My First Edit on Snapseed Desktop App by NIK Software: Way to Go Guys
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
Category: Adobe Lightroom, Childrens Portraits, Photography | Tags: announcements, applications, Children, nik software, photo editing, Photography, snapseed 6 comments »
R. J. Kern Says:
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
Jared Platt Says:
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.
Michael Stevenson Says:
Where did you read that it was coming to Windows soon? I love this on my iPad.. need it on my PC!
admin Says:
According to the NIK web site, the PC version is forth coming. Right now, it is just on MAC.
maria nissen Says:
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.
maria nissen Says:
oops: “happened upon Snapseed”