Google Photos Turns 10 With Major Editor Redesign, QR Code Sharing (9to5google.com) 16
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Google Photos was announced at I/O 2015 and the company is now celebrating the app's 10th birthday with a redesign of the photo editor. Google is redesigning the Photos editor so that it "provides helpful suggestions and puts all our powerful editing tools in one place." It starts with a new fullscreen viewer that places the date, time, and location at the top of your screen. Meanwhile, it's now Share, Edit, Add to (instead of Lens), and Trash at the bottom.
Once editing, Google Photos has moved controls for aspect ratio, flip, and rotate to be above the image. In the top-left corner, we have Auto Frame, which debuted in Magic Editor on the Pixel 9, to fill-in backgrounds and is now coming to more devices. Underneath, we get options for Enhance, Dynamic, and "AI Enhance" in the Auto tab. That's followed by Lighting, Color, and Composition, as well as a search shortcut: "You can use AI-powered suggestions that combine multiple effects for quick edits in a variety of tailored options, or you can tap specific parts of an image to get suggested tools for editing that area."
The editor allows you to circle or "tap specific parts of an image to get suggested tools for editing that area." This includes the subject, background, or some other aspect. You then see the Blur background, Add portrait light, Sharpen, Move and Reimagine appear in the example below. We also see the redesigned sliders throughout this updated interface. This Google Photos editor redesign "will begin rolling out globally to Android devices next month, with iOS following later this year." We already know the app is set for a Material 3 Expressive redesign. Meanwhile, Google Photos is starting to roll out the ability to share albums with a QR code. This method makes for easy viewing and adding with people nearby. Google even suggests printing it out when in (physical) group settings. Google shared a few tips, tricks and tools for the new editor in a blog post.
Once editing, Google Photos has moved controls for aspect ratio, flip, and rotate to be above the image. In the top-left corner, we have Auto Frame, which debuted in Magic Editor on the Pixel 9, to fill-in backgrounds and is now coming to more devices. Underneath, we get options for Enhance, Dynamic, and "AI Enhance" in the Auto tab. That's followed by Lighting, Color, and Composition, as well as a search shortcut: "You can use AI-powered suggestions that combine multiple effects for quick edits in a variety of tailored options, or you can tap specific parts of an image to get suggested tools for editing that area."
The editor allows you to circle or "tap specific parts of an image to get suggested tools for editing that area." This includes the subject, background, or some other aspect. You then see the Blur background, Add portrait light, Sharpen, Move and Reimagine appear in the example below. We also see the redesigned sliders throughout this updated interface. This Google Photos editor redesign "will begin rolling out globally to Android devices next month, with iOS following later this year." We already know the app is set for a Material 3 Expressive redesign. Meanwhile, Google Photos is starting to roll out the ability to share albums with a QR code. This method makes for easy viewing and adding with people nearby. Google even suggests printing it out when in (physical) group settings. Google shared a few tips, tricks and tools for the new editor in a blog post.
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If it's the usual google thing, now that you've found out about it they will cancel it.
Still bitter about Picasa (Score:2)
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Same. Picasa did about all you really needed.
Re: Still bitter about Picasa (Score:2)
I use Lightroom classic. Meets pretty much all my needs, combined with Topaz photo AI. It has a nasty subscription model. Nevertheless, I found that the workflow would be far too cumbersome by piecing together multiple FOSS programs that don't integrate well.
I don't keep anything in the cloud. I run my own cloud with inbound home VPN and Foldersync on the android phone uploading to the NAS.
I have not yet found the proper app on Android to pick photos among my very large collections that wouldn't fit on any
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I have not yet found the proper app on Android to pick photos among my very large collections that wouldn't fit on any phone built in storage currently in existence.
I recently stumbled over https://ente.io/ [ente.io] . It can even be self-hosted, because it's open source. It looks promising, though I haven't had time to try the self-hosting yet.
Export to another account please (Score:2)
I like Google photo and use it a lot. One of the best way to share high-quality pictures with friends and family without forcing them to create an account or filling their mailboxes with copies of the same large files.
One thing I don't like is that it is still not possible to transfer data (including albums, shares and comments) to another Google account. The only possibility is to get a big zip file with all the pictures but lose everything else.
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I wish they would bring the map feature from the Android app to the desktop. You can view your photos on a map, rather than as chronological thumbnails.
I'm looking at FOSS alternatives to run locally, mostly for that feature.
QR codes need to die (Score:3)
QR codes are a phisher's dream, easily obscure everything. I won't ever scan a QR code.
What Google calls "Sharing" I call STEALING (Score:1)
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Funny how extremely persistent they are with trying to get me to upload all my shit to their cloud storage. Every third time I open the app, it freezes what I'm trying to do and overlays a dialog box with dark patterns designed to trick me into uploading everything. The answer was no the first time. And the time after that. And after that. And after that. And after that, the answer was still no. But every time the dialog comes up, "Backup to cloud" is again selected, requiring me to deselect it over, and ov