Ok so if I’m honest when I first heard of Snapseed my initial reaction was “Not another editing App for the iPad!“… I mean how many more do we need and thinking about it, what’s the point because I’m never going to actually take them serious enough to do any ‘proper’ editing; or at least that’s what I used to think…
Snapseed is made by Nik Software…the makers of Photoshop Plug ins such as Silver Efex Pro 2 [Link] and Color Efex Pro [Link] so when it comes to editing these guys definitely know a thing or two, and it shows…
Everything about the interface, the usability and most importantly the results it can produce just work! So much so that since installing the App and having been using it for just over a week I’ve removed most if not all of the other editing Apps that I used to use.
The interface is incredibly user friendly giving ready access to the multitude of adjustments and filters that are available such as Drama, Grunge, Centre Focus, Selective Adjustment, Auto Correct and so on and what’s more Snapseed makes use of finger gestures to choose and applying a filter, or adjustment with ease…
Nik Software have even the included the ability to selectively edit a specific area of an image by using something very similar to their Viveza technology [Link], which incidentally works a treat…
Snapseed is addictive! I’ve edited quite a few photos using it over the past week and having exported and opened them in Photoshop to take a closer look, I’ve been really impressed with the quality of the results.
Previous experience using other editing Apps has been that they look great whilst still in the iOS device, but then when looked at a little closer the editing applied is actually quite crude; but this is definitely not the case with Snapseed! In fact on more than one occasion I’ve only then opened the image in Photoshop to remove an unwanted item, a little tidying up and some sharpening.
The really interesting thing is that although I’m not going to be using my iPad and Snapseed to edit client images anytime soon, it’s certainly food for thought about the way things are going. 5 years ago I never would have dreamed I’d have in my hands a phone that not only makes and receives calls, but is also a Sat Nav, a web browser, a language translator, a personal music system, a video player and so on…all which at one point seemed implausible, so is it so far fetched to think that one day we will be editing client images on our iPads?
You see Snapseed by Nik Software is good…really good, and because of this it’s got me thinking that maybe in the future, editing directly on the iPad isn’t such a daft idea.
So what do you think? Far fetched or not? I’d love to ‘hear’ your thoughts on this so as always please feel free to make use of the comments section below.
Enjoy
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>Snapseed is available for the crazy low price of just £2.99 through iTunes at the following [Link] and in addition to that there’s a page over on Nik’s own website where you can check out some videos to see it in action [Link]
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