How to use the new editing tools on Google Photos

Whether it's a daily selfie or a photo of a landscape, street, food… everyone wants our photos to look good before sharing. For some, that means the image should be bright enough or have an extra effect, to match the style.

Google has just added a bunch of new editing tools to the Photos app. Photo: Gizmodo

Recently, Google has updated the entire machine learning algorithm, adding a number of new editing tools but still ensuring the criteria of simplicity and ease of use. Comes with smart suggestions, help you get better photos with just one touch.

First, update the Google Photos app (photo) to the latest version through Google Play or the App Store. Next, users just need to open the photo to edit, click on the three horizontal bars in the lower left corner.

If it is a portrait photo, Google Photos (photo) will automatically display familiar recommendations such as Enhance (advanced), Color Pop (highlight the color of the subject, the surrounding parts will be converted to black and white) . Information is posted on the blog, in the near future Google will add more recommendations for portraits, landscapes, sunsets . to help make things stand out. Of course, the user can completely intervene and modify the parameters.

Besides the automatic suggestions, this new version also adds a series of tools to edit brightness, detail, contrast, saturation, warmth, blur . Users just need to slide through back on the toolbar to discover new features.

If you're using a Pixel 4a (5G) or Pixel 5 phone, you'll get the Portrait Light feature, which uses machine learning to improve facial light when taking portrait photos. This means you will have more control over where the light is positioned after you shoot it through the Google Photos app.

Marvin Fry

Update 15 November 2020