Google has been working on making Android a better place for tablets, and the company hasn’t stopped yet. A new report states that Google will make Google Photos better for tablets. This will mainly influence the photo editing feature of the app.
Editing pictures on Google Photos has always been a very optimized experience for smartphones. You have your photo up top with the options displayed in a carousel on the bottom. However, some people like to use larger screens to edit their photos. If a person wants to use their tablet to edit photos, the app would rotate to portrait orientation.
This will make it pretty frustrating to use because the photo, if taken in landscape orientation, would be shrunken to fit in the portrait orientation. This pushes people to edit on their phones instead.
But, Google is going to make editing in Google Photos on tablets better
This is the latest in a long line of Google products to get much-needed tablet optimizations. According to a tweet from Nail_Sadykov (via Phone Arena), the editing UI in Google Photos will be formatted to work in landscape.
Instead of being pushed to the top, the photo you’re editing will be on the left side, and that will take up most of the screen. On the right side, you will see all of your editing tools. On the upper right of the screen, you’ll see icons for the different categories (Suggestions, Crop, Adjustments, Tools, and Markup).
Under the bar, you’ll see each section expanded with large Material You buttons and UI elements. Under the Adjustments tool, each of the sliders (brightness, contrast, HDR, etc.) will be displayed all on one plane, rather than being separated into their own sections.
So, the interface will be much better suited for people who want to edit photos on their tablets. This is great, as there are a ton of tablets out there that have amazing displays. Editing photos on them should be a breeze.
At this point, we have no idea when Google plans to roll out this change. Since there are live screenshots, it appears that the feature is pretty well developed. Hopefully, Google will roll this out soon. We also can’t rule out the company announcing this during Google I/O which is happening tomorrow.