Google, too, tried to play the social photo game.
“There was a sense in which because everything was public, young people had to constantly curate the idea of themselves in public,” said Mr. The best photos of you were the ones that were ranked highly in your social feed the worst were the ones you didn’t post.īut social media created another set of problems - there was a fear of missing out, a sense of performative anxiety, loneliness and an erosion of privacy. Through services like Flickr, then Facebook and Instagram, we tried to curate our images by getting others to do it for us. More than a decade ago, the tech world hit on one partial solution to picture overload: Make images social. “But that brought about its own problems - it started to get overwhelming.” “With the invention of the smartphone, there was nothing that humans did, absolutely nothing, that they didn’t also make an image of,” said Martin Hand, a sociologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the author of “Ubiquitous Photography,” an academic inquiry into the blessed problem of too many photos. Photos also seems to understand the tone and emotional valence of human interaction, things like smiles, giggles, frowns, tantrums, dances of joy and even snippets of dialogue like “happy birthday!” or “good job!” The resulting montage, synced to a swelling Hollywood score, mixed obvious highlights - birthdays, school plays - with dozens of ordinary moments of childhood bliss.
Google’s computers can recognize faces, even as they age over time. Now in this single two-minute montage, Google Photos had given me a glimpse of the answer. What, one might ask, was the point of capturing all these moments? My obsession has created an archival nightmare videos and pictures of Samara and her older brother, Khalil, both born in the time of smartphones, now span several terabytes - more images than any human might ever have time to meaningfully review. The montage was of my 5-year-old daughter, Samara, whose nearly every waking moment has been thoroughly and permanently memorialized by me, her camera-obsessed father. Then I pressed Play and within 30 seconds, I was a crumpled, weepy wreck. I had seen such A.I.-produced clips before - Facebook’s tone-deaf year-in-review montages are a recurring blight - so I was not expecting much. Instead there was an alert from Photos, letting me know that Google’s image-processing robots had created some kind of montage from my videos. I had looked at my phone one morning in April, expecting more news of global woe. The drawing tool will allow users to edit pictures with drawing tools, including a pen in seven different colours, a highlighter and also a text caption creator.The first time Google Photos made me cry, it was with a sucker punch. As the name suggests, it is the swipe-to-switch feature will allow smartphone users to swipe (up or down) on their Google Account avatar in the top-right corner to switch between the Google accounts. The account switcher feature is said to work pretty much like it does for Gmail. According to developer on Twitter, the firm will introduce an account switcher and drawing tool support. Google also seems to be preparing two new features for its Photos app. As mentioned by 9to5 Google, the new feature is seen in the app versions 4.28 and 4.29. It is also not sure if this feature will be there in iOS.
Google fotogo android#
Since this is a server-side update, not all the Android users will get this feature at once. You can still find the album from the search bar but this is meant to improve the scrolling experience. Although a basic feature, this makes a difference when it comes to long scrolling to find an album. Once selected, the option will be seen in Blue besides the ‘Album’ section. Now, you get two additional options of “Last modified” and “Album title” in which you can arrange the albums.
Although the app arranges album in reverse chronological order with the ‘Most recent photo’ being on top.
Google fotogo update#
It is said that this feature is not a part of an OTA update but a server-side update. As mentioned by 9to5Google, the firm is now letting Android users tweak the arrangement of the albums. And this is limited to Android versions only for now. The firm is making a change in the ‘Albums’ section of the app. Google is making a small yet important change to one of its most-used apps and services on the web, Google Photos.
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