Snapseed is definitely our favourite mobile photography editor, with a plethora of features hidden behind an interface that never feels overwhelming. And now its getting even better.
The 2.1 update to the Snapseed app on Android brings the ability to process RAW images right on your handset. RAW images are shots taken in a totally uncompressed format, like what you might get out of a DSLR camera. This gives you more latitude to tweak the values after you've taken the picture, regaining details that might be lost when it's compressed down to a basic jpg format.
After the update you'll be able to open DNG files and play with them to your heart's content, right on your smartphone screen. Now bear in mind the demands of tweaking a huge photo might cause some slowdown, depending on your handset.
As for how you get those photos in the first place, that's a bit tougher. You can of course email an image from your fancy point and shoot or DSLR, though you'll have to convert them if you're shooting on Canon or Nikon as they use their own file format. On the other hand, some smartphones from HTC and OnePlus do natively shoot RAW images and you can just load them up for editing.
One thing to note is that RAW images take up a lot more space than jpgs. We're talking 10 or 20 times as much space for each and every photo, and that doesn't include saving and working on multiple iterations of new files. If you're planning on going the RAW root, be sure you've got the storage to handle it.
The latest update for Snapseed on Android is available here now.
Source: Snapseed gets RAW photo editing
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SAN DIEGO and LAS VEGAS, Oct. 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) ( www.miteksystems.com) a leading innovator of mobile capture and identity solutions, will demonstrate the addition of facial recognition capabilities to the company's instant ID document verification solution, Photo Verify™. These two factors of authentication help businesses optimize the mobile channel for customer acquisition and payments while mitigating risk. "With Photo Verify and facial recognition, businesses can quickly and easily verify that a mobile user's identity document is authentic and that they are the person pictured on that document," said Michael Hagen, managing director and corporate ID strategist, Mitek. See the Live Demo at Money 20/20 Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. PTTrack 5: Product Announcements - Session: 4In addition to presenting at Money20/20, Mitek will also be exhibiting in booth 1743 on the expo hall floor. Availability Photo Verify is now available for organizations that wish to be absolutely certain that the document presented in a mobile transaction is an authentic, unaltered, government issued document. For more information on Photo Verify or to become a beta customer for the facial recognition technology, please call Mitek sales at 858.309.1704 or email sales@miteksystems.com. About Mitek Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) is the leading innovator of mobile capture and identity solutions for customer acquisition. Mitek's mobile photo technology enables consumers to use the Camera as a Keyboard™ to reduce friction for mobile check deposit, account opening, insurance quoting, payments, and ID document authentication. This innovative m obile technology is licensed by more than 4,100 organizations and used by tens of millions of consumers. In June of 2015, Mitek acquired IDchecker, a global provider of cloud based identity document verification and facial recognition solutions. The acquisition broadens Mitek's global presence, expands document coverage to more than 3,500 document types and adds international customers in payments, financial services and information services. www.miteksystems.com Follow Mitek on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mitek-systems-inc.Follow Mitek on Twitter: @miteksystemsConnect with Mitek on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MitekSystemsSee Mitek on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/miteksystemsRead Mitek's latest blog post: http://www.miteksystems.com/blog 
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) ( www.miteksystems.com), a leading innovator of mobile capture and identity solutions, today announced that Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, has released an IT Market Clock report on Mobile Imaging for Banks, and the benefits associated with transitioning many back-office banking operations to a mobile self-service environment using their customer's mobile devices. The report is dated August 31, 2015 and authored by research director Stessa B. Cohen. The report examines Mobile Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) for retail and commercial markets as well as a broad range of additional mobile imaging use cases, including new account opening and Know Your Customer (KYC) authentication. All of the cited use cases involve capturing paper-based data with the camera of a smartphone or tablet to bring that data into an electronic transactional workflow in order to reduce costs associ ated with these customer interactions. "This is Gartner's first IT Market Clock report on mobile imaging and highlights the enormous value mobile imaging can bring to banks by enabling them to support many back-office workflows and business processes using their own customer's mobile devices," said James B. DeBello, president and CEO of Mitek. "The quick adoption of mobile check deposit by these same retail banking customers highlights the readiness of customers to use their mobile devices in more of a self-service manner. Beyond improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs, mobile imaging facilitates the digital transformation of existing back-end processes and transactions and underscores our excitement about the growing market opportunity for our new solutions." Mitek offers multiple mobile imaging solutions to support the transition of many back-office banking operations to mobile self-service. Mitek's award winning Photo Fill™ offers advanced mobile imaging for customer acquisition and other workflows with its intuitive use of the Camera as a Keyboard™. Photo Verify™ enables banks and other organizations to meet KYC requirements using mobile imaging for ID document authentication. Both solutions offer the same popular user experience as Mobile Deposit, the dominant Mitek check deposit solution, licensed by more than 4,100 banks and loved by more than 50 million users. About MitekHeadquartered in San Diego, CA, Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) is the leading innovator of mobile capture and identity solutions for customer acquisition. Mitek's mobile photo technology enables consumers to use the Camera as a Keyboard™ to reduce friction for mobile check deposit, account opening, insurance quoting, payments, and ID document authentication. This innovative mobile technology is licensed by more than 4,100 organizations and used by tens of millions of consumers. In June of 2015, Mitek acquired IDchecker, a global provider of cloud based identity document verification and facial recognition soluti ons. The acquisition broadens Mitek's global presence, expands document coverage to more than 3,500 document types and adds international customers in payments, financial services and information services. www.miteksystems.com Follow Mitek on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mitek-systems-incFollow Mitek on Twitter: @miteksystemsConnect with Mitek on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MitekSystemsSee Mitek on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/miteksystemsRead Mitek's latest blog post: http://www.miteksystems.com/blog 
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Travellers on the Rajdhani Express, by Chirodeep Chaudhuri, shot on a Nokia Lumia 1020. Chaudhuri hopped onboard the cellphone camera bandwagon a little more than a year ago
Ronny Sen shot this photograph, of coalminers' children waiting for their parents to return at Jharia, on an iPhone 5
Old Delhi, India, by Chirodeep Chaudhuri, shot on a Nokia Lumia 1020. Chaudhuri hopped onboard the cellphone camera bandwagon a little more than a year ago
A shot of the sea link at Worli by Natasha Hemrajani, taken on an iPhone 5. Ten prints from this series were sold to a gallery at R20,000 each
Ronny Sen. Pic/Twisha
Veteran photographer Raghu Rai has been experimenting with his Gionee Elife E7 but thinks cellphones cannot be the future of photography, unless they come with improvised lenses
Shilpa Vijaykrishnan
Chirodeep Chaudhuri
Mitek Contact:Ann ReichertSenior Director of Marketingpr@miteksystems.comInvestor Contacts:Todd Kehrli or Jim ByersMKR Group, Inc.mitk@mkr-group.com