How to Take a Good Selfie: 8 Must-Know Tips

Knowing how to take good selfies is an art in itself. Capturing your best look involves understanding the right angles and camera tricks to get the results you want. Even when the camera can’t do all the work, YouCam Perfect takes care of the rest with impressive editing features to enhance your photos. Check out these eight selfie tips and tricks to get the perfect shareable selfies!

Why Taking Good Selfies is Important

Coinciding with the rise of smartphones and social media, selfies have taken over our feeds. Social media users are always looking to perfect the art of the selfie, on #NationalSelfieDay and every other day. However, many of us haven’t quite yet mastered the skill of taking a good selfie. Whether it’s due to bad lighting, poor angles, or a lack of a good filter, there are countless reasons you’re not getting your best selfie. But have no fear, we are here to share eight must-know tips for taking a good selfie.

YouCam Perfect: Best Selfie Camera & Photo Editor

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YouCam Perfect has all the tools you need to create incredible selfies that you can’t wait to show off. With the app’s Selfie Camera, you can take perfect selfies and use lots of Beautifying tools to highlight your favorite features. Explore all the effects and frames in themed collections, whether you’re looking for a cozy seasonal vibe, a holiday look, or an exciting artistic edit.

With the Photo Editor feature, you can choose a picture you’ve already taken and use the photo editing tools to remove objects, remove background, add animation, aesthetic filters, and more. With YouCam Perfect’s AI technology, you get natural edits every time. Keep reading to learn how you can take a great selfie and make it even better with YouCam Perfect!

How to Take a Good Selfie: 8 Must-Know Tips

It’s not as easy as just pointing and shooting — a good selfie takes a certain degree of expertise. Lucky for you, our top tips for taking a selfie are easy to pick up and will guarantee you end up with a beautiful photo.

1. Find Good Lighting
2. Find Good Selfie Angles
3. Show Off Your Smile
4. Amazing Selfie Eyes
5. Have a Fun Background
6. Try a Body Selfie
7. Look Into the Camera
8. Use Right App & Have Fun With Edits

Selfie Tip 1: Find Good Lighting

Experts will always tell you that proper lighting is the key to the perfect photo, and the lighting of your selfie is no exception.

▲ Bad Lighting vs Good Lighting

Before you take your photo, you’ll want to make sure you’re not backlit, meaning, the light is not coming from behind you. When the lighting is in front of you and behind the camera, it illuminates your face, making for a more aesthetically appealing picture.

Reading more to learn more retouch tips on editing your selfies.

Selfie Tip 2: Find Good Selfie Angles

We all know there are certain photos of ourselves that we like the best, and it’s often thanks to angles. Everyone knows their good side and their bad side, so when you take your selfie, be sure to accentuate the one you like best. If you aren’t sure which one is your good side, remember to position yourself from a top-down perspective.

Hold your phone higher than forehead-height and tilt your camera down when taking your selfie. This top-down angle (45 degrees is ideal) is the most universally flattering angle for capturing a stunning selfie. We’ve all seen photos shot from a too-low angle that accentuates our least favorite slant, but by shooting from the top-down angle you’ll avoid this selfie pitfall.

Selfie Tip 2: Show Off Your Sparkling White Smile

When you post your selfie, the first thing people look at is your smile. A genuine smile shows off your confidence, looks natural, and makes you look approachable. If you’re self-conscious about yellow teeth, YouCam Perfect can brighten them fast with its Teeth Whitener in both Camera and Photo Edit mode. Download the app to take your perfect selfie now!

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Selfie Tip 3: Amazing Selfie Eyes

Everyone gets dark circles and wrinkles at some point, but that doesn’t mean they have to show up in your selfies. When you look tired in your snaps, it shows, since your eyes are one of the first things people notice when they look at your photos. Whether it happens because of a sleepless night, poor lighting, or the wrong angle, seeing dull eyes can lower your confidence.

With YouCam Perfect, you can get rid of eye bags in seconds, brighten your eyes, and even enlarge your eyes for a naturally gorgeous look. Here’s how to use the app’s eye editing tools to get big, beautiful selfie eyes:

1. Choose Beautify and upload the photo you want to edit.
2. Scroll to find the Brighten option, and use the slider to make your eyes brighter.
3. Go to Eye Bag and use the slider to reduce your eye bags.
4. Choose Enlarger and use the Size, Width, and Height tools to adjust the look of your eyes.
5. Save your edits!

Selfie Tip 5: Have a Fun Background

Whether you’re taking a selfie at a famous tourist attraction or you just want to capture your flawless outfit of the day, ensure you have a nice background to frame it with.

If you can’t avoid a background when you take a selfie, consider using an app like YouCam Perfect after the fact to help you create the perfect selfie. With YouCam Perfect, you can remove and change your background, blur it to remove unsightly spots, or even eliminate unwanted objects from the scene.

Selfie Tip 6: Try a Body Selfie

Selfies aren’t only for your face. When you want to show off your fit of the day, you want your body to reflect your confidence. Sometimes, the camera doesn’t capture the angle you want, which is why having a body tuner app on hand can help adjust the camera’s mistakes.

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With YouCam Perfect, you can edit your body shape to achieve the look you want in your selfies. It lets you enhance your breasts or hips, get a slimmer waist, and edit any other areas you want with smart technology and minimal manual editing. Follow these steps to get professional-looking body edits in your selfies:

1. Go to Beautify and select the Body Tuner tool.
2. Tap the Protect feature to prevent your background from warping when you edit your body.
3. Choose the area of your body you want to edit and let YouCam Perfect’s AI detect it automatically.
4. Select whether you want to enhance or slim the area.
5. Drag the slider to adjust your body part.
6. Save your edits!
   

Selfie Tip 7: Look Into the Camera

Many of us will remember a time when we took funny selfies with a far-off, distant gaze, but in reality, making eye contact with your phone’s front camera will produce the best result when you’re taking a selfie. It can be tempting to look at the screen to see yourself and preview the photo, but you want to connect with the viewer and look straight into the camera as much as possible.

Selfie Tip 8: Use Right App & Have Fun With Edits

The final touch to your selfie should include edits that add a special touch to your shot. With the YouCam Perfect app, you can add animation, make a double exposure, and even integrate fun effects and stickers to your final product. Try any of our most popular selfie editing features to level up your photos.

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What Are the Best Selfie Angles?

Everyone has a different face shape, features, and body, so the same selfie angles won’t look the same for every person. But if you’re looking for a place to start, try these tips:

• Point your chin down and look up at the camera to give your face a slimmer look and make your eyes appear larger.
• Turn your head to the side to show off your facial features more clearly and accentuate your favorite areas.
• Look directly at the camera, but raise your phone a little, so it gives you a slightly elevated view.
  

Download YouCam Perfect: Best Selfie Camera App for a Good Selfie

Are you ready to take the perfect selfie? Once you’ve got a photo you love, take it the extra mile with enhancements thanks to the best free selfie app, YouCam Perfect. Download the YouCam Perfect app, the best photo editing apps for selfies, for either iOS or Android today to get started!

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Watch a cool example of how to use the animation effect to enhance your selfie.

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