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Xiaomi has slightly redesigned its gallery app for its update to MIUI 13, although you can enjoy all the news from the gallery with previous versions such as MIUI 12. Now we will show you how take full advantage of the Xiaomi gallery, one of the best additions to the customization layer and it comes with a lot of features natively that will save you from having to install other third party apps.

Watermark your photos

One of the coolest tricks of the company’s new gallery is that you can add watermark to gallery images. This way you can make it clear that an image is yours so that it cannot be used. You can put whatever name you want, but it must have a maximum of 14 characters.

• Click on the image you want to see in full screen.
• Select Add Watermark.
• Write the name you want to display in the picture.

Cut with perspective

If you are not happy with the angle at which you took a photo, or if you just want to change the angle, you can make a cut in perspective, This will be done automatically or manually, depending on your preference. You just need to manually move the corners where you want them to for the cropping to take place.

• Click on the image you want to adjust to see it in full screen
• Click on Adjust.
• Tap the crop icon to adjust it manually.

Cut out your silhouette and place yourself on another image

The new Xiaomi gallery also incorporates novelties in terms of cutting the silhouette of people, so that you can cut out your figure and place it on a personalized background. It is a cropping which is carried out automatically and whether the image is a photo in portrait mode or not. You can choose the built-in backgrounds from the gallery or choose another image as the background.

• Select one or more photos in the image stream by holding them down.
• Click Creativity.
• Click Cut.
• Tap the Gallery button.
• Adjust your figure until you are happy and save.

Use smart filters

Smart filters also have their place in the Xiaomi app, and you can use them to change the look of images people appear in. These filters can be of different types, and recognize the shape of people in photos to be applied only to the background, at least in some types.

• Select one or more photos in the image stream by holding them down.
• Click Creativity.
• Dale an art.
• Select the filter you want.

Create a collage

Yes, on the other hand, if you want to create a collage by joining different images, you can do that. based on models that position photos in various ways, in addition to having the possibility of having a text or the date. These are the most interesting pre-designed templates that you can edit as well, besides being able to adjust every image in the collage.

• Select multiple photos from the gallery.
• Click Creativity.
• Tap Collage.
• Select the model you like the most.

Create a personalized video

On the other hand, there is also the possibility to create a presentation video with the photos you select, for which there are also several pre-designed templates that will help you to do it more easily. You can compress all images into 10 seconds of video, or allow it to last longer, something ideal to share on social media. Moreover, you can also change the audio and even edit the order in which they are displayed.

• Select multiple images.
• Click Creativity.
• Dale a clip

Review the images you deleted

You might have accidentally deleted an image, but luckily Xiaomi has a recycle bin that’s more comprehensive than ever and will show you how much is left before they’re automatically deleted. In addition to being able to delete them all automatically.

• Go to the Albums page.
• Tap the recycle bin

Access files according to their extension

If you have many image files with different extension than usual, like for example GIF files, the gallery itself will group them together so that you can see a folder with each of them. This is a very interesting addition to avoid having to navigate between the different folders on your mobile looking for a specific type of file.

• Go to the Albums page.
• Click GIF or the file name that comes out.

Save space by deleting photos

If you have too many images in the gallery, you can go to the smart cleaner to quickly remove duplicates and similar images that you may not want to keep. Once you have analyzed the images, it will divide them into different sections so that you can decide what to erase and what to keep.

• Go to the Albums page.
• Click on cleaner.
• Select from the different categories what you want to delete.

See more images in the main stream

As in Google Photos and formerly in the legendary Sony gallery, the new gallery of the Chinese company allows you to zoom out or zoom in on enlarge or reduce the size of the images that are seen in each album, so that you can have a more complete or more precise overview of the photographs that you have saved on your Xiaomi mobile or tablet.

• Go to the Photos main screen.
• Zoom in or out with your fingers

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