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#VSCO EDITS FULL#
Very rarely, by which I mean never, do I use a tool or filter to its full effect. Or if the photo looks too shiny and perfect I will add a bit of grain and/or fade. So to compensate for desaturation I will up the contrast, clarity and sharpness. I like my photos desaturated but with enough contrast to look interesting. Make the big decisions – super colourful & saturated or desaturate & faded, light & breezy or dark & moody – then start to figure out the steps to take you there. So without further ado (apologies for this essay-length introduction!) here are my top 3 tips for editing with VSCO:īy which I mean in order to produce images that have coherency with one another and hang together well and create you own personal style, settle on the way you like to edit. With help from the VSCO tech team (thank you Kyle!) I managed to alleviate the speed problems – basically the app needs quite a lot of memory to work well – and I battled on through. Fast forward to home and a brand new working iPhone 6 with VSCO working a dream and my love affair well and truly cemented echoing that age old adage that you often don’t know how much you love/need/rely on something until it’s gone. Until I’d tried about four, hated the interfaces and processes and was failing miserably to get the results I wanted. Quite quickly I looked around for some alternative apps that I could edit with. Not great when travelling with child and jetlag and having a certain amount of social to produce per day. My productivity for social was agonising, slow and painful. It kept crashing and freezing mid-edit and saving working was taking minutes as oppose to seconds.
#VSCO EDITS UPDATE#
Now whether it was the coincidental update or just small memory of my iPad, the updated VSCO app barely worked.
#VSCO EDITS CRACKED#
So in an absolute headmess, I left for the Maldives with no super fast 128GB iPhone 6 but instead my old 16GB cracked screen mini iPad on which to do all my photo editing and social for the next week. (Yes, I may have stayed up til 4am the night before our flight trying to fix it, sob). Which worked out fine until I discovered that evening the replacement was faulty and practically cried as it crashed and gave up the ghost stuck in a hideous Apple logo going nowhere re-boot loop. Luckily I have full insurance and managed at great pains (with no wifi or phone reception or phone!) to arrange for a replacement to arrive on our turnaround day in London before heading to the Maldives. In Applecross two weekends ago I dropped my iPhone for the nth time, the impact first cracking the screen and then killing the actual functionality. The recent update – which again has upset some with its now non-grid editing space, but not others including a couple of my fave big Instagrammers and big VSCO users – bizarrely coincided with a personal phone disaster. Which paid off as my photos have been occasionally selected for VSCO and VSCO Selects (where they appear in the main VSCO feed) which is a fantastic feeling! But I totally got it (why should VSCO just be a support platform for Instagram?) and instead embraced the published page in its new one non-square photo at a time format and continued to upload my finished work.
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Recent changes, this year and last, disbanding the grid upset a lot of users and me too, initially. Not only providing amazing tools and filters within a great workspace but initially being the grid everyone used to preview their Instagram page.
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And it’s kind of been the unsung hero of the editing process in the Insta-world. Practically anyone whose photos I admire on Instagram uses VSCO.
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#VSCO EDITS FREE#
I’ve been using VSCO to edit my photos for about three years now having initially bought the Photoshop plugin packages (much cheaper now!) for my laptop and then realising there was a free and completely amazing phone app…Īnd I’m not the only one.