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Google Photos gets ready to make one of its best tools you’re not using even better

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority

TL;DR Google Photos is working on a new set of categories for collage templates.

These categories may ultimately arrive alongside in-development border editing tools.

There’s also signs of a new “Soba” AI-powered video feature.

Are you really taking full advantage of everything Google Photos can do? Besides just being a convenient way to view all our pictures, or perform some basic edits, Photos is packed with some great tools you may not even know about. Today we’re taking a look at an upcoming change to one of those, plus a mysterious new tool we’re only just starting to learn about.

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Over on the Create page in Google Photos, you’ll find the app’s collage tool — this handy feature lets you artistically combine multiple pics into one, perfect for sharing with friends, printing out, or posting to social media. We were already anticipating one big change here, with Photos getting ready to let you edit the appearance of borders in collages. While that one’s still not live, we’ve already got another in-progress tweak to add to our list, as Photos prepares to group collage options by themes.

You might remember when we spotted work on border options, we also saw the collages UI preparing a new button to view available templates. When that’s finally ready to deploy, it now appears that Photos will organize collage templates into the following categories: Featured

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