I am not a professional photographer, but Snapseed certainly has professional-grade capabilities from my perspective. I was first struck by the fact that this is not another amateur photo editing app. I downloaded the app and immediately started to play with it. I’m allowed one mistake a year, right? (This counts for 2012 since I wrote this on 12/23 just so we are clear.)

The app boasts more than 9 million users so its likely many of you reading this are laughing at me for just now learning about this app, but that’s OK. Nik Software was founded in 1995 and Snapseed won Apple’s iPad App of the Year award in 2011. They have a number of other apps and tools, all photo editing related. They acquired it when they purchased Nik Software.”įirst of all, thanks Christopher for letting me know! I checked it out and sure enough, Nik Software created an app called Snapseed and was acquired by Google back in September. It appears they may already have! Reader Christopher Johnson was great to point out that, “Google has a photo sharing app, it’s called Snapseed. We have mentioned how Flickr has been quietly improving their app to gain more market share, and we wondered when Google+ would get into the game. Twitter now has their own photo sharing and editing capabilities, while Facebook-owned Instagram no longer supports embedding images in tweets. Facebook and Twitter have decided that they’re in direct competition for the same user base, specifically, the photo-sharing users, and have engaged in what we are calling The PhotoWars. We have talked a lot recently about Instagram / Facebook vs.

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