First, Google plans to automatically make your pictures better. A feature called Auto Enhance will analyze and apply tweaks to your uploaded photos. From what we’ve heard on stage, this will include simple adjustments like brightness, contrast, color correction, noise reduction, tonal distribution, and saturation, but it will also make some more intensive changes. One demonstration showed how Google detects faces and will automatically blur out skin there to hide zits, for instance.
There’s also something called “Auto Awesome.” By detecting the kinds of photos you take, Google is going to try to make other improvements. For example, if you upload a series of similar photos taken in a short period of time Google will automatically make an animated GIF out of it. If you upload a set of group photos it will stitch together one picture so that everyone is smiling. It will also make auto panoramas and HDR photos if you upload the right kinds of pictures.
The company is also going to pick out the best ones out of everything you’ve uploaded. By using algorithms, a feature called Auto Highlight will skip over blurry photos, duplicates, and underexposed shots, for instance, and choose the “best” photos to show off. Ideally, you’ll be able to upload 600 pictures from your vacation straight to Google+ and not worry about having to sift through and pick the best ones to share.
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Oh yeah, this looks legitimate.
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Los Angeles County fire helicopter filling up at the Silver Lake Reservoir moments ago.
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Exquisite Corpse screening in Los Angeles!
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The Los Angeles bicycle parking logo is the same as the Portishead logo!
Current status.
This was a long time in the making. Congratulations, Adam!
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