 what's up folks hope you're having a great time so it's currently 7 30 a.m. in the morning here in turkey istanbul i'm here with my brother my girlfriend and his girlfriend and we're going to spend new years over here which is going to be quite exciting now they're currently still sleeping while i do this video so i can't be too loud just to let you guys know and actually just woke up you can probably see my sleepy face and today is the 31st of december and this will probably be my last video of this year so i thought it would be great to make a quick tutorial on how to color grade your videos with your iphone using the photo app now they're editing softwares like final cup pro that give you advanced tools to color grade your footage they're even editing apps out there like lumofusion and inchot that also allow you to color grade your footage but we will be using the photo app since it already comes with the iphone and it's one of the easiest and quickest way to color grade your footage and this way you don't necessarily have to download a third-party app and actually shot some footages here in turkey with the iphone 13 pro max in 4k hdr that we will be color grading so with that said let's get started color grading our footage so i'm first going to open up the photos app and we will be editing this video over here which is a shot i took of the city of estanbul and this was shot during sunset actually now in order to color grade this video we're going to select edit and you have the option to either adjust the colors individually or add filter or combine both of these methods so in order to add a filter to this video clip just select these three rings over here and then you have different color presets to choose and i think for this one the dramatic warm looks really nice and i can also adjust the intensity by sliding uh this one either to the left or right and i'm going to keep it at around 60 and then i can hit done now this is a great option if you don't have time uh to color grade your footage uh and adjusting each color you can just apply a filter to your footage but since we're pros we're going to adjust each color individually so i'm going to reset that then i'm going to select this icon over here so the first option we have is the auto this will automatically apply uh and adjust the colors for you but we won't be using that let's move on to exposure this actually controls the brightness of your image so moving the slide to right will make the overall image brighter and moving it to the left darker and i actually like to bring the exposure down to around minus i would say around minus 15 this looks great next up is highlights this controls the highlights without affecting the shadows and i like to bring this down just to bring more details in the highlights and if we look at the before and after you can see that we brought down the highlights in the skies moving on to shadows the shadows controls the darkest area in the image uh without affecting the highlights so i actually want to increase this a bit uh to bring out the details in the dark areas next up is contrast so by sliding to the right it will make your image pop more or by sliding to the left it will create that sort of fade um in your image now i actually like to add some contrast to around 30 next up is brightness and i'm actually going to reduce that a little bit to around minus 15 next is the black point which controls the dark areas in the image and i can actually increase that to around 10 next up is saturation which controls the intensity of color in the image i actually want to increase that to around 15 next up we have vibrance now vibrance also controls the intensity of color in your image but leaves colors out that are in the red or orange area usually to preserve the skin tone colors so as i move the slider to the left it will take out all the colors except the ones in the red areas so this rooftop over here to the left is still red while everything else has been desaturated so i'm actually gonna reduce this just a little bit to make the buildings pop more and i'm gonna head back and actually increase the saturation a bit more to around 30 next up we have warmth so you can move the slider to the right to add more warmth into your image or to the left to make your image look cooler i think this image would look great if i would make it warmer to around 45 this looks really great there is the before and after next up we have tint so moving the slider to the right will add more magenta into your image or moving to the left will add more green into your image and i like to use tint to remove magenta or green color cast in my footage now this actually looks really great already and i actually want to add a little bit of green into this image just slightly to around minus three next up is sharpness now i usually don't add a lot of sharpness into my video since the iphone tends to over sharpen the image overall so i will just add a slight sharpening to around four next up is definition which will give more definition especially in the edges increase that to around four next up is noise reduction and this is especially noticeable in the dark areas so if i zoom in i actually don't notice much noise but i can actually increase it to just reduce a little bit of noise in the shadow areas to around 10 and last we have vignette and this is great to actually let the audience focus their attention towards an object or subject in this case it would be this mosque so i'm actually going to increase it by sliding to the right that creates this nice vignette so let's look at the before and after so we can actually use this image as a final grade but if you want to you can actually add a filter on top so i'm going to select the three rings and then i'm going to choose one that would look great for this video i think i'm going to add a little bit of dramatic warm to this image and i'm going to reduce the slider to around 35 i think i'm going to increase the brightness just a little bit more so i'm going to head over to exposure and i'm going to bring the exposure up overall then i'm going to select done so there you have it guys that is how you quickly grade your footage using the photo app on your iphone this is an amazing tool for those that want to quickly get the most out of their image when posting it on their social media okay guys so let me show you the view now i actually wanted to record a timelapse of the sun rising but as you can see it is quite cloudy out here but i'm still going to show you the timelapse i recorded now our trip so far has been really amazing we met a lot of people we ate some good food too and a couple of days ago we did this pop crawl where we went from one club to another just parting as if it were our last day here on earth so if you haven't been to turkey yet you should definitely come so thank you guys so much for watching i'll actually be heading back to switzerland on the fourth of January and i will be also celebrating my birthday so there are many things happening currently but i try to keep my upload schedule consistent it's not always easy but it's possible if you want to right and i also want to thank you guys for continuously supporting me this has been an amazing journey for me you guys really enjoyed the content that i produced and i'm having a lot of fun creating these tutorials now if you're new to my channel make sure to subscribe also download the free smartphone filmmaking guide because that will help you get started creating quality videos with your smartphone also make sure to join the smartphone filmmaking group our community on facebook is almost reaching 4 000 members so this is really mind-blowing and i'm really happy to see how active you guys are too thank you guys so much for watching i wish you guys a happy new year take care and i will see you the next time