If you have not used Snapseed on your iPhone or iPad, you are missing out on the best mobile device photography application on the planet. The program is made by NIK Software. The biggest problem with the app was that I could only use it on my mobile device. Well, all of that has changed. Now it is available on the desktop computer on the Mac AppStore. Don’t worry, those of you who are still using the abacus-I mean a PC, it will be coming soon.
This is my second photo made with the desktop application. I love it. It feels just like the mobile app, and it also handles RAW photos.
About the photo: We went out into the pecan groves in Gilbert, Arizona with our good friend Brandt, Brandt Photography to take a family portrait. While we were there, I got this shot of the kids waiting to have their portrait taken in their winter animal hats.
Way to go NIK Software! You make great stuff.
Photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography
Location: Gilbert, Arizona
HI,
Im looking into getting this app for my mac.
Is it possible to export finished images at 300dpi, so they are high enough to print large?
Abbey H
Snapseed on both the iPhone and the Mac App keeps the image file at the original image size. So if you open a 300 DPI 8×10 image in Snapseed, when you save the image, you will have a 300 DPI 8×10 image. It is still a JPG. I have been on them to allow for different file types, like a TIFF, but that is not an option at this time.
oops: “happened upon Snapseed”
I just snap seed yesterday in the app store and wondered about it. So glad you did a review. I might just take the $19.99 leap! Thanks.
Where did you read that it was coming to Windows soon? I love this on my iPad.. need it on my PC!
According to the NIK web site, the PC version is forth coming. Right now, it is just on MAC.
Good question RJ. The use of the effect on the photo is not intended to be the natural skin tone you would expect, but rather the effect is placed on the image as a natural effect on the paper that one would see over time, as paper shift and the silvers oxidize and the effect on film as one processes them differently (i.e. cross processing, etc). So when I use an effect like this, I am thinking more about the paper and chemicals in the traditional process. Now that we are in a digital world, we don’t see these things happen naturally to our photos that often, so we sometimes tell two stories: one is the story in the photo itself and the other is the story of the print over time. By showing age in the print, I suggest to the viewer that the photo was taken many years ago and that they are seeing the passage of time by looking at the photo itself.
Love your enthusiasm for technology!!! Thanks for sharing. I am curious as your thoughts on exactly why this is the best mobile device photo app on the planet. Details, please share! Curious on your thought process in choosing the blue skin tones on the above photo… doesn’t look like your typical work nor match in my mind’s eye of what real skin tone should look like 🙂