{"id":341231,"date":"2017-05-18T02:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1491946"},"modified":"2017-05-18T02:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:15:03","slug":"google-photos-upgraded-with-new-sharing-features-photo-books-and-google-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/google-photos-upgraded-with-new-sharing-features-photo-books-and-google-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos upgraded with new sharing features, photo books, and Google Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google today announced an upgrade for its popular Google Photos application, which is now being used by 500 million people every month. The app now has a new social feature called Suggested Sharing, which uses facial recognition to suggest which photos you should send to your friends and family. Another option called Shared Libraries will allow you to automatically share either all your photos or a subset of your photos with specific people \u2013 like a best friend or partner \u2013 for example.<\/p>\n

The company also announced it will offer photo books and will integrated Google Lens into Google Photos.<\/p>\n

Suggested Sharing is a lot like the functionality today included in Facebook\u2019s standalone private sharing app, Facebook Moments.<\/p>\n

The Google Photos app will identify who from your Google Contacts is in your photo, and then give you a nudge to share your photos with them from the app.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Anil Sabharwal showed how this feature would work during an onstage demo at Google\u2019s developer conference, Google I\/O.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after you take a photo, a notification would\u00a0pop up saying\u00a0something like \u201c5 new photos with Dave, Jason, and Meghan. Share with them?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

You can then respond to this alert to share your photos automatically. For those who don\u2019t have the app, Google Photos will even send an\u00a0SMS notification.<\/p>\n

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A second feature called Shared Libraries is designed to make it easier to share with the select people in your life who you\u2019re very close with \u2013 like a family member, best friend or partner.<\/p>\n

In the Google Photos app, you\u2019ll be able to turn on a setting that will automatically share photos with these designated contacts. But you don\u2019t have to share your entire library, says\u00a0Sabharwal. Instead, you can choose toggle on a feature that lets you only share photos containing a particular\u00a0individual (or multiple persons).<\/p>\n

For example, a wife could automatically share all photos of her two children with her partner, where they would be automatically available on his or her smartphone, as well.<\/p>\n

The recipient can also choose to save these photos to their own device.<\/p>\n

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A third feature \u2013 which had been previously scooped by Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is the launch of photo books.<\/p>\n

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With the update, Google Photos will be able to identify your best photos and offer them up as physical, printed photo books. It may also suggest you buy a book when it detects an event has taken place \u2013 like you\u2019ve just returned from a family vacation, for example.<\/p>\n

Google will offer both\u00a0softcover or hardcover books, and Google Photos will pick\u00a040 photos it thinks are the best. The softcover books will cost $9.99, while hardcover will cost $19.99.<\/p>\n

Photo books will be available on the desktop starting now, and will arrive on\u00a0iOS and Android next week.<\/p>\n

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The move into photo books will challenge Apple, Amazon and older photo printing companies, like Shutterfly. Apple users can currently print books from the Photos application on their Mac, starting at $10 for 8\u00d76 inch, 20-page softcover books, and going as high as $50 for a 13\u00d710, 20-page custom hardcover with its own dust jacket.<\/p>\n

Amazon, too, introduced its own photo printing service<\/a> last fall, undercutting rivals. Essentially a perk for Prime members, as it requires that photos are stored in Amazon Drive, its photo books start at $20 for its hardcover and layflat books.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s photo books are competitive with both of these options.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Google announced that Google Lens \u2014 the machine learning system that tells you things about what your camera is seeing \u2014 is also coming into Google Photos.<\/p>\n

This will allow you to ask questions about pictures you\u2019ve already taken.<\/p>\n

For example, if you\u2019re looking at a screenshot you saved of a company\u2019s website and there\u2019s a phone number, you can just tap it to call.<\/p>\n

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\"\" Google today announced an upgrade for its popular Google Photos application, which is now being used by 500 million people every month. The app now has a new social feature called Suggested Sharing, which uses facial recognition to suggest which photos you should send to your friends and family. Another option called Shared Libraries will allow you to automatically share either all your photos… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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