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CNET News - Google+ packed with photo darkroom features

2013-05-15
Photography is very labor-intensive it's takes a lot of time at Google we think we can give you some of your time back by combining your camera with our cloud we can do some of those labor-intensive tasks automatically for you in fact today we'd like to introduce the notion of Google it's Google's data centers being your new darkroom now what does that mean but when you think of the cloud most of us think of backup but today we're going to go beyond backup and we're going to talk about three exciting new areas that combine the data center Google's cloud with photography now let's talk about highlight what you're looking at is 686 of my vacation photos from my trip to New Zealand Google can pick the best pictures for you we can go from these 686 pictures to these it's remarkably accurate now let's talk about enhancing your images today we're introducing auto enhance we can automatically take an image that looks like this and make it look like this things like tonal distributions skin softening noise reduction structure vignette Ingrid perfect let's talk about skin softening let's zoom in on this picture a little bit wrinkles right watch what happens when we apply skin softening just gently tone down let's zoom all the way out that's the original image that's with skin softening enhancements just gently and beautifully enhanced let's talk about noise reduction now maybe you've taken a picture in low light well our noise reduction filters can automatically take something that looks like this and make it look like that so here's an image untouched out of the camera and we're gonna start layering on these enhancements let's begin with tonal enhancement okay let's add some skin softening before and after on the skin softening now let's add some structure for the clouds let's add a vignette to emphasize the human face and let's go before and then Auto enhance by Google pretty amazing isn't it now let's talk about awesome we're introducing five Auto awesome effects today auto-awesome creates a new image from one that did not exist we recognize that you've taken several pictures in burst mode or taken around the same time together we will automatically gift to you in your album something that looks like this you
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