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Title: Google Photos Turns 10 With Major Editor Redesign, QR Code Sharing

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/1940...

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.

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