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One of the side effects of the majority of people using their cell phone as a camera is that they need smartphones with a lot of internal memory or, what is increasingly common, they need use a cloud storage service. In Europe one of the most common is Google Photos, since it is preinstalled on all Android phones and compatible with iOS.

This service is not the only one that can be used since there are others like Amazon Photos which are cheaper, although less known. But the benefits of Google Photos aren't just about its affordable prices or its integration with the rest of the Google ecosystem. This application also It is a tool to edit photos in a simple way.

For many years, users of the application have been able to edit photos in a simple way by entering the editing menu and cropping the image, changing the contrast, brightness or using different filters. It's not something different from what other apps like Instagram do, but Since the app focuses on storing photos and not sharing them, it is more comfortable to use.

But this type of assembly was not new, it had been used on cell phones for years, practically since smartphones began to integrate cameras. However, in recent years Artificial intelligence has become a much more advanced way of editing images. We've seen it in desktop applications like Photoshop, but also in other programs.

Samsung launched Galaxy AI during the presentation of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and thus opened the door to photo editing using artificial intelligence to the general public. With the built-in options, you could create illustrations, put objects in images… We have already tested this new technology and noted its potential, but also some of its flaws.

These functions were obviously only available for Samsung phonesbut not for everyone, only for the most powerful. Then they came to foldables and recently they did it with the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. But even though Samsung sells many mobile phones in Europe, this option is not for everyone.

This is where Google Photos and its new advanced editing tools come in. with artificial intelligence. These new features were paid until recently, but Google has decided to make them accessible to everyone, including users of free plans, as it did with Gemini Live.

This new functionality allows edit photo items to remove themsomething that was already available, but also for change your shape. The Magic Editor allows us to select a part of the photos to move it or change the size, or both at the same time. To do this, simply open a photo, click on the Edit icon then select Magic Editor from the colored icon at the bottom left.

When we enter the new editing window, we will be asked to hold down the screen to select the object in question. It can be a person, an item or anything we want. The automatic selection does not always choose the object perfectly but if we click on the button Adjust selection We can add or remove parts of it to get the precisely defined object.

Once this is done, we can pinch it to change its size, making it bigger or smaller. Keep in mind that if it's an object that casts shadows, you need to select the shadows as well. Once this is done, click on the colored arrow in the lower left corner and we will see how the system uses AI to change the size of the object but, above all, to fill in the gaps left behind.

Since this won't always do it perfectly, this gives us several options, and we can choose any of them to save as copywhich will prevent us from losing the original image. In addition, it is possible to ask the system, if we do not like any of the four, to generate more options.

Using this tool is practical to completely modify the elements that are in the image, but also to move objects that weren't framed perfectly from the edge of the photo. With a little help, smart generation will be able to recompose the element and remove it from the scene completely. Of course, this is very complicated to achieve depending on the elements, such as hair, vegetation, etc.

To this function alone, Google has added others that also use AI, such as Magic Eraser that we already knew or the one that increases the sharpness of old photos, which allows us to recover images taken with cameras that did not have much resolution or to improve images that came out blurry but that we did not want delete because we have no better options.

Dentro de unas semanas se espera que llegue a Google Fotos una herramienta aún más potente, que permite reencuadrar cualquier imagen de forma automática y otra que nos dejará editar las fotos con IA. Esta última será parecida a la que ya tienen marcas como Samsung, pero integradas dentro de Google Fotos. Por ahora no se sabe si será algo exclusivo de los Pixel, de los usuarios de pago de Google One o estará disponible para todo el mundo con una cuenta en Google.