Snapseed's Selective Tool: The Secret to Precision Photo Masking

Ever wonder how mobile editors control exactly where their edits land? The answer is Snapseed's Selective Tool — and in this tutorial I'll show you exactly how it works. The Selective Tool is one of the most useful features in Snapseed from Google for landscape and travel photographers. It lets you target changes to Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, or Structure to one specific region of your image — no complicated masking required. In Adobe Photoshop vocabulary, we'd call this Masking. Snapseed's Selective Tool uses an advanced variation of the U-Point color selection algorithm originally developed by the Nik Software company. When you place a Control Point with the Selective Tool on your image, Snapseed from Google creates a soft feathered mask that automatically expands out to include contiguous pixels with a similar color or tone to the one that you selected. In plain English, the Snapseed App automatically generates an elegant mask for you whenever you create a new Control Point. As you'll see in the video tutorial above, we can use these soft masks to push and pull our viewer's attention around our image and ultimately lock their attention onto our subject. Master the Selective Tool and you'll unlock a whole new level of control in your mobile photography! ------------ Learn Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom for Mobile, Snapseed from Google, and more with our complete video training courses at https://focusphotoschool.com. FocusPhotoSchool.com subscribers receive unlimited access to hundreds of in-depth video tutorials from Adobe Certified Lightroom and Photoshop Expert David Marx. Visit our website today to take your photography to the next level!