Google Photos is testing radical settings designed so you can edit your photos.
Google Photos introduces a new interface for the app’s photo editing segment, as revealed recently in several Twitter screenshots posted through the opposite engineering expert, Jane Manchun Wong.
The application design replaces the existing carousel with small cryptic icons with descriptive text buttons. Tap one of those buttons to see a variety of new buttons on much larger, similar icons for individual editing purposes, such as blur, exposure, or contrast. These also come with clear text descriptions below.
For example, tapping the new ‘Suggestions’ button at the left for the screen pops up what Google’s recommendations for suggested picture enhancements, such as automatic adjustment, black and white mode, and ‘color pop.’
The new layout is not available at the time of writing. Wong regularly discovers new features from the beginning by searching for them in an application’s code-behind and locating tactics to activate them. However, another Twitter user, BangSAT_RIA97, has since responded with a screenshot of their own smartphone that also turns out to have access to the new Google Photos interface. This may mean that some lucky users will get the new interface earlier as a component of an official test.
This more descriptive design will allow users to search for features through calls instead of having to decrypt and not forget unknown symbols, and I think this will make the app more available to new users. Touching an unknown icon can scare the technophobes, so even a description of a word will help mitigate this problem.
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