The Evolution of Photo Editing: How iOS 13's Photos App Has Changed the Game

For years, iPhone users have been reliant on third-party photo editing apps to take their photos from good to great. With the release of iOS 13, Apple has taken note from these apps and enhanced their own Photos app, providing users with a more compelling and useful editing experience. This shift marks a significant change in the way we edit our photos, making it easier for amateur photographers and professionals alike to achieve professional-looking results.

Prior to iOS 13, the Photos app was able to do some basic editing tasks such as cropping or adjusting brightness and contrast. While these features were a good starting point, they often didn't quite get the job done. With iOS 13, Apple has significantly upgraded the editing experience, adding new features that allow for more precise control over our photos.

One of the most significant additions to the Photos app is its ability to adjust sharpness and apply noise reduction. These features may seem small, but they can make a dramatic difference in how our images turn out. For example, adjusting the sharpness can help bring out details in an image that were previously lost, while applying noise reduction can eliminate unwanted grain or texture from the photo. Additionally, Apple has introduced new adjustments such as warmth or tint, which allow users to fine-tune the overall aesthetic of their photos.

The crop menu has also been revamped with iOS 13, providing users with more advanced features and options. Previously, the crop menu offered only a few pre-selected aspect ratios, but now it includes an auto-crop feature that can accurately identify and crop subjects from images. This feature is particularly useful for landscapes or portraits, where the subject may be off-center or partially obscured by other elements in the frame. Furthermore, users can now adjust the skew of an image to fine-tune its perspective and make it more accurate.

Perhaps one of the most exciting features of iOS 13's Photos app is its ability to edit video. With previous versions of iOS, rotating a video was a tedious process that required exporting the video out to iMovie, applying the rotation, and then sending it back to the camera roll. This process was often frustrating and time-consuming, especially for those who wanted to quickly share their videos with others.

With iOS 13, Apple has eliminated this hassle by integrating photo editing features directly into the Photos app's video section. Users can now rotate, crop, deskew, or apply color or stylistic effects to their videos as easily as they do to their photos. This means that users can get that exact video look they were looking for without having to export and re-import the footage.

The improvements in iOS 13's Photos app have made it a more powerful tool for both photo and video editing. While it still may not offer every feature that third-party apps like Adobe Lightroom or Facetune provide, it has become a solid first-level editing suite for many users. For those who are new to photo editing or want to make minor tweaks to their photos, iOS 13's Photos app is an excellent place to start.

Ultimately, the updates in iOS 13's Photos app are a welcome change for anyone who takes multiple photos on their iPhone or big camera and wants to enhance them without needing advanced photo editing skills. If you're one of these users, now may be a great time to give the Photos app a try. With its new features and user-friendly interface, it's an excellent tool for making minor adjustments and creating professional-looking results.

