You need to master the ‘horizontal swipe’ to choose the amount of a property (or setting, if you will) that you want to apply to a tool such as Ambiance. Interestingly, there is no equivalent single tool in Lightroom or Photoshop.

The best explanation is that the Ambiance adjustment lightens up shadows without disturbing the deep blacks. Truth be told, no user in the photographic community seems to know ‘exactly’ what it does. Who doesn’t want ambiance in their pictures? Most often, I am fairly satisfied with the Auto Adjust outcome after it finishes.īut I’ve discovered that the Auto Adjust never changes the property called Ambiance, and I always want to change that. However, a phone will work fine for the four edits we will discuss in this guide. I prefer to use my iPad rather than my iPhone for editing, because the phone screen is so small. The tools appear to be identical in both versions. There is no version for desktop computing although, it appears that Google will soon be rolling out a version of Snapseed that will operate within their Chrome browser.Īpple and Android devices manage files in a somewhat different way, so there are some differences in opening and saving files on the apps. It must be used on your smartphone or tablet device. The Snapseed app has both the Apple and Android versions. This feature occurs because the edits do not change the original digital pixels, which is what happens when you use a destructible software application or technique. What the term ‘non-destructible’ means is that when you save the edit, you can get back to any step in the edit at a later date and even start over (go back to the original) with a complete ‘revert.’ Lightroom edits are also non-destructible while Photoshop edits are destructible, unless you use the advanced technique of layers or perform the edits in the ACR camera processing window prior to moving the image into Photoshop.

Snapseed tutorial