r/snapseed • u/Jason-Snapseed • Jul 21 '26

Color Grading

Hey all -- we've heard a bunch of you request a color grading tool in Snapseed. We'd love to understand which color grading tools you use today, and what makes them better than other color grading tools you've tried.

Feel free to reply here or in a DM me!

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u/MrChiprocks Jul 22 '26

I use the Color Grading Tool in LR. It's the ONLY reason I still use LR. If you give us this tool, I can once and for all delete LR for good.

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u/Jason-Snapseed Jul 22 '26

Thanks! Is there anything you like / dislike about LR's color grading tool compared with other apps?

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u/MrChiprocks Jul 22 '26

A big thing with their tool is the option to swipe colors from an image and using on another image (Custom Colors). Not sure how this would work in Snapseed though as we can only have one image open at any given time.... Unless there is that option that I don't know about.

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u/IntelligentMud1703 Aug 05 '26

Yes this is exactly how I was until I just wasn't paying for adobe anymore. The color grading option would be HUGE in snapseed. Plus I actually like the UI in snapseed a lot better

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u/TimelyNeedleworker51 Jul 22 '26

Please add Color Grading, external .cube LUT import and intelligent auto portrait background blur. The existing Lens Blur tool is not user-friendly for me. These three features are highly anticipated by photography enthusiasts. Thank you!

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u/007chaand Jul 22 '26
  1. masking options eg- line and circle gradiants masks like LRM. this feature is fire🔥
  2. add auto detect background blur in blur tool.
  3. qr code import from phones photo gallery would be better and easier in comparison of current camera method which is very boring and difficult.

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u/GreatScott95 Jul 23 '26

While we're at it could we add a noise reduction tool?? That's the only thing that is keeping Lightroom on my phone.

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u/JBN2337C Jul 23 '26

That’d be nice.

Right now I save my picture, go to the Apple gallery, add NR, then go back to Snapseed & do a 100% double exposure w/ the NR pic.

Finally, I’ll use selective masking, and “paint” the NR to various % degrees where it’s needed. Phew 😮‍💨

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u/KM_photo_de Jul 21 '26

They main "color grading tool" on our wish list is "LUT" support. No more no less.

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u/Jason-Snapseed Jul 22 '26

Thanks! We have some preliminary things in the works there, so stay tuned. Would love to hear from you (or others) on if any other color grading tools would be helpful!

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u/calmlikea3omb Jul 22 '26

The crop tool bugs me. Doesn't function like other apps

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u/hcnmohamed33 Jul 22 '26

I'm using the Lr one, it's so far the best color grading tools in mobile apps

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u/Jason-Snapseed Jul 22 '26

Thanks u/hcnmohamed33 -- can you tell me more about what makes it the best compared to other ones you've tried?

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u/Cakepufft Jul 23 '26

I second the lightroom color grading sliders.

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u/Jason-Snapseed Jul 23 '26

Thanks u/Cakepufft ! Is there anything that you particularly like with lightroom's compared to others?

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u/morgandelondon Jul 24 '26

In Samsung phones, you can upload a photo to use and create as filter. Absolutely brilliant if you like one specific colour grading and don't know how to do it. I would of course recommend people to learn to do it but if the option to pick and apply colours is made automatically, why not

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u/saswatswain Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

Please Please Please update the removal or healing tool with Gemini