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Google brings face shortcuts back to search in Photos app: How it works

Google Photos is bringing back face shortcuts in search, making it easier to quickly find photos of people and pets using face grouping

Google Photos update brings new tools for video editing: Check what's new

Google Photos now adds templates, a redesigned editor, music options, text tools and clip-editing features to help users create simple and polished highlight videos easily

Google Photos lets you recap 2025 memories with Gemini-powered highlights

Google Photos' 2025 Recap uses Gemini to pick your best moments, add new stats like selfie counts, and offer sharing through WhatsApp and CapCut

Snapchat limits 'Memories' storage from unlimited to 5GB, offers paid plans

Snapchat is capping free Memories storage at 5GB, with paid plans for extra space, changing how users save and access their Snaps and Stories

Snapchat adds forever chats and group streaks for snappers: How it works

Snapchat rolls out Infinite Retention for saving chats and Group Streaks for collaborative streaks, giving users more control and flexibility in conversations

Adobe updates Photoshop across platforms with new AI tools: What's new

Adobe Photoshop gets new features like Harmonize, generative upscale, and improved remove tool. With these, Adobe aim to simplify editing on Photoshop across desktop, web, and mobile platforms

Switching to Android: How to move iCloud photos, videos to Google Photos

Here is a step-by-step guide to help you transfer your photos and videos saved on Apple's iCloud to Google Photos

No crop, no black borders: Instagram now let user post 3:4 frame shots

The new Instagram format supports both single images and carousels, ensuring 3:4 photos display without black bars, awkward crops, or formatting issues

Videos perform better than static photo posts, says Instagram's Mosseri

At WAVES Summit, Instagram head Adam Mosseri says videos outperform static content on average while emphasising India's role in driving platform trends and engagement

HC sends notices to Centre, 4 states for 'illegal' use of woman's picture

The Bombay High Court has deprecated the "commercial exploitation" and illegal use of a woman's photograph without her consent in government advertisements and issued notices to the Centre and four state governments. The woman, Namrata Ankush Kawale, in her plea said her picture taken by a photographer, an acquaintance, was uploaded on the website 'Shutterstock.com' without her consent and knowledge. The photo has since then been used unauthorisedly by the state governments of Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and Odisha and the Union Ministry of Rural Development and some private entities on their websites, hoardings and other advertisements, she alleged. A division bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Advait Sethna, in its order on March 10, said the issues raised in the plea were "quite serious, considering the contemporary times of an electronic era and social media". "Prima facie, it appears to be a commercial exploitation of the petitioner's photograph," the HC said. The bench

Adobe brings free Photoshop app to phones, targeting younger users

Adobe has now released a free version for Apple's iPhone, with an Android app coming soon

Google Photos: Soon, these AI tools will be available on Android, iOS app

Select AI editing tools, including Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, and Photo Unblur, are set to arrive soon on Google Photos app for Android and iOS

Google Photos could get 'Show more' option for faces in Memories: Report

Google Photos has a Memories feature where it categorises images based on faces. Reportedly, it is set to get a new option to let users have granular control over faces for personalised experience

Google's revolutionary AI-powered Ask Photos feature may be released soon

Announced at Google I/O 2024, the Ask Photos makes it easier and simpler to search for what you want in thousands of photos and videos in Google Photos app

Adobe to bring tool for AI image generation to Photoshop this year

Adobe is developing its own image-generation AI system called Firefly, which is trained on data that Adobe has rights to, in order to avoid copyright infringement claims against users

Getty Images working with Nvidia to debut its own AI image generator

Getty, which holds the rights to millions of photographs, earlier sued Stability AI, the company that popularized the image generator Stable Diffusion, for using images without permission

2024 iPhone would have Apple Vision Pro headset connection: Details here

Following Vision Pro launch in 2024, media reports hint, Apple would introduce Ultra model in the iPhone line with camera system capable of capturing spatial photos and videos

Apple to discontinue Photo Stream on July 26: Here is how to save photos

After July 26, My Photo Stream users will no longer have access to their photos on Apple devices unless their iCloud is set up

Google Photos gets new editing features for One subscribers on web

Google has added new editing features to the photo sharing and storage service 'Google Photos', including Portrait Light, Portrait Blur and Dynamic, for Google One (cloud storage service) subscribers

Trillium Capital values Getty Images at $3.95 bn in all-cash buyout bid

Trillium, which holds over 500,000 shares of Getty Images, offered to buy the rest at $10 apiece, representing a premium of nearly 98% to the stock's last close