Stephen Shank / Android Authority
Change is not always easy, and as long as we resist with it, it is more often than being inevitable. Although our behavior can sometimes make this change more attractive toward acceptance rather than accept this change, it can be very easy to swallow this pill if we assure us that we are moving in a positive direction-that we will at least benefit from this change.
Right now, Google’s images are going through some growing troubles: a moment of temporary stir – and we are really trying to emphasize there, “Temporary” – because the app has introduced a young approach to its editing suit, which makes many users feel confused and frustrated.
Why did Google change my photo editor?
Let’s back up for a second. Google Photos first debuted in 2015, emerging from Google+’s debris, and celebrating its 10th birthday this year, Google announced some changes. These include the QR code scanner has been updated as well as a new editor experience that “provides helpful suggestions and puts all our powerful editing tools in one place.”
Although Google mentioned some concrete changes, such as being able to tap on an image section to obtain amendment proposals, the entire circle of reorganization was not immediately clear. And when Google lost its early June release timetable to distribute updates, it didn’t look like anything bad, Google said seriously that they wanted to correct this refresh.
This is a huge design for our editor – providing all the new helper tips and bringing all our powerful editing tools together in one place – so we are eliminating our time and making sure that it is doing better for users before bringing it to everyone.
This week, on August, the new editor has finally started a large role. Did this extra time paid? Based on the reaction from users, Google wants to take some of these tests a little longer.
Worse, or completely different?
Take new Google photos on your Android device, and it will be similar to it early this week. And even when you tap the “Edit” button, it is still clear that this Google Photo Editor is very high, even when our editing options offer itself in a completely different way.
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The first thing you will see is a permanent crop interface. While you can tap on an edge to start crops immediately in the old UI, here you are less and less Always In the mood of crop, Google practices the options of these crops by parking on your image.
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This is already a huge change, but one thing that is not difficult to get behind. What is more disappointing is that it seems that this change has eliminated the ability to improve the vision during crops – if this option is hidden somewhere in the new UI, we have not seen it yet. Hopefully this is not a permanent surveillance, as it was a very useful tool that we would like.
One of the most frustrating issues is that many of the modification options do not expect you anymore. With this new UI, Google has seriously reorganized where there are many editing tools, and while this new approach is far more understood by the old implementation, keeping everything back is slowing down consumers.
Earlier, Google divided the photo editing options into some important categories:
- Suggestions
- Crop
- Appliance
- Adjust
- Filters
- Mark up
With the new editor, these categories are reviewed to a large extent:
- Auto
- Actions
- Mark up
- Filters
- Lighting
- Color
Even where we have the same category in both interfaces, the powers are changing. For example, if you want to play with Sky options before, you will find a grouping under this control Appliance. In UI with this option (not All Of these tools, finally?), Google has begun to classify it instead Filters:
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Let’s go all these and see what’s – and what not – what. Mark up Offers the same choice with pen, highlights, and text tools. Filters This difference between old filters and sky styles begins, but once you tap, you will see the same choice of filter as you were before, now finally joined with an “auto” option. You can tap the filter once to choose, and then to control the intensity.
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Although it works just as before, Google now gives us a slightly adaptable shape on how these slider are offered.
Actions Offers a combination of pop, sharp, and dinuous properties from old AdjustAll the older together Appliance (Except for sky filters). And if you ever need to be really clear about your intention to harvest an image (despite being able to do so in most places of this new amendment interface), an option remains here.
Lighting Consisting of a substation of options that was in use Adjust – Brightness and vice versa. And the new editor separates the cantridration of options from the old Adjust In a new Color Section, all itself.
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According to Google’s credit, it seems that people are stumbling a bit (at least initially) when they select this new editor, and on the right side you will find an incredibly simple meaging glass icon that describes all the available options available. In one pinch, you can also leave the rest of the interface and work straight from here.
If all this is equivalent to an update, we will offer a little sympathy for the haters, acknowledge that change can be difficult, and suggest that they have a tough upper lip and learn to deal with a new space of many modification options. But this is not a complete story, as we have indicated when we mentioned the disappearance of the disappearance before.
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The Magic Ezar has returned, but in the new photos editing interface, the old cliffs options are no longer displayed. It will recreate the items to help reduce them, without removing them straight. Of course, this is not the one we have used as much as in the removal of the object, but it is still strange to see that it has disappeared indefinitely. We have tried long -pressed buttons and everything we can think of finding the second way to access it, but if it is there, it does not prove too intuitive.
Although we have seen the error of these couple’s feature while trying to list the editor’s reorganization, it is completely possible that there are even more deductions that affect the tools available to you in the new Google editor.
Keep calm, and edit
Putting these missing tools aside, it is difficult to classify this refresh as something other than positive. For all the complaints we have given, mostly “I don’t need to make an extra tap” or “I have to remember where it has moved.”
When we see how Google is now grouping the photo editing options, no rating seems really “wrong” – it’s just “wrong. For us“Because we are accustomed to the old sorting. After a few weeks of experience using this new interface, it will be as familiar as before.
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Get this mental coward in the past, and you are better than learning to appreciate the improvement of the editor that they really offer. The preliminary edit screen now includes the appearance of its auto -edit tips, a good move in the right direction.
There is also a new entertainment way to start tapping TAP on a specific area of an image, and in particular we like it that helps highlight some new and AI -powered tools that long time when they arrive for the first time, photo consumers have highlighted it.
After all, this is still a lot of Google photos we know and love. It’s okay to be a little disappointed when you have to learn a new workflow, but it will definitely be worth your effort. Take some time to comfortably with the new tool placement, and prepare yourself for the next decade of Google Photo.
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