Making a Picture Awesome
You can easily touch up a video to make it took better.
Check out this picture I took on my iPhone XS Max:
Looks pretty cool.
The thing is, it didn't start that way. This picture is actually a clip from a 4K video. I extracted a scene then touched up the image - all on my iPhone XS Max - in less than 3-minutes.
Checkout the Original Video
Here's the original video on YouTube:
You can see the image in the YouTube preview. It looks dark and boring.
Steps to Create the Image
Here's how I got it to work:
- I took a 4K (30fps) video using ProCamera. ( I could have used Apple's Camera app, but was playing around with 4k features in ProCamera.)
- After the video completed, I open the video using the ProCam app and edited it. I then scrolled around looking for the best scene and extracted the clip out.
- I opened up Camera Plus 2 editor and selected the image. I selected the Lab category and the Clarify Pro option.
- I then played around with the Intensity and Vibrancy Boost until It looked good.
Some Notes
- You don't need to have ProCamera, ProCam and Camera Plus 2 to make this work. They all have excellent image editing functionality.
- The only 'must-have' app is ProCam, which I used to extract the clip from the video. The other apps don't have the ability to clip a scene from a video file.
- ProCam Color enhancing is powerful but maybe intimidating for some users. Camera Plus 2 has some nice predefined filters to help get this to work.
What I learned
I learned that I can extract any image from a video and touch it up to look awesome. It was really easy to do It also gives me more flexibility to decide what is the perfect shot for the situation.