Google's updated Photos app will have two new features that will soon allow users to favorite their photos or like their friend's photo.
Google Photos Adds Favorites Album
Google announced the new feature in a tweet accompanied by a GIF showing users how it works. Soon, users will be able to mark some photos as a favorite by opening any photo in the library in full-screen mode and tapping the star button on the right-hand corner of the screen. All favorite photos can then be accessed in a Favorites folder in the Albums tab, which will be automatically created as soon as users start tapping that button.
The new feature is supposedly rolling out this week, so the option to favorite any photo may not be available yet. The update should come over the next few days, though, so the wait should not be too long.
Other features coming to the Google Photos app include the ability to "heart" photos shared by a contact. It is yet unknown when this feature is coming, but it should follow the favorite feature.
Google Photos Recently Updated With New Features
Just recently, Google rolled out some of the features it announced during the Google I/O event on May 8 to 10, including AI-powered suggestions. Now, Google Photos can suggest if users want to rotate photos, which is helpful when accidentally taking a landscape picture in portrait mode. The app can also suggest fixing the brightness, adjusting the exposure and making improvements to a photo.
These suggestions will show up right as users view the photos along with the option to hide or archive. To perform an action, they can simply tap on the suggestion or option.
The latest Google Photos update now allows users to play with colors, also with the help of AI.
"In these creations, we use AI to detect the subject of your photo and leave them in color-including their clothing and whatever they're holding-while the background is set to black and white," said Google in its announcement post.
This option is available at the Assistants tab. Adding colors to a black-and-white picture as announced at I/O should also be coming soon.
While these features are helpful, users are still looking for some features that Google has not addressed yet, such as the ability to manually tag people in photos.
A good feature would be captain, auto tags , manual tag for people, so that it give more control to user for search, and a best digital album, while sharing digital album.— Ramratan Gupta (@ramratangupta) May 22, 2018
