Apple’s iPad app of the year, Snapseed, coming to Mac and Android tablets

Photography software developer Nik Software will soon release its popular Snapseed photo-editing application for Mac and select Android tablets.

Snapseed, originally released for iPhone and iPad, offers a smattering of photo-editing features and creative enhancements that help hobby photographers capture, edit, transform and share their photos — no heavy-lifting or Photoshop skills required. The application has been lauded for its stylish interface and professional-grade quality, and even took home Apple’s coveted iPad app of the year award for 2011.

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The new Snapseed for Mac and Snapseed for Android tablets applications will introduce those sophisticated photo-editing features to more audiences. Both will include the same core elements — one-touch auto correct, tilt-shift, filters, textures and vintage films for retro styling — made popular by the original iOS apps.

Nik Software announced the coming-soon apps at CES Tuesday. The Mac app will retail for $19.99 on the Mac App Store and will be compatible with Mac OS 10.6.8 and later. The Android version will (unfortunately) only work on Nvidia Tegra-powered tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, and will cost $4.99. Both applications are slated for early 2012 release.

For more news out of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, be sure to check out VentureBeat’s live coverage from CES 2012.