For people who have been debating whether or not to pay Google for extra cloud storage, today Google just sweetened the deal by offering a new photoediting tools to Google One subscribers.
One blog post, Google has highlighted 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 photos captured by older phones you don’t have the same set of depth sensors available on newer devices and any existing photos you’ve already taken.
New editing features include both portrait blur and portrait lighting to help enhance photos you’ve captured with friends and family, along with Fading and coloring effects to highlight a particular subject or to emphasize certain shades and nuances. And, as usual, you can apply these effects yourself or let Google Photos edit its own with automatic suggestions.
There is even support for more advanced editing effects, which Google sounds ddynamic suggestions that use machine learning to adjust a variety of settings, including brightness, contrast and color saturation, all with one touch. For landscape photos, Google has even created a special sky hint filter (example above) that can add extra drama to your photo by changing multiple settings and overlaying a handful of color palettes “inspired by sunrises and sunsets.” of amazing sun ”.
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In addition to the new effects, Google is adding a new video editor to Google Photos for all users (even those who don’t pay) with more than 30 different settings and commands, including trimming, stabilizing, adding filters, changing perspectives, and more.
However, while it is hard To be upset about getting new features for free, it’s important to mention the new Google Photos upgrades for people with Google One subscriptions just a few months before Google disable unlimited storage in Google Photos. Starting in June, anyone with more than 15 GB of photos will either have to find somewhere else to store their photos, or pay $ 2 a month for 100 GB of cloud storage with Google One.
On the one hand, it was always clear that unlimited free storage in Google Photos was too good a deal to last forever, but at the same time, the switching force people to make a difficult decision about what to do with all the digital media they have captured over the years.
WWhen it comes to cloud storage, the free 15GB of storage you get from Google Photos is already three times as much space as you get from Apple iCloud or Microsoft OneDrive, which offers only 5 GB of free storage. So if you’re already limited to storage in Google Photos, switching to one of the other large cloud storage providers probably won’t save you money.
And if you decide to opt for additional cloud storage now Google One and Microsoft OneDrive charge $ 2 a month for an extra 100GB (or $ 3 a month for 200GB with Google One), while Apple taxes $ 1 per month for 50 GB or $ 3 per month for 200 GB. It’s silly that Google Photos isn’t completely free anymore, but Google One is still a pretty good deal compared to the competition.
Subscribe to Google One on Android will see the new photo editing features “In the coming days” and new video clipediting features (which are already available on iOS) will be available on Android sometime in the “next few weeks.”