Snapseed - iPhone and MacBook Air

[jparker402]

Just started watching a YouTube video on using Snapseed to edit photos on the iPhone. I send my iPhone photos to Photos in my MacBook Air and, if I am particularly interested in enhancing the photo, I do my editing with the MacBook Photos app. I gather in watching this iPhone photo video so far, that the idea of Snapseed is to do all the editing on the iPhone. I find myself at a loss understanding why I would want to do that all on the iPhone and, I guess, store all my photos on the iPhone. I guess I am having a hard time picturing (no pun intended) the relationship of editing and storing between iPhone, Photos and maybe even iCloud. Was wondering if anyone could put this into focus for me? Thanks!

 

[mollyc]

Snapseed is really meant for actual phone photos. Lots of people use their phone as their only camera.

 

[iluvmacs99]

Just started watching a YouTube video on using Snapseed to edit photos on the iPhone. I send my iPhone photos to Photos in my MacBook Air and, if I am particularly interested in enhancing the photo, I do my editing with the MacBook Photos app. I gather in watching this iPhone photo video so far, that the idea of Snapseed is to do all the editing on the iPhone. I find myself at a loss understanding why I would want to do that all on the iPhone and, I guess, store all my photos on the iPhone. I guess I am having a hard time picturing (no pun intended) the relationship of editing and storing between iPhone, Photos and maybe even iCloud. Was wondering if anyone could put this into focus for me? Thanks!

Nik Software created Snapseed as an iPad app in 2011, won an award, and it later created the iPhone version a year later with desktop versions following for Windows and Mac. I still use the desktop version of Snapseed on my Mac Pro and I got it with my Nik package as part of my former professional photography work. When Google bought Snapseed off Nik, Google made it exclusively a phone app.

During the time when Snapseed was created, photos were still mainly taken with a traditional digital camera, because the cameras on the 3GS, 4 and 4S weren't all that great still. It's nothing like what you can get off an iPhone 12 and Pro models today.

Today people simply find the phone convenient taking photos and that's how Apple sets things up, focusing the phone as the only computer to edit images. For the majority of people, this is good enough. For a few of us, the desktop or laptop with better software is needed. Who knows; 10 years from now, you can have something more powerful like the M1 inside an iPhone with a flip screen that can turn into a small tablet allowing you to edit and use AI neural engine to do what my Mac Pro with a GPU and Topaz AI software do on images today.

 

[Clix Pix]

I rarely edit images on the iPhone; when I shoot something that I want to share or keep, I airdrop it to my computer and then edit it in one of the programs I use when editing images from my digital cameras. I don't use Photos at all, I handle my images differently. This all works well for me! I do have Snapseed, come to think of it, as an app on the iPhone but haven't used it in a long time.

 

[Ray2]

As hard as some of us may find it, the majority of people around the world have neither camera other than the one in their phone nor a computer. Around the world includes the USA.

 

[Slartibart]

By the way: you can still get the 2012 free dxo Nik collection here - Google made them available for free after acquiring dxo Nik Software back then and developing the newer versions of Snapseed for Android and iOS.

EDIT: factual correction

 

[Clix Pix]

By the way: you can still get the 2012 free dxo Nik collection here - Google made them available for free after acquiring dxo back then and developing the newer versions of Snapseed for Android and iOS.

To set the record straight: Google does not own DXO.

"DxO is a French company dedicated to photography. Founded in 2006, it is located in ... DxO acquired Nik Collection from Google on October 25, 2017, and it was first released as a DxO product, Nik Collection 2018, on June 6, 2018."

I have the current DXO NIK Collection and it is excellent, offers much more than the older free version, which I had used previously. It serves as either a standalone or a plugin for DXO's PhotoLab image processing software as well as for Photoshop and other editing programs.

 

[Slartibart]

To set the record straight: Google does not own DXO.

"DxO is a French company dedicated to photography. Founded in 2006, it is located in ... DxO acquired Nik Collection from Google on October 25, 2017, and it was first released as a DxO product, Nik Collection 2018, on June 6, 2018."

I have the current DXO NIK Collection and it is excellent, offers much more than the older free version, which I had used previously. It serves as either a standalone or a plugin for DXO's PhotoLab image processing software as well as for Photoshop and other editing programs.

You are right. Google bought Nik Software the makers of Snapseed, developed the Android and iOS versions and made the 2012 Nik Collection freely available. In 2017 DxO bought the Nik Collection from Google. The 2012 Nik Collection is still available for free. ?

 

[Clix Pix]

I really like Silver Efex Pro -- it does amazing things with a B&W image! DXO has added a few more presets and more functionality to the entire NIK collection which makes it worth paying for these days.

 

[ericwn]

I really like Snapseed, it’s like an on the go version of the old NIK suite wrapped in a mobile app - probably used a lot in iPhone and iPad centric photo workflows - not everyone wants to edit on a laptop or desktop computer.