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

This is by far the best free photo editing app. It has all of the functions and robustness of Photoshop for Windows and GIMP 2.0 as well. The only drawback is the zoom window is sometime in the way when editing detailed areas in zoom mode. If your stylus accidentally touches that window while dragging, it suddenly moves the zoom box and repositions your zoomed work area to wherever that zoom box landed when you touched it. I don't see a way to fix it other than a toggle view for the box.

Great app, but some features are not intuitive at all. For example, if you try to insert text using one of the styles, there's a good chance you're going to have to either do it word by word or insert an empty new line to get it to format correctly. The heal feature is nice, but it will be much easier to insert a square or rectangle and then fill it in (for text emphasis or underlay, esp large areas) versus attempting to heal away enough area to get the same effect.

Excellent photo editor, has a full suite of useful tools, I use it often. No warp, and I have a drawing app that excels at that and is closer to photoshop in some ways, but Snapseed is best for straight-forward color correction, cropping, color balance correction, spot-healing, sharpening, and more. The text effects are quite nice, too, I just wish there were more fonts or ability to import fonts. Option to export in JPEG or PNG, with little to no loss in quality. This editor is a must! No ads.

What's new

• Added support for a dark theme mode in Settings

• Bug fixes