![]() The Export function gives you the option to save a copy with changes you can undo, or simply save with permanent changes. Unlike other photo editing apps, Snapseed doesn’t store your photos in the app itself, so it’s crucial that you export or save a copy so that you have a version of your edited photo. When you’re finished, simply use the Export button. Just make sure that you click through the edits once again to get back to your current step in the process. If, at any time during the editing process, you want to go back to a previous step in the process, use the Undo button and then click “View Edits.” This will bring up a list of all the edits you’ve made and give you the ability to go back and make further changes, or even delete certain steps altogether. Snapseed also features tools to adjust White Balance, artificially Expand the borders of your image, add filters and manipulate the coloring of your photo (Drama, HDR Scape, Retrolux, Grunge, etc.), artificially create Lens Blur, add Text or a Vignette/Frame, and create a Double Exposure shot. The tools detailed above are just the start. ![]() Take a look at the different versions of the photo below, which have been edited using the number 4 vintage filter, L01 grain filter, and the neutral B&W filter respectively. Finally, Black & White transforms your colorful images into shades of gray, with various options such as “Bright,” “Dark,” “Film,” and many more depending on your personal B&W preferences. It’s possible to increase both the grain and the style strength with each filter. Grainy Film, obviously adds grain, with different color options than the Vintage tool. Vintage offers multiple coloring options, with the ability to edit the brightness, saturation, style strength, and vignette strength with each. Much like Instagram’s filter function, these three tools all allow you to manipulate the coloring of your image. On the other hand, with Selective you can target certain sections of the image by adding dots and then manipulating the brightness, saturation, structure, or contrast. ![]() With Brush, you can target a certain part of the photo using your finger as the “brush” to make adjustments to whatever element of the photo you want. BRUSH & SELECTIVEīoth of these functions allow you to edit a specific part of an image, but in slightly different ways. Tonal Contrast allows you to bring out the contrasts in the high, middle, and low tones in a photo, or prevent details in the shadows or highlights from being lost. To emphasize the high or low tones in your image, use the sliding scale in the Tonal Contrast tool. In the image below, see how I’ve used the Perspective tool to adjust the skewed lines of the pillars in the Cathedral. If any lines in your image are off, or if you were standing slightly off-center, this function will help. Perspective allows you to manipulate and edit the perspective of your photo - by tilting it vertically or horizontally, or by using the free-moving function. PERSPECTIVEĪgain, this tool’s function is in its name. This is also the function to use if you need to rotate your image by 90-degree increments. No more staring at a photo until you’re blue in the face and wondering if it’s perfectly straight. Rotate takes any image and automatically straightens it. ROTATEĪside from Tune, this might just be the best tool on the app. Snapseed offers fixed square, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 7:5, and 16:9 frames, as well as the option to freely crop your image. As with Tune, use the sliding scale to increase or decrease the strength of each function. Sharpening increases the overall sharpness of your shot, while Structure is a contrast adjustment. It consists of two different sliding scale functions: Sharpening and Structure. Take a look at the image sets below to see how it’s possible to edit your photos with Tune.Īptly named, this tool exists to help you bring out the details of your photo. By using the Tune function, it’s possible to create a more balanced image. Each works on a sliding scale, letting users move the degree of change to the positive or negative side of zero (which is the look of your original image). Tune allows you to change visual elements of your photo including the brightness, contrast, saturation, ambiance, highlights, shadows, and warmth. The Tune function is arguably the most useful in the Snapseed app. With many of the functions, especially those that deal with the editing of the photo itself (and not the filter or coloring), Snapseed either offers an auto-adjustment based on what it thinks is best (Perspective, Tune, etc.) or automatically performs the function for you (Rotate). Below, I’ve detailed how some of the most basic functions can come in handy. The second tab is “Tools,” which opens a menu of functions that you can use to edit your photo.
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