Google Photos Launches New AI-Powered Editing and Creative Features
Google Photos has begun rolling out a new AI feature, promising enhanced photo management capabilities, amidst ongoing privacy and tracking disclosures.
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Google Photos Unveils Major Redesign and iOS-First Features
Google Photos is rolling out new features exclusively for iPhone users, including a light mode, glanceable photo data, new action buttons, improved photo stack management, and quick action badges. These enhancements aim to improve user experience on iOS, with an upcoming Android release expected soon, though no specific date has been provided.
Google Photos unveils redesign and new features including HDR editing
Google Photos has been updated with a new, more intuitive UI, including a light mode that matches device themes, improved photo details, and streamlined action menus. The update enhances navigation and photo management features for iPhone users now, with Android support coming soon.
"Google Photos Unveils Upgraded Features for Streamlined User Experience"
Google is testing a new "Hide clutter" function for Google Photos, allowing users to automatically filter out saved items like screenshots, GIFs, and memes from their photo grid without deleting them. The update also includes a potential redesign for the Memories tab and a toggle switch to turn off AI-assisted memory title suggestions. These features aim to help users manage their photo libraries more effectively and are part of Google's ongoing efforts to improve the platform.
"Google Photos Empowers Users with Enhanced Control over AI-Generated Highlight Videos"
Google Photos is rolling out an update that allows users to choose the parameters for AI-generated video highlights, giving them more control over the content. Users can search for specific people, places, or activities they want the app to include, and then customize the video by trimming clips, rearranging them, or changing the music. Previously, users had to manually select the content they wanted in the videos. The feature will be gradually rolled out, and it is unclear if it will be available on the web or other platforms.
Navigating the Shutdown of Apple's My Photo Stream: Expert Advice
Apple's My Photo Stream feature, which allowed users to easily sync photos across multiple Apple devices, has been shut down. The feature automatically stored up to 1,000 recent photos for 30 days, but it did not count against iCloud storage limits. Apple's decision to shut down My Photo Stream is likely aimed at encouraging users to pay for iCloud storage. Most Apple users already have iCloud accounts set up, which automatically upload photos and videos. Those who don't have an iCloud account set up may need to find an alternative service for automatic backups. Google Photos, which offers 15GB of free storage and is accessible from various devices, is a popular alternative.
digiKam 8.0: Enhanced File Format Support and OCR Tool.
digiKam 8.0, the open-source professional photo management software, has been released with expanded file format support, a new OCR tool powered by the Tesseract engine, image metadata handling improvements, better integration with QMIC-Qt 3.2.2, and ongoing work of porting over to the Qt6 toolkit. The software now supports TIFF 16-bit float (half-float) images, JPEG-XL / AVIF / WebP exporting, and the RAW image decoder has been expanded to handle files from various cameras.