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Want Better iPhone Photos? Try These 2 Expert-Approved Tips For High-Quality Pictures

November 13, 2024 by Lisa Cupido
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Even if you lack any photo-taking skills whatsoever, the iPhone makes it easy to snap decent-looking pictures that provide a good balance between light and dark and offer ways of centering your subject and creating depth and contrast. Unless you are pointing your camera at your feet, it’s very difficult to take a monstrously bad photo with your phone, and the more modern your phone model is, the more advanced its camera technology has become. For many people, the iPhone is a perfect replacement for a bulkier professional camera.

But there are simple ways that you can take even better, more beautiful, and more artsy photos using your phone.

If you want better photos from your iPhone, one tech expert offers simple and reliable tips that will make a big difference in the quality of your images.

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Shoot Photos in Portrait Mode


The next time you open your camera app to take a photo of your best friend or a group of people standing in front of a landmark, switch from Photo to Portrait mode and adjust your lighting preferences so that you are taking photos in “Natural light.” Now swap “1X” for “2X” and slide the “f” icon all the way down to 1.4. Making these quick changes creates a crisper, more focused, and vibrant photo of your subjects.

 


But you’re not finished yet — don’t ignore all of the possibilities available to you via Edits.

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Edit Photos

 


After you’ve snapped your photo, go into the Photos file and choose the picture you just shot. Edit it in the following ways: change natural lighting to studio lighting, change the brilliance and “pump it up,” and then go to contrast and “pump” that up, as well. Head to vibrance and increase that to make everything more saturated except for your skin shade. Lastly, go to Vignette and bring that up a bit so that the edges get a little bit darker.

 


With these few adjustments and additions you can create an amazing, professional-looking photo using your iPhone.

Author:

Lisa Fogarty is a lifestyle writer and reporter based in New York who covers health, wellness, relationships, sex, beauty, and parenting.

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