Google Photos focuses on sharing with new features

Google Photos is bringing in a number of new features into its service as announced at Google I/O. Google seems to focus on sharing and machine learning in this latest round of updates and we want to talk a bit about those new features. One of them is called Suggested Sharing. When you upload new photos, machine learning will actively search for people you can share photos with. And when you share it with someone, that person will also get suggestions who he can share the photos with. Anyone can be invited to see the photos, even if they don’t have the Google Photos app and they can even invite others to share it with.

Aside from that, you can now have Share Libraries, where you can give your family and friends access to an entire photo library and let anyone share photos when they want. While similar to shared photo albums, the photos are still integrated into your own camera roll. You can search through these photos without having to navigate through a specific photo album. And it even keeps out any extra, non-interesting photos.

Google is also introducing Google Lens in the coming months. What it does is it helps you identify what’s in the photo you took (for example, a flower) and help you edit on-the-go and get rid of obstructions in a picture.

The company is also be offering photo books which come in either soft or hard cover. It’ll have 20 pages by default and have 40 of the best photos. The 7-inch soft cover version goes for US$9.99, while the hard cover goes for $19.99. Additional pages will cost $0.35 for the soft cover and $0.65 for the hard cover. It’s available now on Google Photo’s site and is said to be coming to Android and iOS soon.

Source: Android Central