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Learn to edit.

Photos, color, retouch, compositing and video. Work right on the picture, and go back and change any edit later.

6 tutorials8 demosevery one stands alone
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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Work on your own photos and clips: make a photo pop, cut a short video, give a picture a film look, retouch a portrait, give a photo a new background and make a poster. Pick any of them, in any order.

A hazy lake after this tutorial: clearer water, a deeper sky and a level shoreline.
First stepsFirst hour10 min

Make a photo pop

Your own photo, clearer and brighter, with a deeper sky, a level horizon and soft dark corners, saved as a new picture file.

  1. Bring in a photo
  2. Brighten it with Develop
  3. Select the sky and deepen it
  4. Save it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
Three clips on the video timeline with dissolves between them, a title above and the picture at the top right.
First stepsFirst hour12 min

Cut a short video

A short video from your own clips, put in order and trimmed, with fades, dissolves and a title, exported as an MP4 file.

  1. Add a clip timeline
  2. Bring in your clips
  3. Trim, fade and add a title
  4. Export
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A bear on a misty hillside with the Film print recipe: warm cream tones and fine grain.
First steps8 min

Give a photo a film look

Your photo with the warm, soft color, fine grain and red glow around bright spots of a printed film frame, saved as a new file.

  1. Bring in a photo
  2. Put on Film print
  3. Set strength, grain and glow
  4. Save it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A smiling self-portrait in soft daylight, after the retouch: a few spots healed, the skin evened with its pores kept, a little light on the cheekbones, a touch of warmth and a 4:5 crop. · Photo: Elizabeth MacKenzie, self-portrait, CC BY 4.0 (retouched in Kinematic)Photo: Elizabeth MacKenzie, self-portrait, CC BY 4.0 (retouched in Kinematic)
Getting going15 min

Retouch a portrait

A portrait with spots healed, smoother skin that keeps its pores, light shaped on the face, brighter eyes and a 4:5 crop, saved as a new file.

  1. Heal spots
  2. Smooth the skin
  3. Dodge and burn
  4. Brighten the eyes and crop
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A lovebird cut out of a balcony photo and set on evening city lights.
Getting going12 min

Give a photo a new background

Your subject cut out of its photo with a clean edge, warmed to suit a new background of your choice, and saved as one picture.

  1. Select the subject
  2. Cut it out
  3. Clean the edge
  4. Place a new background
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A photo walk poster: a red tram on a city street, with PHOTO WALK in a dark band below.
Getting going12 min

Make a poster from a photo

A tall poster from one of your photos: cropped to paper shape, with a dark band and two lines of text, saved ready to print or share.

  1. Crop to paper shape
  2. Add a band
  3. Set the title
  4. Save it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
Demos

Pull these apart.

Open any of them from Help > Browse Demos in the app, watch it run, and change whatever you like.

Chroma key advanced
Film look chainDrifting bokeh fieldFractal double exposureXOR composite artImage file displayTwo noise compositeMIDI clip synth
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Go deeper

Guides and ideas.

Guides, under Help in the app

Image editingin the app
Adjust with Develop and Quick adjustin the app
Selectionsin the app
Paint, remove and smooth overin the app
Compositing a cut-outin the app
Video clean-upin the app
Video timelinein the app
Loading color spacesin the app

Things to make

Photo→Color→Selections & masks→Retouch→Relight & depth→Composite→Restore & enlarge→Posters & layouts→Video→MIDI editor→Effects→

Elsewhere

The Edit page→Sound editing, on Play→Coming from Nuke→Your first hour→The reference→Get help→

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