There are some other free editing applications like Raw Therapee and The (very poorly named) GIMP.Snapseed, on the other hand, is free and is quite easy to learn.

The well-known editing applications like Lightroom, Photoshop and CaptureOne are expensive and have a steep learning curve It’s the not-fun, frustrating part of photography. For many photographers editing is the bane of their existence.Snapseed will not save edits in a metadata-readable format like XMP for sharing in other desktop editing applications like Lightroom.It will access cloud drives (e.g., Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Google Drive) It will not access local drives on the Windows PC.Dex can also be used on Mac computers running OS 10.13 and higher.

Dex can be used with either Windows 7, or Windows 10 (not 8).

It’s also possible with Samsung devices that can make use of the Samsung Dex app.

using WiFi the connection can be laggy depending on the speed of the WiFi network.

both the mobile device and the PC have to be connected to the same WiFi network.

It’s possible using the Windows Your Phone app and Link to Windows on the mobile device.

It’s only possible with Samsung Galaxy phones running Android 9, or later (other phone manufacturers may be possible later).

It’s only possible (as far as I know) on Windows 10 with the October 2019 feature update (i.e., not earlier versions of Windows, nor Mac computers) if using Link to Windows.

There are a couple ways to use Snapseed on a desktop though, with some limitations. Lamentably, there is no desktop version of Snapseed. Non-compatible camera RAW formats can be converted to DNG using the Adobe DNG Converter. I can confirm that it will not open RAW files from the Nikon Z6. A list of compatible camera RAW formats is available on the Google Snapseed site.

I dig deeper into Snapseed in my book The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Photography (it’s a good book, you should buy it ? ). It’s quite good and has a lot of useful features as well as some of the fun filters and overlays. Snapseed is a popular photo editing app from Google that’s available for both Apple and Android mobile devices. You can get Snapseed to work on a Windows (and Mac) Desktop.

Snapseed for mac 2020