Google Photos' New Editor Has an 'AI Enhance' Mode

Google Photos has announced a redesigned editor for tweaking your images. Predictably, the new editor adds a few new AI features aimed at helping you choose the right effects and edit photos faster. It also includes out a couple of previously Pixel exclusive editing tools—Auto Frame and Reimagine—although it'll take a bit for everyone to see these updates. 

The redesigned Google Photos editor

With the redesigned Google Photos editor, tapping the Edit button below any photo will show all your editing tools in one place. Freshly, when you're editing a photo, Google Photos will also now offer AI-powered editing suggestions for you. To try this feature, tap to select the background or subject of the photo you're editing, after which the app will show you a few editing suggestions. You'll be able to quickly select your preferred editing tool and make your tweaks without having to navigate to the tool yourself. If even that's too much work, you can also just select the new AI Enhance tool instead, which has Google automatically combine various tools together and give you three results to choose from.

Google says the redesign is rolling out to Google Photos for Android starting next month, and it'll be coming to iOS later this year.

Share albums with a QR code

In the meantime, Google Photos has begun rolling out another new feature that makes it easier to share photo albums with others. The company says you can now generate QR codes for your albums to send to your friends, family, or even to a print shop, in case you want hard copies of your pictures. Anyone can use a generated QR code to access its linked album, but there are sharing controls in place to help you limit who can see or add pictures to it.