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I tried Google Photos' new AI Enhance tool: How it crops, relights, and fixes your shots - sometimes

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Why This Matters

Google Photos' new AI Enhance tool offers an automated way to improve photo quality by adjusting lighting, color, cropping, and sharpening, reducing the manual effort needed for editing. Its global rollout to Android users signifies a step forward in making advanced photo editing accessible to everyday consumers. This development highlights the growing role of AI in simplifying digital content creation and editing for both casual users and professionals.

Key Takeaways

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AI Enhance aims to improve the lighting, color, and framing of a photo.

The goal is to reduce the manual steps you may take to fix a bad photo.

Unveiled last year, the tool is rolling out to all Android users worldwide.

I sometimes struggle trying to fix a photo with dark lighting, off colors, or poor framing. I might fiddle with the controls for brightness, contrast, color, cropping, and more. And even then, I still might not achieve the results I want. Now, Google Photos offers an option for all Android users also trying to improve a bad photo.

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AI Enhance is an editing tool in Google Photos that uses AI to try to enhance your photos. The goal is to balance both the lighting and the color of a photo so you don't have to tweak each one individually. But it doesn't stop there. This tool also aims to crop and straighten the photo, as well as sharpen a cropped area.

The feature popped up last year but now is rolling to all Android users around the world, a post from the Google Photos account announced on Monday.

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