Google Photos now has a subtle new but much needed feature

Whether or not you’re an iOS or Android consumer, Google Photographs is a superb picture storage and sharing service with options similar to Magic Editor and Ask Photographs. Nonetheless, one very primary function was lacking till this week — a photograph flip possibility. 

First noticed by Android Police, customers can now flip or mirror their photographs from the Google Photographs app. Though that will sound like a elementary function, the fundamental edit capabilities solely allowed customers to crop, rotate, or alter an image’s facet ratio earlier than this replace. 

Some useful cases of mirroring a picture embrace taking a selfie on an iPhone, which is mechanically set to invert your selfie digital camera, conserving the actual orientation of the picture. 

It is a private pet peeve of mine as a result of I typically need my selfies to appear to be what I see within the mirror. Nonetheless, I can not get myself to activate the “mirror font digital camera” setting as a result of, typically, having the precise orientation is best. 

Different useful cases for mirroring a picture embrace pictures, including steadiness and symmetry, or correcting orientation. Even if you cannot consider a use case now, it’s good to have the choice the place all of your photos are saved with out downloading them again to your telephone simply to carry out this primary operate.

Nonetheless, a extra thrilling function in Google Photographs is the “Ask Photographs” function. By leveraging AI, customers can ask the chatbot to discover a picture, as a substitute of looking out by hundreds of images themselves. 

For instance, throughout the demo of the function at Google I/O, as a substitute of typing within the key phrase “license plate” and scrolling by all the photographs themselves, customers can now ask, “What’s my license plate quantity?” Gemini will pull the quantity for them, utilizing context to determine which automotive belongs to the consumer. 

The “Ask Photographs” function is strictly experimental for now and is accessible to pick US customers as a part of Google Labs. If , you may be a part of the waitlist by going to the Google Photographs web page, scrolling right down to the Ask Photographs part, getting into your Gmail deal with, and clicking the “Be a part of the waitlist” button.