TL;DR
- Google has announced a new face touch-up tool for Photos.
- The tools can adjust various aspects of the face, such as smoothing the skin, removing blemishes, brightening the eyes, and whitening teeth.
- They are gradually becoming available globally on Android devices with 4GB RAM and Android 9 or later.
Google has an interesting way of selling its latest photo editing feature. Announcing its new face touch-up tool, the company says your photos should capture “how you feel in this moment” – something that may come as a surprise to traditionalists who think a photo should show how you really look. Either way, Google is now officially introducing quick retouching options for faces in Google Photos on Android.
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In blog post announcementGoogle says the new tools let you apply “subtle enhancements” that refine skin texture, remove blemishes, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth. You simply tap on a face in the photo, choose from options like heal, smooth, under eyes, iris, teeth, eyebrows or lips and then adjust the intensity to your liking.
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This feature has been a long time coming. In October, we saw code strings pointing to the face retouch tool in Google Photos, as well as tags referencing things like acne, blemishes, dark circles, and teeth whitening. Then in December, we managed to activate the feature ourselves and got a first look at the Touch Up interface, which included individual controls for features like under-eye, iris, teeth, eyebrows, and lips. The video above shows how the tool worked at that time.
Google says touch-up tools are gradually becoming available globally in the Google Photos app for Android devices with at least 4GB of RAM and Android 9 or later. Whether you want your photos to reflect reality or reflect your mood at that moment is completely up to you.
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