For people who have been debating whether or not they should pay Google for additional cloud storage, today Google has just sweetened the deal by offering a new image.editing tools to Google One subscribers.
In a blog post, Google explained the new effects that will be added to Google Photos for people with Google One subscriptions, which include porting over features previously only available on Pixel phones. The new effects even include support for pictures carved with old phones that are the same set of depth sensors is not available on newer devices, and any photos you have already taken.
New editing features include both Portrait Blur and Portrait Lighting to help enhance your snapshot photos of friends and family, along with Blur and Color Pop effects to help highlight a particular theme or to emphasize specific shapes and scenes. And as always, you can apply these effects yourself, or let Google Photos create its own edits through automated recommendations.
There is even support for more advanced editorial effects, a Google calls dynamic suggestions, sin practice machine learning to change a number of situations involving brightness, contrast, and color absorption, all with one tap. For landscape designers, Google has even made specific sky suggestion filters (example above) that can add a little extra drama to your image by throwing multiple settings and overlaying a handful of palettes color “inspired by stunning sunrises and sunsets. ”
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In addition to the new effects, Google is also adding a new video editor to Google Photos for all users (even non-paying ones) with more on 30 different settings and controls, including trimming, stabilizing, seeding, changing views, and more.
But, as long as it is sorry To get excited about getting new features for free, it ‘s important to mention the latest updates to Google Photos for people with Google One subscriptions coming just a few months before Google arrives. disable unlimited storage in Google Photos. Starting in June, anyone with more than 15GB of photos will either have to find another place to store their photos, or pay $ 2 per month for 100GB of cloud storage with Google One.
On the one hand, it was always clear that free unlimited storage in Google Photos was too good a contract to last forever, but at the same time, the forces were suids people to make a hard decision about what to do with all the digital media they have captured over the years.
W.hence it comes to cloud storage, the 15GB of free storage you get from Google Photos is already three times as much space as you get from Apple iCloud or Microsoft OneDrive, which only provide 5GB of free storage. So if you already have your storage in Google Photos, you may not save money to one of the other major cloud storage providers.
And if you decide to opt for additional cloud storage right now Google One and Microsoft OneDrive charge $ 2 per month for an additional 100GB of space (or $ 3 per month for 200GB with Google One), while Apple charges $ 1 per month for 50GB or $ 3 per month for 200GB. It’s a bummer that Google Photos is no longer completely free, but Google One is still pretty much compared to the competition.
Google One Subscribers on Android you can see the new features for photo editing “Over the last few days,” and the new videoediting features (already available on iOS) will be available on Android sometime in the “coming weeks.”