Whether or not you might be an iOS or Android consumer, Google Photographs is a good picture storage and sharing service with options comparable to Magic Editor and Ask Photographs. Nevertheless, one very primary characteristic was lacking till this week — a photograph flip choice. 

First noticed by Android Police, customers can now flip or mirror their pictures from the Google Photographs app. Though which will sound like a basic characteristic, the essential edit capabilities solely allowed customers to crop, rotate, or regulate an image’s side ratio earlier than this replace. 

Some useful situations of mirroring a picture embody taking a selfie on an iPhone, which is robotically set to invert your selfie digital camera, protecting the actual orientation of the picture. 

This can be a private pet peeve of mine as a result of I typically need my selfies to appear like what I see within the mirror. Nevertheless, I am unable to get myself to activate the “mirror font digital camera” setting as a result of, typically, having the precise orientation is best. 

Different useful situations for mirroring a picture embody pictures, including steadiness and symmetry, or correcting orientation. Even if you cannot consider a use case now, it’s good to have the choice the place all of your photos are saved with out downloading them again to your cellphone simply to carry out this primary operate.

Nevertheless, a extra thrilling characteristic in Google Photographs is the “Ask Photographs” characteristic. By leveraging AI, customers can ask the chatbot to discover a picture, as a substitute of looking out by means of 1000’s of images themselves. 

For instance, throughout the demo of the characteristic at Google I/O, as a substitute of typing within the key phrase “license plate” and scrolling by means of all the pictures themselves, customers can now ask, “What’s my license plate quantity?” Gemini will pull the quantity for them, utilizing context to determine which automobile belongs to the consumer. 

The “Ask Photographs” characteristic is strictly experimental for now and is on the market to pick US customers as a part of Google Labs. If , you’ll be able to be a part of the waitlist by going to the Google Photographs web page, scrolling right down to the Ask Photographs part, getting into your Gmail tackle, and clicking the “Be part of the waitlist” button.