows you five presets. Once you get there, click the pencil icon and then choose Glamour Glow. Let’s open up the picture you want to edit with Snapseed. Use the Curves tool to make the grass greener.Use the Selective Tool to select the area you want to apply the saturation, contrast, and more.Use the Glamour Tool in Snapseed to increase the intensity of the sunray and make the foreground pop.
If you are new to Snapseed, it is a free app to edit your photos with your mobile, which has far more features available in most of the native photo editors of the mobile phone.
This article will explain how to use the glamour glow tool in Snapseed to edit a landscape photograph.