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Amazing Google Photos Features That You Should Know

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Google photos is a wonderful application and is also a very popular one among the android users. It has a lot of features for the users which include from the automatic backup of your photos to sharing the pictures to everywhere you want. Whereas there are some more very lesser known interesting and most useful features of this amazing android app that you should know. So, here we go

Amazing Google Photos Features

  • Selecting the assistant button and then the animation button will let you create a neat GIF with a collection of selected photos of your choice. You can choose from 2-50 photos.
  • Google photos application even allows you to make photo collages without the need of any third party application. You can create collages of 2 photos to up to 9 photos. Just click on the assistant tab and then click on collage and select the photos.
  • This app from Google even allows you to do little adjustments to your photos. It can be done by just selecting a photo and then clicking on the edit button with a pencil icon. You can crop the pictures, set the adjustments manually or even select from the preset aspect ratios.
  • Just sit and watch the slideshow of the pictures on your device by simply selecting a photo and then clicking on the three dot icon and then selecting the slideshow.
  • You can back up any device folders to your account. Slide the left sidebar on the screen, click on settings, then select Backup and sync, now tap on backup device folders. It then shows you all the device folders that contain images.
  • You can share the photo from this android app to anywhere you want and to anyone you want. Just click on the photo and then select the share icon shown on the top and it will show you the sharing options. You can easily share to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, WhatsApp, Mail, Messaging and in various apps that you have on your android device.

So, don’t miss to try these things and use the Google Photos app more smartly.

Remove Unnecessary Elements From A Photograph With The Healing Tool

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Sometimes we would like to do some simple editing to the photo. But not every one of us is an expert in photo editing still we would like to impress others with our editing skills. Don’t worry you don’t have to learn Photoshop or Lightroom to present your editing skills in front of your friends. We are now going to introduce you to a simple healing tool using which you can remove any unwanted things from a photograph.

You might have heard of the Snapseed application and it is a popular application these days among selfie addicts. The Snapseed android app has a healing tool inside it which anyone can use almost perfectly with osm simple startup guidance and that is what we are going to give you now.

  • First of all, download the  Snapseed  application from the Android play store
  • Now, open the picture that you wish to edit with the Snapseed edit, now select the healing tool from the list of the tools available on the screen
  • This healing tool can be used on images containing similar patterns and colors as it clones the nearby pixels and makes the image look nice
  • You just drag your finger on the pixels on that particular part of the image which you wish to heal and also you need to double on the section that you need to use as a perfect cloning section

Thus it is this way you can remove the pixels from the image that you think are the unwanted ones in that photo and save that image file after you remove it.

Quickly Search For Things With Just A Photo – Quick Photo Search

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When you got a doubt while reading a book, then what you usually do, you may be referring to a dictionary or an encyclopedia. You may also go on searching for it on the internet. All of these are time taking processes and if you are away from home and don’t have access to a dictionary and encyclopedia. Then you will be left with the option which is searching on the internet. As we all know it is not that easy to find some information on the internet and we all know that when we are in search of something it will present us with many other things and we get easily diverted from our topic. A quick photo search is the need of the hour and will actually make your task simple.

Socratic For Quick Photo Search

So, for this purpose, there is an application available in the Google play store. The Android app is called Socratic and it is available to download for free and you can just download it on your device for free.

When you find something that you think you need a better understanding of, then you can just simply take a photo of it using the camera option in the Socratic app and search for it. It will then present you with the available answers from the internet by searching it online for some related answers.

This wonderful Android app with a quick photo search is even very much helpful in helping your children with their homework. So, do give it a try and get the information at your fingertips without having to struggle with searching for the information online.

You may be knowing about the Photomath application but it is only for math problems whereas this Socratic is for you all kinds of queries. It comes with a cool interface, so do try it for sure and make your life easier.  The app can help you solving various kinds of questions, it may be History, Science, GK, Maths, and many others.

How to Use Microsoft Edge browser’s Continue On PC feature on Android

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We have known about continue to pc option on the Microsoft Edge browser. The Edge browser has been made available for Android and iOS platforms and you can actually resume your browsing on your browser with the same browser and here is how you can do that.

As a first step, you need to link your mobile to the PC

  • Go to Settings on your Windows PC and then click on Phone
  • Then click on the Add Phone option which will open a dialogue box that will ask you to enter your mobile number, then it will share a link that will enable web sharing from any browser
  • It will further ask you to enter your country’s area code and enter the phone number of the device you want the link to be sent to, once entered, click on send
  • You will get a message displayed on the screen that says text sent check your phone
  • Then just close the window to see your phone name appear in the phone menu on your Windows PC
  • Then head to your Android phone, click on the link from the text message you received and install the Microsoft Apps application from the Play store
  • It will enable you to share the web page open in any other browser, just choose the option Continue on PC from the sharing menu
  • You will notice an icon at the bottom that is a smartphone with an outward arrow, click on it
  • You will then see a window pop up, select the device you wish to share the link with, and open it immediately.
  • Or you can also choose to share Continue later and the link will be sent to the action center on your PC.

Hope you learned this new feature on the Microsoft edge browser with our easy step-by-step guide.