We are all not living in a best case scenario or rather in an optimal and perfect environment. Especially when you are traveling, on the road or just on a long hike we want to keep our carried baggage as light as possible, right?! Furthermore if you are also an enthusiastic photographer you need anyhow to consider a couple of additional equipment like lenses, tripod, filters, battery, etc. - wow, that is crazy ... and finally a heavy high performance laptop to edit and post process all your captured images in the field.
The great thing is that mobile phones and apps are getting pretty powerful these days with regard to performance and quality. For a long time, editing images on my phone was a laborious process that required me to use multipleĀ apps for different effects, depending on what I was trying to achieve. Until I found this amazing app ... yep, i am talking about "Snapseed" which changed completely my way of editing on the phone.
(Above image shot with: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge in pro mode)
You may be wondering what makesĀ Snapseed so valuable. Well, there are a few reasons ... first of all, it is very intuitive to use. It also supports a ton of functions, from cropping to highly selective adjustment like brightness, contrast and saturation, and, and, and. One professional feature is also the capability to read and edit RAW files, meaning you can recover more highlight and shadow information compared to a JPEG files... and guys, we are still talking here about a phone!
Enough said - I have prepared a short video as an inspiration how I use Snapseed for editing and post processing On-The-GO! That's one of my workflow and approach when I take pictures with my phone for example or rather import the RAW files from my DSLR camera directly to my phone.
A very informative read & video that really struck a chord with me. Have only started to take mobile editing seriously relatively recently, but it has transformed how I approach workflow when on the move, particularly of use when getting stuff prepped for social media posting. It still has some way to go, but is certainly moving in the right direction. Personally I use lightroom mobile for my mobile edits, and have not used Snapseed for a lot of years, in fact on an older Windows Mobile, but support stopped so stopped using it then.....it appears to have come a long way!!
Hi Khaled, incredible! Artists eye to be able to shade in the right areas as you do
You are really welcome Michael! :) It is indeed a very powerfull app ... and there is a great potential to improve the performance. Like you have mentioned - some features are still not available yet (like presets, graduated filter, etc.). But I am pretty convinced that the Snapseed developer are already working on those topics while we are talking here! ;-)
Thank you Khaled for this excellent short processing Tutorial. This is a great example how to improve your mobile shots on the go. High valuable for me, i have this app on my phone but never used it before, a hint to give it a try. Could you also create custom presets on Snapseed?