Snapseed

Google LLC

About this app

Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor developed by Google.



== KEY FEATURES==

• 29 Tools and Filters, including: Healing, Brush, Structure, HDR, Perspective (see list below)

• Opens JPG and RAW files

• Save your personal looks and apply them to new photos later

• Selective filter brush

• All styles can be tweaked with fine, precise control



== TOOLS, FILTERS AND FACE ==

• RAW Develop – open and tweak RAW DNG files; save non-destructively or export as JPG

• Tune image – adjust exposure and color automatically or manually with fine, precise control

• Details – magically brings out surface structures in images

• Crop – crop to standard sizes or freely

• Rotate – rotate by 90°, or straighten a skewed horizon

• Perspective – fix skewed lines and perfect the geometry of horizons or buildings

• White Balance – adjust the colors so that the image looks more natural

• Brush – selectively retouch exposure, saturation, brightness or warmth

• Selective – the renown “Control Point” technology: Position up to 8 points on the image and assign enhancements, the algorithm does the rest magically

• Healing – remove the uninvited neighbor from a group picture

• Vignette – add a soft darkness around the corners like a beautiful, wide-aperture would do

• Text – add both stylized or plain text

• Curves - have precise control over the brightness levels in your photos

• Expand - increase the size of your canvas and fill up the new space in smart ways with content of your image

• Lens Blur – add a beautiful Bokeh to images (background softening), ideal for photographic portraits

• Glamour Glow – add a fine glow to images, great for fashion or portraits

• Tonal Contrast – boost details selectively in the shadows, midtones and highlights

• HDR Scape – bring a stunning look to your images by creating the effect of multiple exposures

• Drama – add a hint of doomsday to your images (6 styles)

• Grunge – an edgy look with strong styles and texture overlays

• Grainy Film – get modern film looks with realistic grain

• Vintage – the style of color film photo from the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s

• Retrolux – go retro with light leaks, scratches, film styles

• Noir – Black and White film looks with realistic grain and the “wash” effect

• Black & White – classic Black and White look straight out of the darkroom

• Frames – add frames with adjustable size

• Double Exposure - blend two photos, choosing from blend modes that are inspired by shooting on film and by digital image processing

• Face Enhance – add focus to the eyes, add face-specific lighting, or smoothen skin

• Face Pose - correct the pose of portraits based on three dimensional models

Ratings and reviews

While this does have some issues that, if addressed, it would make this a good app. The only way to adjust font size is to zoom in/out. The ability to flip verically/horizontally would be nice. More editing features would help. No need for cat ears, rabbit nose, or beaver teeth type photo editing. Leave that to the kids. I used this app to edit 1,135 photos & upload them to the cloud. This is a basic app that does the job. Fixing a few bugs in this would make it a real good app.

It's a pretty basic editor disguised as something more complex. It's moderately useful but I would like to see more frequent updates and MAJOR improvements to the most basic/fundamental tools. For example, the "healing" (blemish remover) tool is a disaster. It just replaces whatever you're trying to remove with a random nearby part of the image, usually making the blemish worse. Solid foundation but MUCH room for improvement.

If you use this app to edit an older photo, it will disappear into oblivion. The photos used to be saved into the 'snapseed' folder automatically, which made them easy to find. Now they automatically save next to the original image. They do not show up as a recent image in Google photos. This has made it way harder to find my edits unless I know the date of when the original was taken.

What's new

• Added support for a dark theme mode in Settings

• Bug fixes