The Google Photo Library launched new image editing tools on Android a few days ago. Here is how to use them.
Google has just rolled out new editing tools within its Google Photos app on Android. Easier to use, they are now grouped together in the same place and allow new automatic corrections suggested by the application to be applied thanks to machine learning.
You will be able to adjust various parameters of your image, such as brightness, contrast, or even saturation, in a single tap to obtain an optimally edited photo.
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1. Access the editing tools
Open Google Photos, browse your library, and view the image you want to edit. In the toolbar displayed at the bottom of the screen, press the second button from the left, showing settings.
2. Apply the suggested settings
The first settings proposed are the modifications suggested by the application. You can thus decide to Improve the image by applying parameters to it improving the overall rendering of the image, but also choose between a Hot or Cold rendering.
3. Crop an image
The following tool allows you to crop your images. You can use the slider to slightly rotate the subject of your image, but also manually adjust the cropping by acting directly on the frame of the displayed photo.
The crop tool also offers to select a predefined ratio or choose a custom one, and will also allow you to rotate the image, or to modify the tilt of the image.
4. Adjust the picture settings
Google Photos also offers to adjust various parameters of your image. If you have previously chosen to apply one of the suggested settings, the relevant modifications present in the Adjust section will be displayed in blue.
You will be able to modify the Brightness, the Contrast, the White Point, the Highlights, the Shadows, and the Black Point and adjust the Saturation, the Warmth, the Tint, the Tone of the complexion (skin), the Tone of blue, but also apply a Sharpness or Vignetting effect.
5. Apply predefined filters
If you don’t want to go into the details of a photo editing, you can easily choose to apply one of the thirteen predefined filters in Google Photos.
The application of these filters can obviously be combined with other modifications carried out manually, in particular using the tools in the Adjust section.
6. Annotate your images
Among the images stored in your library, you probably have photos or screenshots that you would need to annotate before sharing. Google Photos integrates this possibility. To do this, you need to enter More within the editing tools offered.
You will then be able to obtain the toolkit dedicated to annotations which will allow you to write freehand, to highlight, or even to type text, and that in several colors.