Google has rolled out a “more helpful editor” in the Google Photos app on Android with smart suggestions & easy-to-use granular adjustments to make photos look even better. Some of the features are driven by machine learning (ML).
There’s a now a new tab in the editor that uses ML to give you suggestions that are tailored to the specific photo you’re editing. As users are aware, Google Photos provides helpful suggestions like brightening, rotating or archiving a picture while you’re viewing it.
“Now, we’re building off that idea and applying it to the editor to make editing easy—with Google Photos doing most of the heavy lifting”, said Google in this blog post.
The new editor also makes it easy to find & apply granular edits, like brightness, contrast, saturation & warmth. With the editor’s new layout, you can quickly scroll through all your options to find the tool you need or discover new ones.
Then, there’s the new “Portrait Light”, an editing feature coming to Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 that uses machine learning to improve the lighting on faces in portraits. To give you even more control over how your portraits look, you’ll be able to adjust the light position & brightness post-capture through the Google Photos app. You’ll also be able to add Portrait Light to regular photos not captured in Portrait mode — whether it’s a photo you just took or an important picture from the past — on Pixel 4a (5G) & Pixel 5, with availability on more Pixel devices soon.
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