Chapter 11

Editing with the Google Photos App

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Using the Google Photos app editing tools

Bullet Applying filters

Bullet Cropping a photo

Bullet Editing your photography

Bullet Editing your Portrait photos

While it’s true that some Android manufacturers offer their own photo editing tools, the Google Photos app is the one I use for this book, as Google Photos is available to everyone — even if you have Apple products. You can take a photo on your Android smartphone and then edit it on your iPad or Mac, or even a family member’s iPhone, if you so desire.

Remember An interesting thing happened to me while writing this chapter. I had the chapter pretty much written when a request popped up on my Google Pixel 4a as a reminder to update to a newer version of Android 11. Suddenly I had a few new photo editing tools at my disposal! Even though I had to do some rewriting, I was happy that I could add some extra ...

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