Your phones camera is more powerful than ever, but it is far from foolproof.
Heres a quick guide to how Snapseed can help make your photos shine.
What is Snapseed?
Snapseed is Googles free photo-editing app for Android and iOS.
It offers a variety of options for tweaking your pics.
What can you do with Snapseed?
Snapseed gives you access to both basic and advanced tools for editing a picture.
Snapseed stands apart from other apps thanks to its advanced featuresstuff youd typically find in high-end photography software.
Lets take a look at a few examples of how you could use the app.
Since pictures are two-dimensional, Snapseed cant unearth hidden details thatwould have been otherwise visible from another perspective.
For example, pretend you have a picture of a mountain.
Due to… circumstances, you couldnt shoot it from the center.
Snapseed will intelligently expand the elements at the borders and reproduce the shot from the angle you desire.
This tool, as youd expect, wont produce accurate results in more complex situations.
But here, it does the job perfectly.
The Expand tool can be found right next to the Perspective tool within Snapseed.
Once youve imported your file, select Expand and drag the handle of the edge youd like to extend.
Your first step should be to zoom in the area you want to edit.
Healing works best when you use it as if cleaning a wound.
Gently dab several times over the object until Snapseed figures out whats in the background and deletes the object.
It can take some trial and error to understand how to control the Healing tool.
(confirm you take care of all the resulting smudges, too.)
Fixing awkward faces in photos
Snapseed has a solution for your frowning or absent-minded faces, too.
Once thats done, simply move the head to a different position.
Under the Adjust tab, you will have access to the Pupil Size, Smile and Focal Length sliders.
The edit stack also makes it possible to effortlessly perform a range of advanced photography tricks.
Return to the home page and tap the little stack icon at the top.
Select View edits and double-tap the blue box labeled Text.
This will bring your text to full opacity.
Set the brush opacity to zero by tapping the downward arrow four times.
Zoom into the area you want to hide some of the text and brush over it.
This will partially camouflage the characters.
Once youre content with the look youve achieved, hit the tick button.
