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I upgraded to 2TB of storage since 15GB just wasn’t cutting it. Two years later, I’m already at a whopping 200GB!
similar on the 2TB, but at 500GB. Having toddlers will do that. I'm trying to capture so much.
Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance. Stop. Move in. Stop. Pull out, track right. Stop. Center and Pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and Pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute. Go right. Stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Gimme a hard copy right there.
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Sure, the company of the "I don’t know how to count that low" meme cares about 12MB.
Of course they don't. But if even a small percentage of their userbase uses this on even a small percentage of their photos, that amounts to a massive amount of storage. It doesn't cost Google very much to store all those images, but those users will have to pay for more storage. Even thought it isn't significant to Google when a single person does it, it becomes highly significant when millions of people do it.
I think it's more likely that they're doing it because they think it makes their product better, increasing sales that way instead.
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> lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. "They" could be just about any major software vendor as of late, it's hardly specific to Google.
Apple is avoiding it more somewhat, but perhaps more due to being behind on the tech itself
Not to mention the dark patterns that attempt to trick you into backing up your entire photo library, over and over again.
Or the inability to exclude folders from the backup process.
Maybe get the basic expectations of a Photo app right before adding features nobody asked for.
What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…
I use zero of the new AI tools, but they took away the one tool I really want.
They claim they'll bring it back...sometime.
"Perspective tools – Our team is working to restore these"
What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…
It can geotag, you can install the separate Recognize app to have a local model recognize faces, which it does quite well.
I can also, if I wish, just look at the files.
What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…
And they took away the one editing feature I use the most -- the perspective correction tool. I take a lot of photos of documents, and to avoid shadows I often can't take the photo from above, so used to use the perspective tool to square up the document. I use zero of the new AI tools, but they took away the one tool I really want. They claim they'll bring it back...sometime. "Perspective tools – Our team is working…
Simple cropping is difficult, now.
On my pixel fold, it undoes zooming, when cropping, making fine crops impossible.
I've complained into the ether, and even the Feedback feature is broken. The screenshot part shows a black screen. It's a nightmare of regressions.
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Oh no. What did they remove?
The biggest function I'm missing is the keystone transformation, but magic eraser is now a cloud-only function that is much worse, they have rearranged the controls so in a way that separated some of the color corrections, and the resize edit handles for the functions that are still available are now rounded in a way that makes it much less clear what you are doing.
It does not erase A LOT of things it used to.