The Verge: How to use the new web-based editing tools in Google Photos. “Google Photos isn’t just a place for storing and sorting your photos and videos — both the web interface and the mobile apps come with a slew of image editing tools so you can spruce up and enhance your pictures before sharing them with the wider world. Google regularly updates these editing tools, and a significant upgrade just arrived on the web.”
How-To Geek: Google Photos Is Getting a Revamped Web Editor. “Google Photos keeps improving, from a new scrapbook and AI tool to 3D Cinematic photos and more. While most of the best editing features have been available on mobile for quite some time, they’re finally coming to Google Photos on the web this week.”
MakeUseOf: Immich Is a Great Google Photos Alternative You Can Host on Raspberry Pi. “Google Photos is the dominant photo storage and backup solution, effortlessly spiriting your images from your phone into the cloud. But if you don’t want to share your personal photos with Google, there are alternatives. While there are many self-hosted solutions you can host on Raspberry Pi, Immich stands head and shoulders above most competitors. It offers machine learning, multiple users, automatic image classification, facial recognition, native Android and iOS apps, and a host of other features.”
9to5 Google: Google Photos website adding advanced editing tools from Google One. “Google usually prioritizes its Android and iOS apps when adding new features, but Google Photos on the web is now adding advanced editing Google One tools.”
9to5 Google: Google Photos tweaks and simplifies backup terminology. “To simplify backups, Google Photos has updated two terms related to the process across the mobile and web apps as well as in support documentation.”
WIRED: Everyone Is Using Google Photos Wrong. “Uploading thousands of photos and never taking any steps to sort or manage them creates a series of privacy risks and is making it impossible to maintain your photo collection in the future. Now is the time to stop being an information hoarder, before it spirals out of control.”
Droid Life: Bring In That New Year With a Sick Google Photos Collage. “Google Photos has a few updated collage options to bring in that new year, so if you’re feeling festive and have some photos you want to share, now might be a good time.”
Android Police: Google Photos tests a new image search button that’s arguably more useful than Lens. “The most game-changing thing about Photos is probably the search prowess it launched with, allowing you to view images with specific objects, places, or people in them just like you would search through text. Google long expanded this functionality with the option to search for similar results around the web with a Google Lens shortcut in the image viewer, but it looks like the company might change the way this image search tool works within Photos.”
9to5Google: Some Google Photos users finding that old images have been ‘corrupted’ [Updated]. “In recent days, Google Photos users scrolling back several years through their library have found pictures that can be best described as ‘corrupted.’ Update 9/26: Google shared the following this afternoon: ‘We’re aware of the issue and are rolling out a fix. The original photos are not impacted.’”
PC Magazine: Google Photos Rolls Out Its Biggest Ever Feature Update for Memories. “Google Photos is harnessing our collective need to share nostalgia with its biggest-ever update to Memories, which surfaces snapshots from recent years. The redesign, according to product manager Yael Marzan, will feature more videos—including ‘the best snippets’ from longer videos automatically trimmed ‘so you can relive the most meaningful moments.’”
CNET: Google Photos Update Adds New Video Editor and Movie Maker. “Google unveiled new features and updates to Chromebooks on Wednesday that will include a new video editor and movie maker for Google Photos.”
9to5 Google: Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image. “The tweaks and small additions to Google Photos continues with the Info pane on the web getting a rather useful ‘Backed up’ section.”
Android Authority: Master Google Photos with these lesser-known features. “Google Photos was released on May 28, seven years ago, ushering in a new era for photo backups on Android and at large. The service stood out as one of the best photo editing apps thanks to its free unlimited backups, smart categorization, sharing features, and a suite of editing tools. And the feature set has only grown since 2015. Despite having had plenty of time to familiarize ourselves with the app, there are several nifty features that you might have yet to discover.”
Google Blog: Get organized with a little Google Photos spring cleaning. “Flowers are blooming, the weather’s getting warmer, the days are a little longer — which means it’s also time for spring cleaning. Over the coming weeks, we’re starting to roll out some updates to Google Photos to make it even easier to sort through your albums, import photos and videos you have saved somewhere else, see your shared content and find screenshots. Let the decluttering begin!”
Android Police: 9 top tips and tricks to tame your Google Photos collection. “Although unlimited storage is a thing of the past, Google Photos is still one of the best photo management apps available for Android. Its straightforward design paired with a recent Material You makeover makes it a solid choice for anyone looking to organize their library of photos and videos. However, there’s a lot more to Google Photos than meets the eye. We’ve delved into Google Photos and collected nine of the best tips & tricks so that you won’t be left out of the picture.”
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