Discover the Photos app’s digital darkroom tools
Get your photos and clips looking their best
After shooting a photo or capturing a clip, you may need to tweak its color, tone and even composition. Fortunately, iOS 16’s Photos app boasts a powerful digital darkroom to counteract common problems. It can also process footage using the same tools, helping your clips to make the grade. 1 TINTS AND CASTS
Capturing true colors can be a challenge due to the different color temperatures of light. Daylight can cause a shot to look too cold and blue, and artificial light can make some skin tones look too warm and orange. Your Camera app performs an Auto White Balance (AWB) operation to capture cast–free colors. If it can get white objects to be free of blue or orange casts, then the rest of the image will have cast–free colors too.
If your shots still suffer from color casts, you can counteract these in your iPhone’s Photos app. Tap Edit, then tap the Adjust icon and swipe to the Warmth slider. Drag the slider left to warm up a cold, blue shot, or right to cool down a warm, orange cast. You can also remove green or magenta color tints using the Tint slider; drag this left to counteract a green tint or right to reduce magenta. 2 TONAL TWEAKS
In contrasting light, your iPhone may struggle to capture both shadow and highlight detail. The Adjust panel’s Shadows slider enables you to lighten underexposed shadows without overexposing highlights; the Highlights slider can then claw back sky detail without underexposing a darker landscape.
If you shoot a tall building from a low angle its vertical walls appear to
Tapping the Mono filter removes distracting color information so you can emphasize contrasting shapes and tones. converge inwards towards the top of the frame. This phenomenon is called perspectival distortion. If you use the Ultra Wide camera then you’ll want to embrace this perspectival distortion as a feature of wide–angle photography. However, when using other lenses you can process the picture to make the walls of a building run parallel with the side edges of the frame. Tap Edit then tap the Crop icon. Tap the Vertical correction icon. Drag the slider right to reduce vertical perspectival distortion. 4 FABULOUS FILTERS
The Camera app’s Filter icon lets you quickly grade a photo or clip’s colors and tones to produce a wide range of looks in seconds. Nine thumbnails act as springboards to create striking effects such as Vivid Warm or Dramatic Cool. You can also produce high–contrast mono effects such as Silvertone. The strength of each filter can be dialed down for more subtle looks if desired.