For those who are already familiar with third-party apps, we invite you to try out the Photos app and see how far it can take your photo editing skills. If you're using a third-party app that you prefer, please let us know in the comments below why. We'd love to hear about your favorite features and tools. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit that Bell icon so you get notified about any new videos we post.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody Ian's hip recalled of Mac and over the summer we covered a bunch of iOS 13 features that made their debut this fall but there were some that we hadn't touched on yet so to continue looking at those iOS 13 features I thought it would be worth taking a look at the updates to the Photos app and a particular the way that you can edit photos in the Photos app now it's been said a million times over but the best camera is often the one you have with you and for most of us that's our iPhone and if you're like me you take tons and tons of pictures but sometimes they don't turn out quite the way you were expecting them to now that need to edit our photos has birth an entire industry of third-party photo editing apps allowing us to tweak or modify or adjust our photos just a little bit to get them to our liking now with iOS 13 Apple has taken a note from those third-party apps and enhance their Photos app in the editing experience in the Photos app quite a bit to make it far more compelling and useful to edit your photos as long as you know what you're looking for now for the last few years the Photos app has been able to do some really basic editing like cropping or adjusting the brightness or contrast to kind of improve your pictures a little bit but with iOS 13 Apple's really turned up the dial and giving you a lot more features to make your pictures look that much better now than the Photos app you still get all those same basics you had before but with some new additions things like adjusting the sharpness applying noise reduction adjusting the warmth or tint of an image may seem like small things but they can make a dramatic difference in how your images turn out and how your pictures look when you post them to Instagram or have them printed on a fracture on top of that there's also some new features in the crop menu now previously the crop menu was basically the ability to freeform crop adjust the rotation of an image or apply a handful of pre-selected aspect ratios now on iOS 13 the auto crop feature will do its best to actually crop an image and straighten an image while maintaining that important subject of the image and you can also now adjust the skew of an image so if it's a little bit off side to side or top to bottom you can actually tweak it to make things more accurate to the perspective you were trying to achieve when you took the picture which can be really helpful especially with the ultra wide lens on the iPhone 11pro another huge benefit to photos and iOS 13 is the way you can actually now edit video now in older iOS versions to do something as simple as rotating a video that you accidentally took in portrait mode to be in landscape the way that the camera and video gods intended you had to export the video out to iMovie apply the rotation and then send it back to your camera roll and iOS 13 you no longer have to do that in fact Apple has extended almost every photo editing feature to the video section of iOS 13's photo app this means you can now rotate crop deskew or apply color or stylistic effects to your videos as well as your photos meaning that you can get that exact video look that you were looking for and this makes photos incredibly powerful for both photo and video editing something that you couldn't do before without a third-party app like iMovie luma fusion or even apples clips app now for amateur photographers or even professionals and a lot of situations the Photos app in iOS 13 is good enough that it can actually be a really solid first level or even full editing suite depending on what it is you're looking for but it doesn't have every feature you might need in a photo editing app leaving a market still for those third-party apps Adobe's Lightroom for example lets you do pixel by pixel adjustments to color or style and an image both touch retouch or facetune allow you to do things like remove objects or blemishes in an image things you just can't do in the Photos app at the same time on the video side of things you still can't actually create a movie in the Photos app you still rely on an app like iMovie or clips or luma fusion to go through and actually build out your videos now ultimately the updates of the Photos app are really really solid and a welcome change they make it accessible for people to learn how to edit their photos and make adjustments without needing a master class and photo editing now if you're the type of person takes a ton of photos either on your phone or with your big camera that you then send those photos to your phone and then you've been relying on a third-party app to edit your photos it might be time to give the Photos app a shot especially for making those minor tweaks or minor adjustments just to post a picture to Instagram or share it with your family let me don't you guys think in the comments down below you should give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed and if you're using the Photos app if you have a third party photo app that you prefer for whatever reason on the comments down below I love trying photo apps they're one of my favorite things to play with on iOS also be sure you're subscribed to the channel and hit that Bell icon so you get notified about any videos we post I mean for Colton Beck I'll catch you guys in the next onewhat's going on everybody Ian's hip recalled of Mac and over the summer we covered a bunch of iOS 13 features that made their debut this fall but there were some that we hadn't touched on yet so to continue looking at those iOS 13 features I thought it would be worth taking a look at the updates to the Photos app and a particular the way that you can edit photos in the Photos app now it's been said a million times over but the best camera is often the one you have with you and for most of us that's our iPhone and if you're like me you take tons and tons of pictures but sometimes they don't turn out quite the way you were expecting them to now that need to edit our photos has birth an entire industry of third-party photo editing apps allowing us to tweak or modify or adjust our photos just a little bit to get them to our liking now with iOS 13 Apple has taken a note from those third-party apps and enhance their Photos app in the editing experience in the Photos app quite a bit to make it far more compelling and useful to edit your photos as long as you know what you're looking for now for the last few years the Photos app has been able to do some really basic editing like cropping or adjusting the brightness or contrast to kind of improve your pictures a little bit but with iOS 13 Apple's really turned up the dial and giving you a lot more features to make your pictures look that much better now than the Photos app you still get all those same basics you had before but with some new additions things like adjusting the sharpness applying noise reduction adjusting the warmth or tint of an image may seem like small things but they can make a dramatic difference in how your images turn out and how your pictures look when you post them to Instagram or have them printed on a fracture on top of that there's also some new features in the crop menu now previously the crop menu was basically the ability to freeform crop adjust the rotation of an image or apply a handful of pre-selected aspect ratios now on iOS 13 the auto crop feature will do its best to actually crop an image and straighten an image while maintaining that important subject of the image and you can also now adjust the skew of an image so if it's a little bit off side to side or top to bottom you can actually tweak it to make things more accurate to the perspective you were trying to achieve when you took the picture which can be really helpful especially with the ultra wide lens on the iPhone 11pro another huge benefit to photos and iOS 13 is the way you can actually now edit video now in older iOS versions to do something as simple as rotating a video that you accidentally took in portrait mode to be in landscape the way that the camera and video gods intended you had to export the video out to iMovie apply the rotation and then send it back to your camera roll and iOS 13 you no longer have to do that in fact Apple has extended almost every photo editing feature to the video section of iOS 13's photo app this means you can now rotate crop deskew or apply color or stylistic effects to your videos as well as your photos meaning that you can get that exact video look that you were looking for and this makes photos incredibly powerful for both photo and video editing something that you couldn't do before without a third-party app like iMovie luma fusion or even apples clips app now for amateur photographers or even professionals and a lot of situations the Photos app in iOS 13 is good enough that it can actually be a really solid first level or even full editing suite depending on what it is you're looking for but it doesn't have every feature you might need in a photo editing app leaving a market still for those third-party apps Adobe's Lightroom for example lets you do pixel by pixel adjustments to color or style and an image both touch retouch or facetune allow you to do things like remove objects or blemishes in an image things you just can't do in the Photos app at the same time on the video side of things you still can't actually create a movie in the Photos app you still rely on an app like iMovie or clips or luma fusion to go through and actually build out your videos now ultimately the updates of the Photos app are really really solid and a welcome change they make it accessible for people to learn how to edit their photos and make adjustments without needing a master class and photo editing now if you're the type of person takes a ton of photos either on your phone or with your big camera that you then send those photos to your phone and then you've been relying on a third-party app to edit your photos it might be time to give the Photos app a shot especially for making those minor tweaks or minor adjustments just to post a picture to Instagram or share it with your family let me don't you guys think in the comments down below you should give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed and if you're using the Photos app if you have a third party photo app that you prefer for whatever reason on the comments down below I love trying photo apps they're one of my favorite things to play with on iOS also be sure you're subscribed to the channel and hit that Bell icon so you get notified about any videos we post I mean for Colton Beck I'll catch you guys in the next one\n"