Google Photos Introduces Long-Awaited Flip and Rotate Editing Features

Google Photos Added a Long-Awaited Editing Feature

Google Photos, a popular photo backup and management solution, has finally added a basic yet crucial editing feature. The ability to flip images and videos is currently rolling out to users from a server-side update. Google Photos offers many editing options like cropping, rotating, and adjusting aspect ratios, but the app lacked the simple feature to flip an image. This lack of a flip feature was particularly apparent when comparing Google Photos to other photo editing software. The latest update adds the ability to flip the image on the second from the right option. With the new flip feature, Google Photos is closer to being completely in line with user expectations for basic image editing tools. That kind of thing is really important for situations like flipping selfies taken with the mirror option disabled or making quick adjustments to the composition of photos. What's even better is that the feature extends to videos as well. Keep in mind that the feature is still rolling out to Android mobile devices, so if it's not there right now, it will show up eventually. Google is likely using a server-side push to enable the feature for users over time. Unfortunately, the feature is currently limited to the mobile app and is not yet accessible on the web version of Google Photos. You have the flip option if you see four options instead of three. This addresses a long-standing user request that's been ignored as Google added AI features to Photos. Google needs to balance its focus on AI-powered features with essential editing tools. Although AI features like Magic Eraser, Ask Photos, and Photo Unblur have been impressive, basic features like batch editing, custom presets, and a lasso tool should also be a priority. Google has not yet acknowledged adding the feature, so there is no indication when other editing features outside of AI will show up. Source: Hnrefugee (Reddit), Android Police

Google Photos Has Finally Added a Long-Awaited Editing Feature

I Changed These 10 Windows 11 Settings to Maximize My Laptop's Battery Life Google has finally added a pretty basic editing feature that has, for some reason or another, been previously absent from Google Photos. And I have to say, I will personally find this more useful than many of the fancy AI tricks Google has been adding. You Can Now Flip Photos and Videos in Google Photos As first spotted on Reddit, and rolling out via an update, Google Photos now boasts a flip option. This means you can flip both photos and videos from left to right and back again. Once you have the feature, it's extremely easy to find and use. Just open Google Photos and find the photo or video you want to flip. Click Edit followed by Crop, then look for the Flip icon (a rectangle split by a line down the middle, with a broken line on the right side). Click that, and the selected photo or video will flip to the left or right. Why You Might Want to Flip Your Photos or Videos Close There are several reasons why you might want to flip your photos or videos. The most obvious being to improve the composition of your smartphone shots. Our eyes tend to move across a scene from left to right, likely due to that being the direction most (but not all) languages are read in. So the composition of your photos can help tell a more satisfying story to whoever is viewing them. I Prefer This Simple Feature to Most AI Features It's surprising how long it has taken Google to add this really common, and pretty basic, feature to Google Photos. After all, it has been an option in Snapseed, also owned by Google, for a long time. And the more Snapseed features added to Google Photos the better, as far as I'm concerned. It's even more surprising how long it has taken when you consider how many fancy AI features Google has added before this. The option to have AI Unblur blurry photos, or take the Magic Eraser to photos containing unwanted elements, is great, but not at the expense of basic image editing tools such as this one.

Google Photos can finally flip your images and videos

Google Messages is preparing to implement its new messaging protocol Key Takeaways Google Photos now has a new flip option for mirroring images horizontally. The flip tool even works on videos. The flip option is currently only available in the mobile app, not on the web, rolling out gradually. Google Photos is one of the best photo backup solutions for managing your ever-growing image library. It also packs powerful editing options, ensuring you don't have to use a third-party app to modify your picture to get the desired results. Despite packing an impressive set of editing tools, Google Photos lacks one basic feature: the ability to flip or mirror an image. You can use AI to alter the sky's color in your pictures, but there's no tool to flip an image. Fortunately, this is no longer the case. Related Hey Google, where's Google Photos for Android TV? Apple does it with iCloud Photos; why can't you, Google? 5 As many Google Photos users on Reddit report, the Google Photos crop tool now has a new Flip option. This option mirrors your image or flips it horizontally. Surprisingly, the Flip button also appears for videos. Once you flip an image or video, Google Photos will display the option to save it as a copy, ensuring the original picture remains untouched. Until now, you could only crop, rotate, or adjust a picture's aspect ratio using Google Photos. Flipping an image was the only basic option missing. Close The option is particularly useful if you want to quickly flip a selfie and forgot to enable the mirror option on your phone's camera app. Sadly, Google is only rolling out the flip button in the mobile app of Google Photos. The option is not available on the web. The new button seems to be rolling out via a server-side push from Google, so even after running the latest Google Photos build, you might not immediately gain access to it. Google Photos editing suite needs more non-AI features Google has been heavily focusing on adding new AI-powered features to Google Photos. While Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait Light are impressive, the company must first focus on covering the basics. Google Photos doesn't offer the option to batch edit pictures or create custom presets to quickly apply across multiple images. Additionally, there's no lasso tool for making targeted edits to specific areas of an image. To Google's credit, the AI tools it is rolling out are impressive. Recently, it released Ask Photos in Google Photos to select Labs users for an improved search experience.