Snapseed is the free Starbucks Pick of the Week
I love iPhoneography. I love coffee. This week, Starbucks combines my love of both for a really great freebie. Powerful image editor Snapseed is the FREE Starbucks Pick of the Week — a savings of almost five bucks!
Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it. Snapseed is one of the most powerful photo editors available for iOS. It’s got a full set of editing tools as well as the very cool “selective adjustments: where you can drop a pin on the image and only the area around the pin adjusts — great for selectively tweaking dark areas of an image, for example. As a universal app, it’s designed to work great on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It supports up to 6.25 MP on an iPhone 3GS and up to 16 MP images for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 and 4S.
To get Snapseed for free this week, you’ll need to get to a Starbucks store, pick up one of the Snapseed Pick of the Week cards, and redeem the code on the back to get the app for free. The cards are in Starbucks stores in the U.S. only this week while they last. No purchase necessary. Don’t forget to tip your baristas.
Snapseed is $4.99 in the App Store. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
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Big thanks to Stacy Anderson for the heads up on this one and for the coffee, Grande Latte with an extra shot.
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