You might wanna check out the new iPad imag­ing app from Nik Software, pro­pri­etor of the U-Point tech­nol­ogy, cre­ator of great plug-ins with funny inter­faces for your Aperture, Lightroom and Photoshop.

But Snapseed means busi­ness, it com­bines Nik’s pop­u­lar & extremely effec­tive zone-style selec­tive pro­cess­ing engine (think: dark­en­ing the sky with­out turn­ing the fore­ground dark, or light­en­ing the face of your favorite sub­ject with­out blow­ing the sky), with Hipstamatic– or Instagram-like imag­ing effects, and the basics, like auto cor­rec­tion, crop­ping, fram­ing and shar­ing like the iPhoto would do, but with­out the quirky inter­faces like its plug-in siblings.

With the rave reviews out there, you might eas­ily find five bucks’ a steal, with one caveat, though, unlike the desk­top coun­ter­part, this one doesn’t allow you to zoom-in to your pho­tos to refine your U-point-powered selec­tion, if his­tory is any indi­ca­tion, trust that the Nik guys will even­tu­ally offer this fea­ture with future updates, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.