Tips & Tricks

How to Edit Travel Photos Using Snapseed

Unfortunately most of the cool stuff you see with your eyes, doesn’t always get captured by your camera, UNLESS you know how to properly edit travel photos. Oh, and by “properly”, I mean “easily adjust a few things on a basic photo editing app”, so don’t worry if you have absolutely no idea where to even start with editing.

Since a lot of people ask how I edit my travel photos, I decided to finally make a quick tutorial showing the typical process I do using a free phone app called Snapseed (no this post isn’t sponsored by them, yes I think it should be) .

Snapseed was actually recommended to me by a real photographer, and I’ve had lots of fun tweaking the settings and filters to create my own hybrid of semi-professional, semi-looks-like-a-fairytale type photos.

So if you’re interested in learning how to edit travel photos in an extremely quick and easy way, please take 6 minutes to watch the video that I made for you. I sacrificed lots of awkward moments trying to film myself holding a phone up backwards, so you better show me some awesomely edited travel photos!!

Here’s the Video Tutorial:

Below is also a screenshot recap:

1. Open Your Travel Photo in Snapseed

2. Select “Tune Image”

3. Adjust Brightness

4. Slightly Adjust Contrast

5. Increase Saturation

6. Add HDR (But Don’t Over Do It!)

7. Adjust Structure and Sharpening

8. Save a Copy!

Voila!

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Alyssa Ramos

Alyssa Ramos of @MyLifesATravelMovie is one of the original Solo Female Travel Blogger/influencers for 11+ years! She's been to 140+ Countries, all 7 Continents, 7 World Wonders, 7 Wonders of Nature, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Everest Basecamp! Alyssa is also the original creator of Influencer-Hosted Group Trips, and hosts 4-5 adventures per year to unique, remote, and stereotypical "dangerous" places. Tap the Group Trips tab to learn more! After being fully nomadic for 8 years, she now owns an apartment in Tulum and lives part time in Italy with her fiance.

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