Mobile photographers could have been forgiven for thinking that the beloved Google-owned photo editor Snapseed was dead before it received its first major update in years last June, bringing the app to version 3.0. Good news for Snapseed fans, the wait for the next major update was much shorter, and Snapseed 4.0 has arrived on iOS and Android. As a bit of background on why Snapseed 4.0 is such promising news for the photo editor’s supporters, before Snapseed 3.0, the last major update, version 2.17, arrived way back in 2017. To put that into perspective, the iPhone X debuted in September 2017. The original Snapseed app was launched on iPhone back in June 2011 by Nik Software, known best by photographers for its excellent Nik Collection photo editing plugins on desktop. Google acquired Nik Software in September 2012. Eventually, support for acquired Nik Software products languished. Google abandoned the Nik Collection in May 2017 and DxO acquired it later that year.…