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Google Photos App with One Subscription: Advanced Photo & Video Editor

In principle, the Photos program can be used by default on any gadget (on some smartphones,

there is). In most cases, it comes as an add-on to Google services, and the photo and video viewer app is provided by the device developer.

Personally, I am more than satisfied with the viewers from Huawei or Xiaomi.

However, the Google Pixel uses moreadvanced version of "Photo" for free. Other devices require a Google One subscription. It costs from 1,390 rubles to 6,990 rubles a year. True, at the moment it cannot be bought from Russia.

In this article, I will talk about all the settings of the program and show the effects that are included in the Google One subscription, using the Pixel 6 as an example.

Main menu

After starting the program, the screen displaysphotos and videos sorted by date. The presentation is classic: a square with a preview of photos and videos. In the case of videos, they are played in turn in their miniature format. If there are a lot of videos, then the tape becomes quite lively. However, it seems to me that such a design should quickly drain the battery, because the system needs to include each video from beginning to end with all the effects.

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At the top right, you'll be logged into your account.The main thing - either you turn on autoload, or turn it off. Now it's called that. And some time ago, the system asked you a little ambiguously, like “Changes will not be saved” and the answer is “Save” and “Yes”. So think about what exactly the application wanted to tell me.

My autoload feature is disabled.The fact is that a few years ago I forgot to delete my account on a test device, and the person who received the device saw all my photos. And there were about 1000 of them there: both test ones, and home ones, and workers. Luckily there was nothing like that in the photos. Probably, for an ordinary user, such a case is unlikely to be relevant.

At the bottom there is a search by photo. As far as I understand, it only works with the data that is uploaded to the cloud. It is very convenient to search for "river", "temple", "children" and others.

Then there is the General section. In it, you can create albums with photos and videos, share them. This data will automatically be loaded on other devices.

The "Library" contains all the photos and videos in different folders. In addition, you can find tools:

  • Setting up a personal folder
  • Add partner account
  • Create animation
  • Create collage
  • Create a movie

Editing

Each photo and video has a small icon on the rightup. For example, normal videos are marked with a circle icon with a “play” button, accelerated videos are marked with two arrows to the right, slow motion videos are marked with a dotted circle and “play”, night photos are an image of the moon, portraits are a frame with a man, panning effect is a right arrow in a dotted square.

After opening the photo, there are items below for sending, editing, searching for objects in the photo and deleting. You can also share it on TV or upload it to the cloud.

We are more interested in the item with editing.

Without a Google One subscription, you will have Dynamic, Vivid, Luminous, and so on blocked. There will be no Blur and Sky items in the tools, and HDR in the settings.

In the "Suggestions" mode, the software offers to adjust the parameters on the photo in automatic mode. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. As a rule, problems arise with white balance.

The Dynamic mode increases contrast, saturation, and a little brightness in dark areas.

"Saturated" adds a little color to some objects, but if there is a sky in the frame, it will become a little darker.

The rest of the effects - "Air", "Thunder" and so on - just tint the picture a little in certain tones.

In the "Crop" section there is an automatic mode.Some photos show it on, some don't. From the original - a change in perspective. Convenient for aligning some photographed documents.

In the "Tools" are the most interesting effects: "Blur", "Magic Eraser" and "Sky".

In the first case, AI offers to automatically select a focus point and blur the rest. Works so-so, it is better to select the object manually. In addition, blur depth is available.

"Sky" is something like a regular effect, ohwhich I mentioned above. For example, Xiaomi devices have a sky replacement. That is, the software understands exactly where the sky begins and ends, and replaces it with ready-made solutions: cirrus clouds, clear skies, thunderstorms, and so on. It's easier in Google's Photos app.

"Magic eraser".This is where the full potential of AI and software is revealed. The Photos program looks for unwanted objects in the frame. For example, people and wires over buildings. As soon as she finds them, she circles them in white. If you click on an object, it is removed almost without a trace. And if you click on "Erase everything", then all unwanted objects will disappear from the frame.

In addition, you can manually remove objects in the frame. Including "clean" portrait photos.

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If there is a face in the photo, the program will offer "Portrait Light". A fun thing that can come in handy for creating a nice shadow effect.

There is also a Color Focus effect for portraits. The portrait is in color and the background is black and white.

The "Settings" section contains a huge number of options. The HDR mode didn't impress me. He's kind of weak. Liked the "Light Areas" and "Dark Areas". This is where you can turn around!

You can also find "reduce noise" there.The feature works pretty well. True, the Pixel 6 photographs so well that somehow it is not possible to detect noise. Even night shots are surprisingly clear.

In the "Filters" section, as you might guess, there are filters. There are not many of them, and they all slightly change color in the photo.

In Markup, it is easy to make notes with a “pen” (rather with a brush), a marker (a translucent layer) and write text.

It was all about photographs. But the video can also be edited, and the software has interesting features.

It's easy to export a frame from a movie.That is, you do not need to take a screenshot - you get a picture, however, in FullHD resolution. I would like to have a 4K frame from 4K video. And "Photo" itself determines the good moments in the videos and offers to save them as a picture.

One of the important points is video stabilization. Yes, the Stabilize button appears right in the editor. Looks good. True, the device already writes excellent video.

In the "Crop" section, you can not only crop the frame in any aspect ratio, but also correct distortion.

In the "Settings", in fact, the same chips as in the photo mode. And in the notes, drawings are left on the screen. However, they are not tied to the timeline in any way.

Impression

Agree that for one application, Google Pixel has collected a lot of useful features: from the simple application of color filters to the removal of objects using artificial intelligence.

If you haven't tried Google's Photos app, then I advise you to install it, dig deeper into the settings, and if you like it, purchase a Google One subscription.

Do you use photo or video editors? If so, which ones?

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For providing a review of the Google Pixel 6 smartphone, the author thanks the BiGeek.ru store

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