Snapseed II

When it comes to creativity in photography, there are lots of options, both in camera and post-processing. In a post earlier this summer, I discussed a new app available for iPads (and possibly smartphones, but not desktop or laptop computers). It's called Snapseed and has an amazing array of special effects, most of which are fine-tunable by the photographer.

While India is a blaze of color, the simplicity in me likes the opportunity to boil an image down to its essentials. So, starting with a vibrant color photo, it took only a few adjustments in Snapseed to truly get down to the basics - almost a line drawing.  As with any photo of a person, the eyes probably matter the most, and that's obvious here.  I did not do selective work (meaning a different degree of adjustment on the eyes versus other elements of the photo), but rather and overall adjustment applied to the whole photo.  I love the result. Hopefully you will too!

Great Photo App

While I primarily process my photographs using Adobe Lightroom which has amazing capabilities, I've come across an iPhone/iPad app that's pretty amazing in and of itself.  Its called Snapseed, and it is quick to learn and really easy to use. I took one of my favorite coastal photographs, shot in color with my Nikon D300 and transferred it to my iPad. I then converted it to black and white and used the yellow filter to bring "snap" to the final photograph.  And like all good photo software, when I saved it, Snapseed created a new file and didn't override the original color photo.  While I'm still really happy with the color version, the B+W version is pretty cool as well.  The app is free is available for for both iPad/iPhone and Android users.  It was available at one time for PCs/Macs but that version is no longer available. Too bad.