Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Google has been working towards making Chrome OS (what a Chromebook runs) compatible with Android Apps. I was recently able to download Snapseed to my HP Chromebook.

O.M.G. 😄😄

I don't have a smart phone so this is my first experience with the app. I cannot believe how much it will do. I'm reminded of the menus on Olympus cameras where you can just keep drilling down to find more options.

The other app I want to talk about is befunky. Available for online use only, the paid version ($35/year just learned it's now $60) has no ads and the editing tools are very extensive, including the ability to use layers (no masks, though, unfortunately) and selective edits.

As much as I love PS Elements and my Nik Collection plug-in, I foresee a time in the not too distant future where I leave Bill G and his Windows, and go with a Chromebook full time.

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Jack729 Loc: United States, planet earth, milky way galaxy

I have snapseed on my android - love it!
Great pics! 👍

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Feel free to post a photo to this topic and talk about your favorite editing tools.

Thanks for looking!

Jack729 Loc: United States, planet earth, milky way galaxy

That's me - taken with my phone, edited with my phone (snapseed).
I like the before/after toggle feature quite a bit, and the vignettes. Also like the healing brush (use that one allot). Ability to work off line, the way you slide to set each effect, etc. Just a great app.
I'm really surprised how versatile it is.
(I feel like I'm trying to sell it 😏)

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

It's great you enjoy the app so much; sounds like you know it well and are making full use. This topic is in PP Forum, so it's perfectly OK to "sell" a product

Thanks!

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Very nice treatments, Linda. Really nice processing.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

I have been using Snapseed for a long time,it's a pretty powerful editing app. Here is a tutorial list that you might find useful. As far as "befunky" well if it doesn't have the capability of using adjustment masks like Photoshop what good is it really? https://iphonephotographyschool.com/snapseed/ I have taken classes from IPhonphotography school. Learned a lot about how to use the phone camera as well as doing post editing on my phone.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Thanks for taking a look!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Thanks very much for your comments and the link. That looks like a great site.

I found a tutorial on lynda.com, and that's when I discovered one of the editing tools works poorly when a mouse is replacing a touch screen (that was addressed in an online article I read earlier about Android apps on Chromebooks also)

Adjustments (such as brightness, contrast and levels) can be made selectively on befunky. The reference I made to there not being masks applies to layers of files such as when using textures. One example would be if I wanted to mask a texture effect from the eyes of a critter.

Your time is much appreciated!

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

These smaller aps are very much a part of my processing, though almost exclusively when I'm using mobile devices (ipad and phone) which are my mainstays while traveling. I no longer haul a laptop around.

I use snapseed in much the same way I use NIK when I'm at home with my "real" computer. It is the mainstay of my plug-ins and I use a specific formula for most of my images that get fully edited for print or posting. The first image below, shot in Havana a few months ago, is an example of Snapseed as an adjunct to LRCC mobile on an ipad to achieve a mobile approximation of my signature "look".

The second image is from another ap that is becoming a mainstay, icolorama. It does layers on mobile, so I can add textures, masks, color treatments, art filters, just like in PS, using brushes to apply things where I want. It's cheap and it's immense. I know maybe 2% of what it will do.

The third image is done in a little mobile ap I absolutely love: distressed fx. If you are intrigued with textures but don't have PS, this is the ap for you. It has very simple controls to allow you to add textures (and even un-birds) and adjust them to suit.

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Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Very nice edits. I use all of these apps as well as Photoshop Mix witch will allow you to do layers and build composites.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Wonderful photos and information. Thanks Minnie! Alas (for me), it appears that distressed fx is only compatible with Apple devices.

In the meantime, I've been learning how to use stock photo frames a different way: changing layer blend modes and opacities. These are with befunky and were inspired by a main forum topic here

Appreciate your time and interest!

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Thanks. I use Mix too, along with some other Adobe mobile aps: Adobe Fix (which makes up for the abysmal healing tool in LRCC) & Adobe Capture, which is so odd it's hard to describe but fun. I keep reading that Adobe will have a full featured PS available for mobile before the year is out. Should be interesting.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

I'm not holding my breath that it will work. PS is a resource hog.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I think it will have to employ the kind of layers we get in Procreate, another one I'm trying to learn. I can't see it working on mobile with the kind of stacking and masking we now have in our "real" PS.