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Last Updated on October 20, 2023 by Eve Dawes
How to get more eye catching photos for social media
Tiktok challenges and TikTok viral videos are hard to miss! Even if you’re not on TikTok, someone like me’s going to show it to you like I do to my husband at night. They’re either cute, funny, or a great hack like this TikTok photo editing hack. I’m not a TikTok pro but wanted to find a viral tiktok challenge or trend to try to see if it made a difference in views. I found an article that told you exactly how to do the iphoto editing hack TikTok challenge. I followed it to the letter and even used the same amount of captions and hashtags for this experiment. As well as a trending TikTok song.
So how did my viral TikTok challenge video attempt do? I’ve posted it below so you can views and if it was a hit or flop.
TikTok’s viral photo editing hack
I’m always editing photos on my iphone but normally use Adobe Lightroom. Except maybe to tweak the brilliance in iPhone photo editing after.
Would I use this TikTok challenge photo editing hack again? It depends on what for. This TikTok photo editing hack gives super saturated, high contrast edits so if I’m wanting something dramatic then yes. For photos for this blog, probably not.
To try this, you just need to choose the photo you want from your phone and adjust the various settings as shown below. You don’t have to set the exposure and brilliance to 100 to start but it makes for a more satisfying reveal at the end when all of the other settings are set.
Depending on your lighting, colors and personal editing preference you might want to tweak some of these settings.
How to do the TikTok editing hack
It looks a lot of steps to do this TikTok challenge photo editing hack but it’s super quick and easy. You just work your way through your iPhones editing settings from left to right until they’re all done.
- Open your iPhone photos app.
- Click ‘edit’ to edit your photo (top right on most iPhones).
- Slide the Exposure to 100
- Slide the Brilliance to 100
- Set Highlights to -35
- Set Shadows to -28.
- Slide Contrast to -30
- Brightness at -15.
- Black Point 10.
- Saturation 10
- Vibrancy 8.
- Warmth 10.
- Tint 39.
- Sharpness 14.
- Vignette + 23.
- Slide Exposure and Brilliance back down to zero to reveal your final image.

The exact number for each effect varies based on each viral video featuring the hack, so don’t be afraid to change things to your liking to get the perfect effect.
How to do TikTok challenges viral photo editing hack
If you want to give this TikTok photo editing hack a go you can follow these steps pretty much step by step. Or screen shot the steps or save my TikTok video to follow along whenever you want to try it. Let me know how it goes or feel free to duet mine.
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Does duping TikTok challenges help you go viral?
My experience with this TikTok viral challenge, including duping the video, voice, text overlay and caption was an epic fail! It was one of my least viewed TikTok videos ever! I have no idea how the TikTok algorithm works but duping TikTok challenges was a miss for me. But at least I managed to share a fun TikTok photo editing hack.
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What’s your experience been? I’d love to hear. Message me on IG and let me know what your experience with doing a TikTok challenge has been or if you have TikTok tips I can quote you on and share here. Whats worked and what hasn’t, etc?
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Eve Dawes is a fashion and lifestyle editor and founder of Best Luxury Handbags, the number one luxury fashion and lifestyle magazine in Las Vegas. With over 15 years of industry experience spanning professional performance, fashion styling, beauty formulation and fitness, Eve brings a level of genuine expertise to her content that goes well beyond standard publishing. Beauty and skincare expertise: Eve's beauty device coverage is backed by direct brand access that most independent reviewers don't have. She has had one-on-one training with Melanie Simon, founder of ZIIP Halo, giving her a deeper technical understanding of microcurrent and nanocurrent technology than any spec sheet can provide. She has had in-person education with CurrentBody directly and attended an exclusive Zoom masterclass with Dr Jason Diamond on the launch of his Metacine Eyelift. She is also the founder of Dawes Custom Cosmetics, a triple award-winning cruelty-free luxury cosmetics line - winning Best Custom-Blended Cosmetics Business USA and the LUX Customer Service Excellence Award Las Vegas, which gives her professional beauty formulation training that informs every product review she writes. Every recommendation on this site is based on genuine long-term personal testing, before and after photos included. Fashion and styling credentials: Originally from England, Eve trained as a ballerina at Central School of Ballet and London Studio Centre before touring internationally as a professional dancer with the Vienna Festival Ballet, in musicals, on TV, in music videos, theatres, casinos and cruise lines, and in films including Burlesque and Burt Wonderstone. This performance background gave her a unique eye for style, fit and how clothing moves on the body - which underpins everything she writes about fashion. She has collaborated with Revolve, Faviana, and designer Debbie Carroll, and has over 50 designer bags in her personal collection, making her designer handbag and luxury fashion coverage genuinely authoritative rather than aspirational. Fitness and wellness credentials: Eve is a NASM and REPS certified Personal Trainer, Sports Massage Therapist, Yoga and Spin instructor, a graduate of Premier International London, and a WBFF Professional Athlete who won her Pro card competing at the highest level of women's fitness competition. She is also Mrs. England World 2020 and Mrs. Nevada United States 2017, placing Top 15 at Mrs. United States, and was awarded the Nevada Community Service Award for two consecutive years. She studied the Art of Rhetoric and Persuasive Speech at Harvard. Press and media: Eve has been featured in Vogue, Rolling Stone, LA Times, Modern Luxury Magazine, Huffington Post, Oxygen Magazine, Iron Man Magazine, Strong Magazine, Fit and Firm Magazine, E!, BodyBuilding.com and Beast Games, among others. She has appeared in commercials, music videos and films, and previously worked as a content creator for Google Web Stories and is a Mediavine publisher. What you'll find on Best Luxury Handbags: Best Luxury Handbags is a luxury fashion and lifestyle magazine covering beauty devices and skincare, designer bags, travel and wellness - all through the lens of someone who has worn, tested and lived with everything she recommends. Nothing on this site is written from a press release.

