But what I really love about Snapseed is its Center Focus and Tilt-Shift features. The Black & White editing tool lets you choose between five different color filters that alter the way the black and white image is rendered.

The filters names are more silly than descriptive-for instance, my favorite Vintage filter is Dexter, which gives a light green/gray tint to an image.

For example, you can change the texture of the filter and adjust texture strength, saturation, brightness, vignette, and filter strength. But Snapseed gives you the power to make fine adjustments to each filter, so you won’t get that cookie-cutter feel. The options in Vintage and Grunge are most similar to options available in other photo-filter apps such asĪnalog. You’ll find filters in the first four categories each has at least six preset filter options. The app’s Creative Adjustments are organized into seven categories: Black & White, Drama, Grunge, Vintage, Frames, Center Focus, and Tilt-Shift. Snapseed’s forte is those filters and special effects. (Of course, you aren’t restricted to editing your photos in this order.) After that, it’s all about the filters and special effects. Once you’re done with the basic edits, you can crop and straighten your photo, as well as use the Details tools, which include Sharpness and Structure.

(You can still tweak the sliders manually to make adjustments.) This is also where you’ll find Nik Software’s signature Control Point feature, which lets you make selective edits to your photo. You can also choose from six presets: Automatic, Neutral, Dark, Bright, Balanced, and Moody-each gives the image a slightly different tone or coloring, and when you click one, you’ll see the sliders move accordingly. You start with Tune Image, where you’ll find sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows, ambiance, and warmth. The editing features are organized in an intuitive order that’s generally how you’d approach editing an image.

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