Pitch Perfect Picture Editing for Your Photo Books

You can easily make your pictures even greater than the moments and objects you captured in them, all without taking a photography or photo editing course. After reading this article about some of the straightforward photo enhancement methods that you have at your disposal, you will realize that slightly modifying your photos doesn’t hurt after all.

What’s all the fuss with photo editing?

It’s totally understandable if you don’t dare touching your pictures on a more advanced level after they have been put into the photo book. But like we said before, with the exception of a few companies like BrideBox and Mpix, no modifications are made on your photos, thus they will appear the way they can be seen on your computer screen: dark pictures will be dark, blurry ones will be blurry and so on. In conclusion, some modifications are a must.

Basic editing options in Mpix

Editing options in photo book builders

Your picture editing options heavily depend on the photo book editor you have chosen. Most of the time you can only do basic things like rotating, cropping, mirroring etc., which is especially true if you choose a photo book theme that has fixed photo placeholders. Some advanced editors, like Shutterfly, offer you more options like adding shades, certain filters to your photos, applying frames and making slight adjustments to the saturation, hue, brightness and such. The best options we have encountered are found in RitzPix and Collage.com; while the former uses the complementary services of Adobe Creative Cloud and PicMonkey, and the latter has everything incorporated therein, both solutions are capable of creating an almost perfect Instagram feeling without actually using the app.

Complementary editors

If your chosen photo book builder doesn’t perform well regarding those pesky adjustments, then you have to find other software or apps for making true masterpieces out of your pictures. And thankfully, there are a lot of solutions for that: