Questions come to our editorial office, where they ask to share convenient photo processing programs for Instagram and other social networks. In this article, Yulia Lisitsyna, author of the blog Men, will share the results of testing the app Snapseed (Capsid) from Google.
Snapseed photo editor features
Free application
You are not tormented by banner ads and pop-UPS. Do not offer to subscribe or pay for each next step. In short, the program is not accompanied by common disadvantages of free applications. And therefore, safely carry this property to the positive.
Support for different operating systems
Google developers did not give preference to any one operating system, and created a package not only for Apple products, but also for Android holders. Moreover, if your device is running Windows XP, you are also lucky.
Interface
When you first look at the program, your eyes run away from the abundance of icons. But this is not just a field with chipped squares. Icons are divided into 2 subgroups: tools and filters. And after a couple of minutes you feel quite comfortable.
The tools in Snapseed
How to use Snapseed?
Photo correction tools and Techniques
Standard method
The standard methods of photo correction, I will carry the correction of brightness, contrast, shadows, saturation. Also, crop and rotate the photo.
Here same, correct well convenient corrector prospects on the picture (for example, often meet littered with homes or trees on the edges of the photo). Move the slider to change the angle, and the program cuts the resulting irregularities.
White Balance Correction
This feature will please many, I'm sure of it! Long live white as white, not a shade of green, yellow or blue, right? "Snapid" makes the correction in three ways:
automatically — everything is clear here;
by changing the temperature and hue of the photo. Useful when you consciously want to get a certain color tone;
pointwise. By moving the tool to the desired part of the picture, you assign this piece of " white color "and the program a special algorithm" corrects " the remaining colors.
Brushes
I'll be honest - it was my favorite. The developers have made 4 types of brushes:
dodge & burn-darken and lighten images;
exposure-what is usually added or subtracted on the camera to avoid underexposure and overexposure;
temperature-conditionally, adding yellow (warm tones) or blue (cold tones);
saturation-this brush will add paint to individual objects or Vice versa, discolor them, turn into b/W.
Have all brushes changing, say so, "force push" in 5 steps. For example, exposure is +0.7;+0.3; Eraser (if you overdid it); -0.3; -0.7. This is enough for sufficient correction of the photo.
Features of the program Snapseed
Still developers added "mask". When you click on the icon with a peephole, the red color shows the surface treated with a brush, and the intensity of their processing. This is useful when you need to adjust something very large, or Vice versa, small.
Selective correction
When specify concrete color on a fragment of a photo and on it changes (brightness, contrast, saturation and structure) of this color on all photo. For example, we took the red color and removed the saturation to a minimum. Now on all photo red color faded. Think of why you might need it?
Point correction
Remove unnecessary spots, columns, notches and pimples. Done like "healing" brush in my any Photoshop.
Vignette and text
Think there is no sense detail to dwell. Everything is clear. I will only say that the vignette is white and black, of different intensity.
And the Text tab allows you to write:
Simply the text-8 species.
Text with stripes and hearts on top and bottom-8 types.
The text in frames 8 species.
Text separated by a bar — 8 types.
The text, a La cartoons-6 species.
The color and transparency of labels change.
Snapseed photo processing
Working with curves
Curves-the ability to change colors, brightness, contrast photos almost beyond recognition, but very thin, like to do jewelry cut. It's an incredibly interesting tool, but it takes practice. Developers even allowed to change each color separately!
Filters
Snapseed has 13 filters:
Degradation
HDR effect
Large grain
Glitter glow
Drama
Tonal contrast
Grunge
Retro
B/W
Vintage
Hyap
Persons
Framework
Each of them can be customized to your taste and color. But I'll tell you about that another time.
Conservation
The developers have made it possible to save files in three ways.
Saving with the ability to undo changes. The original file is overwritten.
Saves a copy of the original file with the ability to undo previous changes.
Saves a copy of the file without the possibility of changes.
Snapseed-photo editor by Google
Disadvantages of instrumental parts Snapseed
Disadvantages of the text tab
The main disappointment is the Text tab. At first glance, the abundance of options pleases, but only a person using the Latin alphabet will feel them. Russified fonts are few, they are simple and standard as Ariel. Use, of course, can be, but choice short.
Reversibility of changes
It is not always obvious how to Undo (undo step). In some places, this is achieved by simply canceling the entire action. In the case of the Brush tab, an Eraser is used. Okay, but the Eraser and the Undo aren't the same.
Summary
Despite some disappointments, I think Snapseed application for processing photos for Instagram and other social networks, at the moment one of the most successful.
Tried to work in Snapseed? Were you comfortable in it? Tell us about your favorite programs (editors) for photo processing.