The Crop tool is pretty self-explanatory and comes with a bunch of aspect ratio formats. Structure is a coarser definition enhancement which is really good for adding punch to flat-looking images and is becoming increasingly popular in image-editing tools. The Details tool has two adjustments – one for regular sharpening and one for Structure. The Tune Image tool offers a whole bunch of everyday adjustments accessed by swiping down on the image.

If you’re using Photos on iOS, then you need to launch Snapseed first and tap the Open button top left – when you choose the Open from device option, you can browse through your albums. If you’re using Google Photos on your smart device you can find the photo you want, open it for editing and then choose Open in Snapseed from the drop-down menu in the top right corner. There are two ways to open images in Google Snapseed. In fact Google Snapseed is so good that it’s almost worth temporarily migrating images from desktop machines to a mobile device for editing and then sending them back.

The good news is, though, that the free mobile version is just as good and shows signs of a little more development effort than Google’s other Nik Software acquisition, the Google Nik Collection. It’s been out for a while, so this Google Snapseed 2 review isn’t news exactly, but it is a chance to take a close look at a mobile app which is not only free but also spectacularly good.Īnnoyingly, Google discontinued the desktop version, which was a terrific little photo-editor and effects generator. It’s the mobile version of an application first made for desktop machines by Nik Software and then taken over by Google along with the rest of the Nik applications. Snapseed 2 is the latest version of Google’s free photo-editing app for mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, iOS and Android. If only – IF ONLY – this was still available as a desktop app too. Snapseed combines a huge range of filters with some dazzling contemporary effects and an interface that’s perfectly design for small touchscreen devices. The fact that it’s free is just the icing on the cake. If Snapseed 2 was a paid-for app, it would still be getting a 5-star rating.

Snapseed review