How I Edit My Google Pixel 8 Photos
If I'm doing something quick to post to share on my socials, VSCO is it. I've been a long-time user since their early days. They were among the first to understand and digitize my favorite film stocks for digital photography. To this day, I still enjoy their interpretations of film stocks as they continue to grow.
They recently launched a desktop app worth checking out if you're beginning your editing journey and not quite ready to dive into Adobe Lightroom yet. Explore the colors you enjoy and why they are essential, then develop your process around them. Trying to build from a RAW file can be intimidating if you're unsure where you'd like to end up.
I'll sometimes import my Google Pixel RAW files into Adobe Lightroom if I want more control, and I happen to take a photo I'd like to take even further. However, it's not the priority of my experience and relationship with mobile photography. Even when it's a commissioned shoot by Google, all the photos come straight from the phone, and I don't edit them.
I have other cameras that I shoot with for personal and professional use, so I keep my mobile photography entirely separate from that process. My phone allows me to have a little more fun / be more loose with it. I'm focused on capturing in-between moments of my daily life. We also live in a world where everyone is so accustomed to smartphones with cameras that people are often more at ease than when you put a camera in their face. It feels less "serious," so you can get candid moments.