Google is not ready to give up on its’ social network yet. They are always trying hard to bring more innovative new features to this social network to make it stand out from the crowd. Just recently, Google+ received a cool new feature that you don’t get to see on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest or most other social networks, an awesome web-based photo editor.
Usually, most of the Android users have to use a different photo editing app or something like Instagram to style their photos with cool effects and save it as a separate file before uploading them to Google+. I used to do that and it was a pain in the A.. Thanks to this new update I won’t even have to use Instagram ever again because now I can add Instagram like retro, vintage, drama and more cool effects with this Google+ tool.
After uploading a photo you can now edit it to adjust the size, focus of the image, brightness, contrast, warmth and more. After trying it out, I was able to add an awesome retro look to this still from Fast 6. The best part is that you can customize the strength of these effects, which you don’t get to do in apps like Instagram. You can definitely expect Facebook to copy this feature very soon.
After hitting “Done” all the applied changes will be saved into the same file. Which means those changes will overwrite your existing photo. So, be careful when you edit a photo. Although, you don’t have to worry about making accidental changes because there’s an option that allows you to revert all changes back to how it was at any time. How awesome is that, right?
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Only downside to this new tool is that it only works on Google Chrome because it’s a Native Client app. Since I got Chrome default on my laptop, it’s not a problem for me, but this could be annoying for other Google+ users who logs into their account via browsers like Safari or Firefox. Well, I’m sure those browsers will receive the ability to power Native Client apps very soon.
Check out the video to see some of the cool stuff you can do with it.
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