App of the week for journalists: Snapseed, for fast photo tweaking on the fly
An iPhone and iPad app for easy photo editing
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App of the week:
Phones:
iPhone / iPad
Cost:
£2.99
What is it?
A photo editing app that allows you to crop, straighten and enhance images from your phone.
How is it of use to journalists?
It's useful to be able to edit images on the fly, whether adding to a blog post, news story or sharing on social media.
The app has functions, including to allow you to crop, sharpen and straighten images; alter brightness, contrast, white balance; change to black and white, and add effects. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45696" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43144&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Snapseed2" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45697" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43145&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Snapseed1" width="250">
Snapseed also offers a desktop app (both for Mac and Windows) priced at £13.99 / €15.95.
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Written by
Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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