iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad | 24.5 MB | 4.5/5 stars
"Snapseed is the only photo app you’ll want to use every day. It makes any photograph extraordinary with a fun, high-quality photo experience right at your fingertips.
Anyone can enhance, transform, and share their photos with ease using incredibly advanced features from the leader in digital photography software. Built-in Google+ capabilities make it even more powerful to share your images with your friends and family."
Snapseed is a photo editor created by Nik Software, which was bought by Google (hence the "Google+ Snapseed"). Nik Software is known for its "insanely great (and yes, award-winning) technology and products for digital photography and imaging professionals," and I think Snapseed is an embodiment of their legacy. Snapseed's UI is very polished and professional, with a bit of the Google charm for good measure.
With a good number of different tools and filters, it's a pretty robust editor. Along with the basic "tap & apply" settings, each filter can be tweaked to be just right. There's tons of little customization possibilities built into each tool, and the app's help overlays are actually very helpful, to-the-point, and non-intrusive. One of my favorite tools is the "Selective Adjust," which allows for filters and tweaks to be applied to preset parts of an image.
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| Selective Adjust tool |
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| Help overlay |
Each preset filter has different styles and textures, and along with the basic editing tools, no 2 filtered images come out the same.
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| Style selection for a filter |
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| Basic editing tools |
Images can be saved or shared over the usual social networks and email (and Google+, of course). Google made a good buy with Nik Software. Snapseed isn't only for iOS, either! You can check out the desktop version on the Snapseed website. It looks fairly similar to the iOS version.
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