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Creating quick effects with Snapseed - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Nik: Creative Effects
Creating quick effects with Snapseed
Nik Softwares stand alone application, Snapseed, which is a desktop version of the app for the iPhone and iPad, can be a lot of fun to play with. If you're using Aperture, you can set up Snapseed as your external editor. So, to access it, you only have to choose Edit with Snapseed. If you're not using Aperture, simply open the application, and from within the application's Open dialog, open the file that you want to work with. Snapseed let's you do all kinds of things, including Basic Image Tuning, where you can adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and so on. But for this example, what we want to play with are some of the creative adjustments. There's lots of different things in here that you can go through. But some of my favorites are Grunge, and Vintage, and Frames. Let's start with Vintage. Vintage allows you to very easily add this kind of faded, old world look to your images. As you can see up here at the top left, I'm clicking through a variety of Presets. But…
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Making white backgrounds truly white with Viveza6m 35s
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Creating vintage color looks in Color Efex Pro13m 35s
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Adding vintage black-and-white looks in Silver Efex Pro18m 1s
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Non-HDR compositing in HDR Efex Pro5m 2s
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Avoiding frame clipping2m 47s
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Deconstructing presets5m 30s
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Using the zone system in Silver Efex Pro8m 45s
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Creating beautiful skin in Color Efex Pro9m 37s
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Using U Points for complete control19m 25s
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Creating recipes in Color Efex Pro4m 50s
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Vignetting5m 54s
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Creating quick effects with Snapseed3m 57s
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