Photography On-The-Go! How to Edit Photos in Google Photos
Times have changed. You can take professional-looking photos with your smartphone alone! Learn how to edit photos in Google photos as you go.
In today's article, we'll be breaking down exactly how to edit photos in Google Photos, for your convenience. Because, aside from being a robust storage platform for all your favorite pics, it's also a great editing tool with a lot of cool features.
So, without any further preamble, let's get you up and editing on Google Photos.
What's Up With Filters?
Learning how to edit photos on Android, or any other phone, often starts with Instagram filters. To anybody who's spent time on the Gram, the idea of a filter should be pretty familiar. For the uninitiated, however, these are specific effects that do certain things to any photo you apply them to. They can be as simple as applying a certain color shade to the whole photo, or as complex as messing with light sources or the same of your face.
Whether you're a relative noob to editing or someone who learned blindfolded on Adobe photo editor, Google Photos actually has a lot to offer.
Google Photos gives users access to 13 unique filters, all of which do various things. To access these:
Open Google Photos
Load the picture you will be editing
Scroll through your options and choose a filter you like with the slider
Save your photo with your new filter attached
Using 'Auto' to Great Effect
"Auto" is the first filter you can choose from in Google Photos, and it works amazingly. Artificial intelligence picks the best exposure, saturation, and other settings, taking the work out of your hands.
It doesn't always work, but "Auto" can make a big difference in your work and is worth checking out.
Adjusting Lighting and Color
Adjusting your photos' white balance is important for creating brighter and darker photos. Google Photos lets you access colors and 'pops' for each photo, as well as robust lighting sliders.
There are also options for how to edit photos in Google that go past this simpler slider bar functionality. Adjust light exposure and contrast, highlights, shadows, and vignetting, easily. You can adjust saturation, warmth, hue, and skin color, with each option available with the slider bar for maximum control. Simply:
Open Google Photos
Open the picture
Tap the bottommost slider icon for these editing tools
Crop and Rotate
From time to time, you may need to crop or rotate as you edit Google photos. That, or you may just want to zoom in or out. This is also 100% possible:
Open Google Photos
Open your picture
Hit the slider icon to open editing tools
From there, just tap the crop icon, adjust your angles, use the slider bar to zoom in and out, and rotate to your desire before saving. It's as easy as that.
Cancel Editing
Once you've finished editing your photo, you may discover things you didn't want changed. Maybe it's more saturated than you wanted. Maybe it's lost some of its clarity. This makes the ability to undo edits so important, and it's yet another thing you can do with Google Photos.
Simply:
Open Google Photos
Open the edited photo you want to undo
Tap the three vertical dots in the top right of your screen
Tap Undo Edit to remove your edits and return the photo to your original photo.
How To Edit Photos In Google Photos
Get the look you want from your photos, right from the comfort of your own android phone, today! With a proper handle on how to edit photos in Google photos, the world is yours.
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