One of the best photo-editing apps on iOS and Android is Snapseed. And unlike many other premium editing apps, it’s completely free to use. Google-owned Snapseed is frequently updated with new and useful features that make it quick for photographers to enhance their photos before they share them on social media.
Snapseed is easy enough for most people to use right away, although more advanced users can make use of a some powerful features like Snapseed QR codes which make sharing your photo editing workflows with others extremely easy.
What Are Snapseed QR Codes?
Snapseed QR codes allow you to save and share entire photo editing workflows. Since they're based on non-destructive editing, the original image is never modified and every adjustment is stored instead.
When someone scans a Snapseed QR code, all the edits from the formula are immediately added to their own photo. This makes it simple to share and experience with others through QR codes.
List of best Snapseed QR Codes 2026
1. Bright Urban Landscapes
Great for daytime city shots, this QR code boosts blue sky, building detail and evens out exposure, brightness and shadows. With a slightly cool colour temperature it gives images a clean modern look with still plenty of headroom for further tweaking.
2. Nostalgic Pet Portraits
This preset was made specifically for pets and animals. It increased saturation slightly to really make the colours pop (especially leaves/flowers). There is a slight blur added as well to give it a more vintage feel, plus I bumped up the exposure a bit, so that your pet AND the background are both well lit.
3. Monochrome Landscapes
This QR code is tailored for dramatic black and white landscapes. It boosts the contrast and exposure to bring out the details in the buildings/landscape. A subtle film like grain can also be added to introduce depth and mood, making your black and whites more striking!
4. Cinematic Indoor Portraits
Indoor portraits typically have the issues of low light, noise or underexposure. This Snapseed QR code injects a warm film look to create a cozy cinematic feel with an added nostalgia to your indoor portrait. Not only that, but the featured edits also deal with harsh lighting issue and draw focus naturally to subject.
5. Vivid Urban Landscapes
Night Street photography can be challenging as you must deal with extreme contrasts of light and dark shadows. Use this Snapseed QR code to adjust the brightness, contrast, shadows, and highlights so that the bright city lights pop up while everything else is clearly visible too.
6. Natural Daytime Colours
Great for nature and close-up photography, scan this QR code to increase saturation, brightness and warmth. It will make green leaves radiant while reviving the colours of flowers, butterflies and other small subjects naturally fresh.
7. Luminous Low-Light Cityscapes
For fast but powerful edits to night photos, this Snapseed QR code does the trick. It sharpen buildings and lit items while cautiously making brighter, darker, richer and contrast.
8. Dramatic Outdoor Landscapes
For landscape photos with clouds, this Snapseed QR code boost highlights in the sky and slightly desaturate grass (or water), yielding artistic textures, to better direct attention to a human, building or object.
9. High-Contrast Daytime Landscapes
This QR code is meant to warm up your images and help boost colour, especially in skies or flowers and the like that can sometimes appear more flat out of camera. You may want to add in a lens blur or vignette after applying the preset if you still want even more emphasis on those sorts of subjects.
10. Monochrome Portraits
Make impactful black-and-white portraits in an instant with this Snapseed QR code, which removes all colour and fine-tunes brightness, shadows, contrast and highlights. A subtle lens blur focused on the centre is included to help you direct the viewer’s gaze just make sure your portrait subject is centred, or else edit the blur manually.
How to Apply a Snapseed QR Code
To use a Snapseed QR code, launch the Snapseed app on your phone and tap Open to select the photo you’d like to edit. After your image has loaded, tap the Edit Stack icon in the top-right corner of your screen. A menu will appear, where you’ll click QR Look and then Scan QR Look. Hold your phone up so that it can read the Snapseed QR code, and voilà, your photo will instantly have those edits.
How to make a Snapseed QR code?
Save your edits of a photo as QR code to reuse or share. Tap the Edit Stack icon, choose QR Look and press Create QR Look. Then you can tap Share to send it with any supported app of your phone.
FAQs
1. How do I view the QR code on Snapseed?
You can find photo editing workflows (Snapseed QR codes) shared by other people, using the process described above. The easiest way to recognize Snapseed QR codes is that in the centre of the QR code there’s an icon of the app itself, which is in the centre of the original image that was used to make the edit.
2. Is it possible to load Snapseed QR codes from a same device?
Yes, you can load a Snapseed QR code from your own smartphone. To do so, you will need to have the latest version of the Google app installed on your smartphone. From within the app, you can choose the Google Lens feature and then select the image of the Snapseed QR code in your iPhone Camera Roll or your Android phone's gallery app. This will allow you to open that Snapseed QR code in-app on your phone.
3. Where do I find Snapseed QR codes?
There are a ton of Snapseed QR codes available online as well which can also help you in editing your images with presets. You can scan some of the QR codes mentioned above or just search for Snapseed QR codes on the internet and you will come across tons of websites that let you download over hundreds of presets that work with the Snapseed app on both iOS and Android.