IN THIS CHAPTER

Using Markup to add notes to your photos

Adding your signature to a photo

Creating a Live Photo

Choosing the Loop Photo option

Activating the Bounce Photo

Mimicking Long Exposures

In this chapter, you find a lot more tools for your photo and editing tool belt. Markup is a collection of tools to help add extra information to your images, and Live Photo is a great way to create animated photos that are fun to share.

Adding Notes and Text Using Markup

The Markup tool is a nondestructive editing function that allows you to add text, doodles, and lines to your photos. Nondestructive means that you can always delete the Markup additions later on, returning to your original photo. While you may not feel the immediate need to use Markup, the uses are endless. Markup is perfect for any industry that uses photographs to explain a situation.

Say that you took a location-scouting photo of an exterior as a reminder to come back when the light was more dramatic. You can create markup text and doodles as a reminder for the return photo shoot later in the day.

You can always delete your Markups, which means that you’re not permanently damaging any of your marked-up photos.

To add Markup notes to one of your photos, try out these steps:

1. With your chosen photo open, tap Edit.
2. Tap on the little circular icon with three dots at the top right of your vertical screen.
3. Tap on Markup.
4. Choose one of the markers to create your doodle.
5. Tap on the plus sign (+) to access your text editor.
6. Add any text with any color, anywhere within your photo.
7. Press Done at the top right when you’re finished editing.

Adding Your Signature to Your Photos

While it’s true that other third-party apps do a better job at adding signatures to your photos, the built-in signatures tool within Markup will do just fine if you’re in a rush. To add your signature within the Markup section, follow these steps.

1. Tap on the plus (+) sign to reveal the Signature tool.
2. Tap on the word Signature.
3. At the bottom of your screen, sign your name with your finger or touch pen.
4. Tap Clear to try creating your signature again if you didn’t like it.
5. Tap Done when you’re happy with the look of your signature.
6. Position and resize your signature to appear anywhere within your photo.
7. Change the color of your signature by tapping the black circle at the bottom of your screen.
8. Press Done to exit.
9. With your signature included, feel free to create further photo edits.
10. If you don’t want to do any further edits, tap Done.

Adding Extra Markup Options to Your Photo

The Markup section of your Photos app has a few more tools that you may find useful. For example, you can use the Magnifier tool to magnify any section of your photo for greater clarity. You can also add rectangles, circles, and comic speech bubbles to your photos.

The Markup toolbox is full-featured and ready to help you communicate ideas to your clients, your boss, your friends, or even as a reminder to yourself. Try adding all the Markup tools to a single photo to get used to how they work.

Deleting Your Markups to Return to Your Original Photo

If you didn’t duplicate your photo for the sake of adding your Markups, then follow these steps to remove your Markups from your original photo:

1. Open your Markup photo and tap Edit at the top right.
2. Tap Revert at the bottom right to delete your Markups and any photo edits.

To retain your photo edits but only delete your Markups:

1. Tap the gray circle with three dots at the top right.
2. Tap Markup.
3. Tap on any of your Markups and choose Delete.
4. Repeat this process until each Markup is deleted and then tap Done.

Creating and Editing a Live Photo

Apple’s Live Photo option is a great tool for photographers who are dealing with fast moving subjects. After a Live Photo is taken, you can then choose the best of a bunch of photos. Think of Live Photo as similar to Burst mode but with the added feature of being able to export the Live Photo as a motion GIF, popular with social media uploaders.

See Chapter 2 for information on creating a Live Photo. The following instructions walk you through choosing the most important image, called a key photo:

1. Tap the circular Live Photo icon at the bottom left, next to the word Cancel.
2. Tap on any frame to Make Key Photo, which means the best-looking photo in your opinion.
3. Tap the words Make Key Photo to accept your choice of the best-looking image.
4. Tap Done to accept your choice and view your newly altered Live Photo.

Creating a Loop Photo

A Loop Photo alters your Live Photo to create a short video clip of your animation being show as a continuous loop. Social media savvy uploaders use these loops (called GIF) to add humor to their social posts.

To create a Loop Photo, follow these steps.

1. Open your Live Photo in the normal iOS Photos app.
2. Tap anywhere within your photo and, with your finger, quickly scroll in an upward direction.

3. Tap Loop instead of the default Live.

   Loop is then activated. You then see a repeating Loop video of your moving object.

Creating a Bounce Photo

A Bounce Photo is similar to a Loop Photo, except that your moving object will first go forward (as normal), but then go backward. In a continuous looped fashion, the moving object keeps going forward, then backward, and then forward again.

Follow these steps to create your Bounce Photo:

1. Open your Live Photo in the normal iOS Photos app.
2. Tap anywhere within your photo and, with your finger, quickly scroll in an upward direction.

3. Tap Bounce, instead of Live or Loop.

   Bounce is then activated. You then see a repeating loop video of your moving object going forward, backward, and then forward again without stopping.

Exporting Your Live, Loop, and Bounce Photos

If you want to export your Live, Loop, or Bounce photos for email or social media uploading, simply press the up-arrow Share icon that is always visible under or over every photo within your iOS Photos app. When you tap it, you have the ability to choose any photo-sharing option that you like.

Here are some technical points to keep in mind when sharing your Live, Loop, and Bounce photos:

• If you email your Live Photo, it will be sent only as a single still photo.
• If you email your Loop or Bounce photo, it will be sent as an animated (motion) GIF file.

Creating a Long Exposure Photo

In Chapter 14, you can see what cool effects you can get with the Slow Shutter Cam app. If your iPhone can create a Live Photo, it can also create a simulated slow shutter photo. This means that the moving subject that was in your Live Photo will be transformed into a streak of light and color.

In the same way as you activated your Loop and Bounce Photos, with your finger, flip upward to reveal your Live Photo Effects options. Instead of tapping on Bounce, tap on the last remaining effect called Long Exposure. You then see the newly created blur effect. Practice this technique with moving cars at dusk within a city environment.

Creating Abstract Photos Using Long Exposure

In this tenth of ten extra tips, you discover an easy way to create frame-worthy wall art. To create an abstract Long Exposure photo, try out these steps:

1. Find a colorful object to photograph.
2. Start rotating your iPhone in a clockwise fashion.

3. After two seconds of rotation, tap the shutter button to take the Live Photo.

   Don’t stop rotating your iPhone! Keep rotating it for a few more seconds.

   When you are done with your rotation, you see a normal Live Photo.

4. With your finger, tap, hold, and flick upward on the photo and then choose Long Exposure.

   Your abstract photo is created.

5. Tap Edit to jazz up the colors of your Long Exposure.

   Try taking the Black Point editing option to 100 percent for more drama.

6. When you’re done editing the colors, tap Done to complete your newly created abstract photo.