Google (NIK) Snapseed for Desktops is Now Dead

by Peter Walkowiak on 03/13/2013

Snapseed

Just now Google decided to sunset their Reader service and decided to add a bit of Snapseed to the mix. You’ll have to excuse me because at the moment I’m seeing red because Google Reader is a part of my life.

To focus on the photography related news Google has retired only the Desktop version of the app. Im not sure what the motive is behind this but it looks like Google is attempting to streamline. They are trying to cut out the excess services so they can focus their people. Before Google bought NIK my good friend was the head of Snapseed but he left after the acquisition This should put some fear in the hearts of those of us who still use NIK’s plugins as an essential part of our workflow.

The only good news that I can share with our readers is that the NIK team at the moment is still alive and kicking. As a part of the beta team I can tell you that the community is still actively working on making the products better.

Tagged as: google, nik, Snapseed

http://twitter.com/bitmatt Matt Young

Snapseed on Mac has become my go-to post (post) processing app, so this blows.
Mathias

Damn! I justrecently bought Snapseed (for Windows) and think it works even better as a desktop application than on a tablet. It is a great program as it is but I was hoping for some further development. Too bad, it’s really the only simple but powerful PP tool (that I know of).
John Reizian

Just saw a posting for “feedly” describing how Reader users can migrate to that program. Not a Reader user and not familiar with “feedly”, but it might be an alternative for you. A lot a pros and enthusiasts will be adversely impacted in Google undermines the Nik suite of plugins.
freediverx

Do no evil.
http://twitter.com/intensitystudio Antonio Carrasco

DO NOT LIKE!!!
The Snapseed desktop app for Mac was great for its simplicity and good results. Often I would export something out of Photoshop and mess with it in Snapseed and then bring it back to Photoshop.
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Drew

-666

Do No Evil, my arse.
Gary Rea

Well, I still have Snapseed (as well as HDR Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro 2) on my laptop and I have the disks they were installed from, and all still work just as beautifully as before, so…..??
http://twitter.com/PIZZAPARTY4EVER Francisco Marin

I’ve been on Google Reader since early ’08… just migrated over to Feedly a few days ago. I highly recommend it. It was incredibly easy to migrate and I actually think I like Feedly much more for its UI. Shame about Snapseed, I have the desktop client as well but rarely use it anymore. Now if Afterlight would just come out with a desktop client…