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Photography has found a comfortable niche in the mobile market. As smartphone cameras have become more powerful, the software has advanced alongside, and today's Daily App reflects some of those advances.
Snapseed is a free and powerful photo editor app available on Google Play and
Nik specializes in photo editing software for nearly every platform, and that experience has translated well to their first and only mobile app. When started for the first time, Snapseed presents a visual tutorial on the functions of the app, highlighting each option's purpose. After loading or taking a photo, you can choose from a myriad of available filters and adjustments. Each setting is controllable by simple swipes; swiping up and down defines what kind (brightness, contrast, etc.) of change you are making, and swiping left or right defines the intensity of the change. This clever UI turns the usually arduous process of photo editing into something simple. Sharing photos is similarly leisurely, with sharing options accessible via a button on the app's main page.
Snapseed's natural-feeling UI coupled with the powerful photo editing software underneath serves to bolster its usefulness as a mobile photo editor. Those that enjoy photography for business or recreational purposes will be impressed with Snapseed's abilities. We tested Snapseed on Android, but the software's capabilities on iOS are equivalent.
PUBLISHED DEC. 13, 2012
