Google takes on Instagram with Snapseed Nik Software also sells desktop versions of Snapseed for Mac and Windows. The software trades on its "U point" technology, which it's claimed enables precise, selective enhancements to be made to any area of a photo. Images can be edited with one click and shared on Twitter and Facebook. We have developed top photography software and technologies for well over a decade and we will continue to leverage this as we grow the Snapseed experience. According to reports, the Nik Software engineers responsible for Snapseed relocate to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google already gives users the capacity to edit photos within Google+, its social network, which competes with facebook. Users can upload high-resolution images as well as crop and sharpen photos. Last month regulators approved Facebook's acquisition of Instagram after concluding the deal was not threat to competition in part because the popular smartphone camera app makes no money, despite its tens of millions of users.