Using the Add (a circle with a plus sign along the bottom of the screen), a spot is selected. Snapseed absolutely comes into it’s own when the Selective Adjust is used. These include Filter Strength, Saturation, Brightness, Texture Strength, Centre Size and so on. Although the latter set are an automated looks, they do offer several Styles and variables that can be adjusted, with each filter having it’s own applicable set. The second page brings more set filters Black and White, Vintage, Drama, Grunge, Centre Focus and Frames.
This set gives absolute control on the processing. It’s so natural, simple and intuitive, with so much fine control that the user interface is simply a work of pure genius.Īfter the image is loaded into Snapseed, there are two sets of adjustments available the first set are Automatic, Selective Adjustment, Tune Image, Straighten and Rotate and Crop. This way one can very quickly run through the adjustments needed and set a value. User control is basically based around an up or down swipe for choosing an adjustment and a side swipe for a plus or minus value (or strength value, depending on the adjustment chosen). The touch interface works so well, that within minutes of using it, the most complex of image processing is done in a matter of seconds. This App is practically why the iPad was invented. Snapseed has just taken the bar set previously and raised it by a phenomenal amount. As I covered in a previous article, there are already some great image processing Apps available and once these mature and the iPad becomes more powerful and hopefully gets built in USB or an SD card reader, it will definitely become a tool more capable of image processing for the pro on the go. It was already a great piece of equipment to use as a portfolio for photographs and video, as well as a great tool for researching stories and reading newspapers and magazines via the various Apps available. The iPad is definitely heading to becoming an ideal tool for photographers. To my utter amazement, Nik has managed to bring a version of this to the iOS (Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) platform and it’s called Snapseed. It made the process much more natural and saved time with it’s point, click and slide approach. One such example is Nik Software’s Viveza plugin which did away needing complicated layers and masks for colour image processing. Once in a while, a company comes up with a product that just amazes me and once I begin using it, wonder how on earth I ever did without it.
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