Google Announces ‘All Access’ Music; New Photo Service ‘Removes Wrinkles’
...The company said it would make its data centers “your dark room” for photographs, to simplify the process of uploading photos. The company is providing 15 gigabytes of photo storage for free, to accommodate full-resolution photos of 8 megapixels to 13 megapixels.
The service will also perform analysis of batches of photos to eliminate duplicates, and blurry images, and pick out the best shots, in order to reduce the burden of selecting those to post, it said. The company also noted several “auto enhancements” that will improve photographs, such as “skin softening” to remove wrinkles in a portrait, and landscape analysis to give more depth to a picture of a cloudy sky.
One feature will go through a selection of similar shots, and, if not everyone is smiling, will assemble a new picture where each person's smiling shot is combined with everyone else's, so that “everyone is smiling.” ...MORE
