iOS 13’s Photos app brings new ways to browse and edit not just images, but videos too.
Announced at the WWDC 2019 keynote on Monday, June 3, 2019 ahead of commercial launch in the fall, the iOS 13 software update includes rich updates for the Photos app that make it easy and fun to browse your photos with intelligently curated albums, adjust the intensity of Portrait Lighting, enhance shots with a new monochromatic effect, edit videos and more.
Now with video editing
Prior iOS 13 versions required a third-party app with a Photos extension to edit video within the Photos app, like iMovie or Infltr. With iOS 13, videos can be edited on your iPhone or iPad out of the box. And it doesn’t stop there because nearly every tool and effect available for images within the Photos app can now be used on videos.
This includes the awesome Auto Enhance feature that does multiple adjustments to make any lifeless picture pop with a tap of the magic wand icon in the editing interface. That’s right, you can now tap that same icon and your iPhone or iPad will apply the video’s color levels, brightness, contrast, saturation and the like for maximum effect.
Best of all, you can now apply built-in effects to videos—as well as rotate and crop videos by using standard tools available right within the Photos app.
Revamped photo editing
The editing experience has been redesigned both visually and functionally, with new controls and gestures allowing you to control any adjustment or filter with ease. You will immediately notice all-new adjustment dials that let you apply an edit with precision.
Now every effect or adjustment has its own precise dial which makes it super easy to see at a glance which effects have been increased or decreased. Just hold your finger on an adjustment dial and drag up or down to increase of decrease intensity of your favorite filter. The effect icon now has a circular outline that gradually fills as you make the effect more or less prominent, with the current intensity printed inside the circle as a numerical value.
Just for the kicks, select the Auto Enhance tool (the magic wand icon) and play with the slider to see how it adjusts parameters like brightness, hue and saturation in real time.
Intelligently curated library
The great thing about Photos in iOS 13 is its ability to temporarily hide images that are out of focus, similar shots, screenshots and so forth. This is accomplished by analyzing your image library and using on-device machine learning.
This new curated view applies to your best moments from every day, month and year and can be found under the Photos tab. What you’re ended up with is a carefully curated library that highlights the best images and significant events from the past day, month or year.
In the Year view, Photos can even recognize the same events from years past, such as all the WWDCs you’ve attended so far, and show them off properly. Another example would be your junior’s birthday images – with just a swipe in the Year view, you could see yearly albums of your kid’s birthday celebrations one after another.
And while you browse the library, any video content will play automatically as it comes into view, really helping bring your best media assets to life. Of course, you can still browse the full library—the clutter, similar photos, screenshots and everything—by using the All Photos view.
Portrait Lighting control
iOS 13 lets you change the intensity of light in Portrait Lighting shooting mode.
When you select Portrait Lighting, you’ll now see a slider similar to the Depth Control slider. Manipulate the slider to move the virtual light source closer or farther away from your subject. You can adjust the position and intensity of each Portrait Lighting effect.
Like with real portraiture photography, bringing the light source closer to the subject will sharpen eyes as well as brighten and smooth out facial features. Push the light farther away and you’ll create a more refined look.
Introducing High‑Key Mono
The Photos app in iOS 13 brings out a new effect: High-Key Mono. This monochromatic filter has been created especially for Portrait mode shots to help you create a gorgeous monochromatic look with little effort.
Powerful sharing
The Photos tab has been redesigned to help you find relive, and share your favorite memories. When using the Share sheet, tap Options to reveal a hidden settings screen where you can choose whether to share individual items or just an iCloud URL that the recipient can open to view or download the shared photos and videos.
Other toggles available on that screen let you optionally include or strip away location information from shared media and decided whether AirDrop sharing should send a JPG version of the image with all the edits already applied or share your captures in their full original quality, with all adjustments included so that the recipient is able to adjust the edits when they import the image to Photos or even revert to its original.
Siri intelligence also recommends people and apps to share the selected items with, right there in the share sheet, based on selected content and your interactions with it and past behavior.
And if you scroll vertically a little bit, you will reveal other sharing options and editing actions (like Duplicate, Hide, Save to Files, Copy Photos and more) along with any image-based shortcuts (previously created in the Shortcuts app).
To learn more about iOS 13, read Apple’s press release or visit apple.com/ios/ios-13-preview.
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