Google gives Photos app more video editing features like cropping and filters

Google has released an update to the Photos app that allows users to crop videos, add filters, and more precisely adjust brightness and contrast, among other things. The app also gets more machine learning features from Pixel phones.

With the video editor, users can now crop movies, change the perspective of a video and add filters to a movie, Google writes. Users can also precisely adjust brightness, contrast and saturation, the company claims. Users can now adjust thirty aspects of a video, according to Google. Android users will get these features in the coming weeks, iOS users will already have these new features.

Google is also announcing that Google One subscribers will receive more features that were previously only available to owners of Google’s Pixel phones. These are Portrait Blur and Portrait Light. Portrait Blur allows users to blur the background of a portrait photo, Portrait Light allows the user to add an extra light source to the photo. With the update, these functions no longer require the depth information of a photo, which allows older photos with these functions to be adjusted as well. For these two portrait functions, Google uses machine learning.

One subscribers also get the Dynamic and sky suggestions filter options, both of which also use machine learning. Dynamic adjusts an image’s brightness and contrast “as needed” to produce a “more dramatic, more balanced” image, the company says. Sky suggestions allow users to adjust the sky in a photo, to simulate, for example, a sunset or sunrise. One subscribers will receive the mentioned functions in the coming days, although Google does indicate that they need at least 3GB of memory and Android version 8.0 for the machine learning functions.

Left the original, right with sky suggestions