Each page below takes one job and walks through it with the app's own buttons. Most of them use a real photo, with the settings I used. Use those settings as a starting point and change them to suit your photo.
The steps show the iPhone and iPad app. Chobial for Android is in a closed beta. It works the same way for films, the camera and the editor. Android doesn't have iCloud sync, the Apple Watch remote, Camera Control, Siri or the iPhone Duo and iPad layouts. You can join the Android beta on the beta page.
The camera
- Exposure: ISO and shutter by hand: set the ISO or the shutter on a dial, and give it back to Auto. Check the light with the histogram and zebras.
- Change film, peek and lock focus: swipe to change film, and see the picture without it. Lock focus and exposure, or focus by hand.
- Shoot without touching the screen: use the timer, Camera Control, the Apple Watch, Siri or the Lock Screen.
The editor
- Masks: select the sky, or draw a graduated filter or an oval. Paint with a brush, and invert or turn off a mask.
- Heal and clone: take out dust, spots and wires. Each one is filled from another part of the photo.
- LUTs and Lightroom presets: build a film on a .cube file or a Lightroom preset, and shoot through it. Or export your own film as a .cube or an .xmp preset.
- Light: fix a dark face: select a face in shadow and brighten it from the RAW. The background doesn't turn white.
- Describe Edits: type or say how the photo should look, and Chobial moves the sliders for you.
Before you start
Every photo keeps its original. Every camera setting and every edit stays with that original. The film is only how the photo is developed right now. So you can always go back to the Film tool and pick another film, and your masks and heals stay where you put them. To see what each film looks like, browse the films.
The Film tool also has sliders for that one photo: Strength, Grain, Bloom, Halation, Fade, Clarity, Dehaze and Sharpen. Grain, Bloom and Halation start at the film's own amount. You can turn them up or down for one photo, and the film stays the same. Sharpen makes fine detail crisper.
Masks, heal and clone are free to try on any photo. Saving or sharing a photo that uses them needs Chobial Pro. Without Pro, the photo still saves for free, but without them.
Still stuck?
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