Snap & Shine: Elevate Your iPhone Photography

Learn how lighting—front, side, and backlight—shapes iPhone photography, then practice taking two photos per technique and upload them to the project page to track progress.

Cultivate connections with your subject to elevate photos; talk first, then photograph, then stare into their eyes for 10 seconds, ask open-ended questions, and edit your photos.

Learn to edit photos on your smartphone by adjusting lighting, color, brightness, shadows, and saturation, compare before and after, and upload your favorites for a class project.

Learn to perform quick, basic edits on iPhone photos using auto adjust and manual controls for exposure, highlights, shadows, contrast, vibrancy, warmth, cropping, and simple filters.

Discover Lightroom, an Adobe photo editing app for iOS and Android that offers free basic editing, presets, organization, non-destructive edits, and premium AI tools for advanced effects.

Learn to navigate Lightroom Mobile’s community side, explore and remix presets, and perform quick edits with auto enhance, subject, and background tools to refine iPhone photos.

Learn to share edited photos from Lightroom with export options, borders, watermarks, and content credential, tailor outputs for social media, and create before-and-after replays.

Master advanced mobile editing with Snapseed, a professional Google app offering selective editing, perspective corrections, and raw file support. Import photos, apply looks, tweak brightness, color, crop, and share.

VSCO enables photographers to edit photos and videos with film-inspired presets and advanced tools, connect with a creator community, build a portfolio, and even receive payments.

Explore portrait mode through real examples and see how the rule of thirds and composition shape iPhone photos. Practice with portrait and non-portrait shots, and share your progress.

Master square mode to capture square photos instantly for Instagram grids, turning the camera frame into a square and switching from portrait to square without cropping using simple zoom controls.

Learn to capture wide panoramic photos with your phone using panoramic mode, dragging left to right and adjusting zoom. Practice outdoors and share your results with the group.

Explore panoramic images with your smartphone, capture wide city views, edit and share standout shots in the project page or Facebook group, and prepare for field tour mode.

Learn when to use your iPhone flash, how to toggle on, off, or auto, and how to light specific parts of a scene for clearer, more dramatic photos.

Elevate iPhone photography by mastering timing with a three-second and ten-second countdown, using the timer to capture moving subjects, trigger shots, and apply filters for sharper, well-timed photos.

Master iPhone video through vertical framing, lighting, and purposeful movement to tell a narrated story, as shown by shooting a smartphone short film at a Miami conference.

Explore how slow motion on your smartphone works and when to use it, then capture action footage—water, cars, or night scenes—and share your slo-mo clips.

Learn how time lapse on your iPhone captures space and time by taking periodic photos to create a short video. Experiment with city scenes and events, and share your results.

Learn to edit a smartphone film using apps like adobe rush, premiere pro rush, or final cut, then trim clips, add music and text, apply transitions, and sync with iCloud.

Celebrate completing snap and shine: elevate your iPhone photography by sharing progress with friends and community, giving feedback, and inspiring others to tell powerful stories through better phone photos.