All excellent functions photoservice Google+

You can love or ignore Google+ as a social network. But nothing prevents you to use this service to store their photo archives. Its backup capabilities, create slideshows and galleries, edit and publish your photos can not help but delight. We want to give you this feeling, for what and have prepared a detailed review photofeatures Google+ service.

Automatically backup your photos and videos

First of all, Google+ is a convenient means of backing up photos and videos from your phone or computer. Enable Auto-backup, you will no longer need each time to worry about downloading your content manually to the cloud.

Other services, such as Dropbox, too, are able to do this, but Google+ offers one important feature, namely, — unlimited storage space. This means that photos up to 2048 × 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes are not included in your disk quota, which, remember, is 15 GB. To do this simply in Google+ settings or corresponding mobile client, you need to uncheck the option "Upload photos in full size, "then all of your materials will be automatically compressed to standard values, and therefore, will not take up space in your account.

Excellent automatic photo correction and special effects

Built-in automatic optimization of images works brilliantly. With it you can not even pull a very successful photos, including photos add depth and color: adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, light, and heat.

Special mention deserves the automatic imposition of different effects. Clever Google+ algorithms automatically select the appropriate pictures and put them on the interesting effects. For example, in the winter of your photos will appear the falling snow, evening shots will be decorated with twinkling lights, and a sequence of several frames will be glued into a short animation.

Here is the complete list of tricks you can do Google+.

• Snow. Falling snow on top of an image.
• Eraser. Removing foreign objects moving.
• Act. The entire sequence of movements in a single photograph.
• HDR. The combination of fragments with better lighting.
• Animation. Gluing several consecutive shots in a single clip.
• Panorama. The combination of overlapping images.
• Collage. A photobooth-style.

Those who fear such independence of service, need not worry — all original pictures remain unchanged and will be available to you at any time.

All travelers and vacationers certainly interested in the new feature "Stories", about which we wrote in this article. You simply load a series of pictures in one album, and the service will review the content, choose the most successful scenes, combine them with the existing geo and other information and creators beautiful interactive report about your journey.

No less efficiently working function Google+ MoviesThat is able to self-assemble from your present film materials, including the imposition of effects, insert transitions, and even the selection of a suitable background music.

Overlay filters and editing on any device

For those users who do not trust the automatic editing algorithms, there is a built-in photo editor. It is based on the purchased Google Snapseed program, and this is indicative of its quality. It offers all the basic photo editing tools, including rotate, resize, crop, adjust brightness, contrast, white balance, saturation and so on. In addition, there are a lot of creative filters to give your photos a more artistic look.

And the most valuable thing, no matter how you change your photos, you can always go back to them original form, as the originals are stored on Google servers and are available for download any moment.

Built-in "smart" search

Finally we should mention about the built-in search for an image that is simply amazing. The fact that Google is able to recognize many of the objects in the photo and you can search desired pictures according to their content. For example, if the query "flowers" or "sea" you will get a selection of images that contain these objects. It does not always work, but sometimes it turns out to be a very useful feature.

Thus, Google is under the roof of their social network built just the perfect photo service, which has a number of unique features that distinguish it from its competitors. This is another strong plus in the treasury of Google+, in addition to all those that we have described in this article.