There are also traditional adjustments, beginning with Light (brightness) and Color (spelled 'Colour' in the web version). You can save a copy with your effects, and you always have the Cancel option to undo all changes. Each filter has a slider that lets you adjust the intensity of the effect. West, for instance, cranks up the whites in images, and Vista is a high-contrast black-and-white effect. For quick touchups, the app offers 12 Instagram-style filters with cryptic names. You might start with crop and rotate to trim the photo and tilt it if the shot was crooked. Google Photos offers a good assortment of editing tools in the app and web interface. For instance, I learned that some flowers I shot in the park are examples of the dahlia pinnata variety. It will analyze the photo and provide search results of similar images from around the web.

When you bring up an individual photo, you can also click below it on icon of a dot inside a square to activate Google lens. Then click the red dot on the thumbnail of the album you want to remove it from,` or click the blue dot on the album you want to add it to. If a photo doesn't belong, click on it to bring up a new screen in the app (or click the 'i' icon on the web), scroll down to 'People' and click the pencil icon to the right. This is a common feature in most photo-organizing apps, as is organizing photos by place, if they were taken on a smartphone or GPS-enabled camera that records location data.Ĭlicking on the People category brings up portrait photos, and clicking each portrait brings up all the pictures that Google thinks are of the same person. (We'll discuss actual album creation later on.) The first category uses face-recognition technology to group photos of the same person. Tapping the Albums icon at the bottom of the mobile app or the left of the web interface brings up a new view, organized by People, Places, Things, Videos, Collages, Animations, and Movies, which are edited videos.

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