How I Edit My Instagram Pictures

Hey Ya'll! Today I will be showing you my tips and tricks on how I edit my Instagram pictures using Afterlight!

 

Afterlight as an IPhone app is $0.99. It is my picture editing of choice and I'm going to take you all step by step as to how I use it to edit a picture!

 

*As a disclaimer, I do not have an "Instagram theme", I edit my pictures differently depending on the picture, I will just be showing you how I edit one based off what I think it needs to look good*

 

So the first think I do is take a picture (obviously), and this one is from my free birthday lunch at a local restaurant called Joe's BBQ.

 

 
 

Then I go in and open Afterlight.

 

 

 

 

So here I will be flipping the image so it's straight.

 

 

I then go in and start playing around with different effects, I typically use clarify, contrast, saturation, exposure, high lights, and shadows to try and make it brighter and bolder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this image I went it with the  vignette effect to try and make the food more appetizing and then followed with the sharpening effect.

 

 

 

I think that looks pretty good! Now it's time to save! They also give you the option of posting from the app to your social media.


 

 

 

 

 

Simple as that! Afterlight it fun and easy to use but is also a great app for editing pictures for Instagram!

 

xo Katelyn

Blogging As A Career

We live in the internet age, and a generation where blogging is a legitimate career.

As stated in my little get to know me bio, I am very interested in creating a fashion and lifestyle blog. So i threw together some facts and points about being a blogger and how it is a legitimate career choice! enjoy!

According to Webster’s Dictionary, a blog is defined as:

“a website containing a writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences,observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.”

In its simplest form, blogging is basically writing on  website. No specific educated is needed to be a blogger. However, the knowledge of how to work with computer, take photographs and/or videos, and how to write code can be very beneficial to creating a successful blog.

There are many ways to make money from being a blogger: Companies can pay a blogger to run an ad on their blog; companies can pay a blogger to speak about the company or companies products; some companies even hire bloggers as freelance work to write for their company’s website. Another way bloggers make money, is to works at a corporate job as a writer, whether it be an editorial job or managing the company website.

The salary range for a blogger is quite wide. a blogger starting out can make no money to around minimum wage, and a very successful blogger can make up to million’s a year.

I plan to develop my writing skills in hopes to create a successful blog. My family is a very technologically advanced family, with my dad and uncles working in IT department for different companies, as well as once owning their own technology company. I hope to contact local companies and network with them to get my blog off the ground. I also plan to use social media to market my blog to friends and family in hopes for more traffic.

I am very interested in blogging as a career, I hope that I will be able to do so successfully!

xo Katelyn

Allow me to introduce myself

Hey Ya'll!

 

My name is Katelyn and this is a blog I'm creating for one of my college classes! The class is about social media, how to move and grove with the changes and challenges the internet and social media brings us. We're also learning how to positively use social media, and how to use different platforms of social media as well.

 

A goal of mine is to create a fashion and lifestyle blog, stay tuned for that! For now though, I need a starting platform where I can focus of creating myself as a writer and just gain some experience in the world of blogging and entertaining a crowd of people I don't know!

 

So strap in and let me know what ya'll think in the comments!

xo Katelyn