How To ENHANCE with a BACKGROUND IMAGE in SNAPSEED | SNAPSEED TUTORIAL | DOUBLE EXPOSURE | Android | iPhone

Today in this lovely portrait image, I am gonna try changing the background and enhancing it with the free snapseed app.

• After importing, first I am gonna try changing the background.
• Using the Double Exposure tool, I am gonna add this image of the Mountains.
• Making it bigger and placing it at the desired position.
• Setting the opaqueness to 100 and applying it.
• Now to reveal the original image, some masking work is needed.
• Tapping on the Stacks icon on the top right, View edits, tap Double Exposure and brush.
• First with the added background image hidden, with the brush transparency set at 100,
• I am gonna roughly brush out at the top to reveal it.
• With the brush value at zero, again brushing roughly on the subject
• and the foreground to disclose it.
• Now zooming in as much as possible and with the brush value at 100, brushing out carefully
• on the outer edges of the main subject to fine tune the selection.
• This will take a lot of time, so fast forwarding it.
• Now to get the flowery foreground selection, first gonna try carefully to reveal the flowers.
• Then fine tuning it by brushing out the greens.
• It is certainly not easy to get the seamless edges here.
• With a few tricks, we can get better results which I will try later.
• Toggle the red mask to check if the mask is applied correctly.
• Next to darken the lower part of the image,
• in Curves, I am gonna drag the top point of the curve down the curve down.
• And also the middle part towards right to darken the overall image.
• Then with masking, with the effect applied, removing the effect over the top parts of the image.
• Also will try to darken the left part of the sky a little with the brush value at 50.
• Trying here to give the effect where the sun light is coming from the right edge.
• Now for some Selective filters.
• A couple to brighten the greens on the top part of the foreground.
• One on the faces where I will try to smoothen the skin by reducing the structure.
• Little brightness
• and some saturation.
• More brightening the right part of the sky.
• And one to give more color to the blues in the sky.
• Now I am gonna try to give some blurness to the background.
• Selecting the Lens blur tool.
• Changing to linear filter, moving to the bottom so that the foreground is in focus
• and the background more blurry.
• Reducing the Blur Strength just a bit.
• Then with masking, removing the blur on the subject carefully by brushing out the effect.
• Also at the bottom on the foreground.
• Next I am gonna try to give some color to the brighter parts of the sky.
• With the Curves, I am gonna lift the blacks then add a bit of yellow
• by dragging the blue curve towards right.
• Also lot of red.
• Then with masking,
• first roughly brushing on the sky to reveal the effect.
• Then fine tuning it.
• Now to hide the uneven selection on the edges of the foreground,
• I am gonna try adding a hazy effect.
• Again with Curves, crushing the blacks,
• adding yellows and a lot of reds.
• Bit different color tuning than the one we applied in the sky.
• With masking applying it.
• To give more pop to the flowery foreground,
• selectively applying hard contrast preset with the Curves.
• Just a bit on the sky too.
• Next to give some color to the overall image, adding a bit of red tint in White Balance.
• A couple of Selective filters.
• First on the face to tone down the reddish skin tones,
• also some contrast.
• And also more color to the brighter part of the sky.
• The changes after each edit.

 And the final result.