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It's all about the angle: Your photos, re-composed

Marcos Seefelder, Staff Software Engineer, Platforms & Devices, and Pedro Velez, Senior Research Engineer, Google Deepmind We introduced a new approach for editing images, now live in the Auto frame feature in Google Photos, allowing users to re-imagine photos from a new perspective after they have been taken. Quick links Auto frame feature Google Photos Share Copy link × Have you ever looked back at your camera roll and wished you had captured a scene slightly differently? Maybe you wish you had caught a bit more of one side of a face, or positioned the camera slightly lower to get the perfect shot. Perhaps it’s a selfie with a perfect smile, but the wide-angle lens makes you look somewhat unfamiliar. Usually, these are the "almost perfect" shots we settle for, because the moment has passed, and it is not possible to retake the picture. While cropping and zooming may help, classic image editing tools won’t fix the underlying problem: the image is still showing the scene from a fixed, imperfect perspective. …

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22 Apr 2026 17:00 UTC