This 1-day course equips participants with practical, hands-on skills to enhance and transform photos using their smartphones for personal, social media, and simple business use. Learners will gain a clear understanding of photo editing fundamentals, apply essential and advanced adjustment techniques, and maximise inbuilt smartphone editing features for quick improvements. The course also introduces creative editing with Snapseed for greater control and AI-assisted editing with Pixlr for fast, professional-looking results such as background removal, object clean-up, and collages. By the end of the course, participants will be confident in choosing the right editing approach and tools to create visually appealing, high-quality images efficiently for everyday and digital marketing needs.

Things to bring during the course:
1. Smartphone devices
2. Requires iOS 14.0 or Android OS 7.0
3. Chargers for the mobile devices
4. Telegram for sharing work
5. Download Snapseed and Pixlr free apps

Objective

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of photo editing and different types of photo adjustment techniques
• Apply basic and advanced photo adjustment techniques to enhance image quality
• Utilise inbuilt smartphone photo editing features for quick and effective edits
• Perform creative photo editing using Snapseed for greater control and refinement
• Apply AI-assisted photo editing techniques using Pixlr to achieve faster, professional-looking results
• Select appropriate editing tools and techniques based on the purpose and intended use of images

Outline

1. Introduction to photo editing
• Types of photo adjustment techniques
• Purpose driven editing

2. Basic Photo adjustment Techniques
• Brightness & Contrast
• Saturation
• Highlights & Shadows
• Sharpening
• White Balance

3. Advanced Photo adjustments
• Crop & Perspective
• Selective Editing
• Skin Retouch
• Noise Reduction
• Vignette
• Adding Filters and Effects
• Adding text onto photos
• Save and Export

4. Understanding inbuilt smartphone photo editing features
• Overview of inbuilt photo editing tools on smartphones
• Auto enhancement and basic adjustments
• Crop, straighten, and rotate tools
• Colour, exposure, and lighting controls
• Adding Filters and Effects

5. Creative Editing with Snapseed
• Navigating the Snapseed interface
• Applying basic editing techniques
• Retouched and transformation editing
• Applying styles to the images
• Adding frames and text

6. AI photo editing with Pixlr
• Navigating the Pixlr interface
• Understanding AI-assisted editing features
• One-tap enhancements and smart adjustments
• AI background removal
• AI object removal and clean-up
• Collage making

Who should attend

This course is suitable for beginners, social media users, small business owners, content creators, and working professionals who want to enhance their photos using smartphones. It is ideal for individuals with little or no prior editing experience who wish to create polished, visually appealing images for personal use, social media, or simple marketing purposes, while learning both manual and AI-assisted photo editing techniques in a practical and easy-to-follow manner.

Methodology

This methodology balances theory with hands-on practice, ensuring participants leave with practical skills and confidence in mobile photo editing.

Kalarani Kavindran's Profile

Kalarani graduated with a Master’s in Digital Marketing, building strong expertise in digital strategy, analytics, content marketing, and performance-driven decision-making. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Technology and Design from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, giving her a solid foundation in creative design, digital media, and technology.

She is a Microsoft and Adobe Certified Trainer with industry-recognised certifications including META Certified Digital Marketing Associate, Google Search Ads Certification, and ICDL certification in Adobe Photoshop. Kalarani is highly proficient in advanced Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and stays current with evolving digital marketing and AI tools to ensure training relevance.

With over 11 years of experience as a professional trainer, Kalarani specialises in digital marketing, content marketing, and AI-powered workflows, delivering courses such as SEO, Google Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Google Analytics, and AI tools for content creation. As the Director and Head Photographer of Kalzstudioz Media Services, she combines marketing expertise with creative execution in photography, videography, and design, while leveraging AI for content creation, marketing optimisation, and advanced photo editing workflows.