{"id":23866,"date":"2026-04-21T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23866"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:18:51","slug":"google-photos-adds-touch-up-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/google-photos-adds-touch-up-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos adds touch-up features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first week at Google in 2014, I was asked to send a company-wide dogfood email about automatic teeth whitening in Photos. We got <em>draaaaaged<\/em> hard by offended Googlers, &amp; the feature never launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The important lesson: cosmetic stuff can be welcome, but <strong>only as opt-in<\/strong>, not as AI-imposed judgement of your appearance. I used to liken the difference to my wife walking through a department store &amp; being offered a makeover by a beauty products salesperson\u2014versus that person simply grabbing her &amp; applying the makeup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, now you can opt into using these features in Photos (only on Android at the moment, it appears):<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New touch-up tools are now rolling out in Google Photos to help you make quick, subtle fixes \u2014 like refining skin texture, brightening eyes, or whitening teeth. You&#8217;re in total control of the chosen effect intensity for every face in the frame. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CqgbNXjPIm\">pic.twitter.com\/CqgbNXjPIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google Photos (@googlephotos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlephotos\/status\/2046302732139852201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first week at Google in 2014, I was asked to send a company-wide dogfood email about automatic teeth whitening in Photos. We got draaaaaged hard by offended Googlers, &amp; the feature never launched. The important lesson: cosmetic stuff can be welcome, but only as opt-in, not as AI-imposed judgement of your appearance. I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23867,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions\/23867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}