In a recent announcement, Google shed some light on Google Photos Blur Update. In this update, the app is getting expanded functionality for Portrait Blur. This will allow it to be used on almost all the faces in your images. Thus allowing you to quickly blur before sharing online.
Coming soon to the Photos app on Android. Users will be able to use the Portrait Blur effect on photos of a wide range of subjects, like pets, food, and plants.
Google says that since the Portrait Blur effect takes place after capture. The new expanded offering can work on photos taken recently or even those captured “years ago,” and even if portrait mode wasn’t available at the time.
Google Photos Blur Update
Currently, Google Photos Portrait Blur is available only for Pixel smartphone users or Google One subscribers. Additionally, devices must have at least 3GB of RAM and be running Android 8 or above.
And when it comes to photo editing, users can take full advantage of Google Photos’ powerful editing tools. That have existed since the feature first launched.
They have included tools for manual editing. That includes tools such as color adjustments and effects, and have also allowed users to capture and save photos directly from the photo library.
Photos have made it even easier to create galleries and collections of photos by grouping photos by categories. Such as food, flowers, and pictures of friends and family. This way you can easily navigate your collections to find the photos that you want to edit with this new photo blur feature.
The face and photo blur feature will be a hit amongst people who create a lot of content amongst strangers. So quickly being able to blure the faces and all associated stuff saves time and effort before uploading any of the stuff to social media platforms.