{"id":389318,"date":"2026-04-20T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:08:08","slug":"google-photos-adds-new-touch-up-tools-for-quick-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389318\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos adds new touch-up tools for &#8216;quick&#8217; fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Photos\u2019 image editor is getting new touch-up tools to allow users to apply subtle edits and fixes, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/photos\/new-touch-up-tools-google-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Monday. You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, whiten teeth, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can access the touch-up tools by selecting a face in a photo, then choosing which tool you want to use: heal, smooth, under eyes, irises, teeth, eyebrows, or lips. Once you choose a tool, you can adjust the intensity of the effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"680\" width=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-4.19.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3114361\"  \/>ScreenshotImage Credits:Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new touch-up tools are gradually rolling out globally in the Google Photos app on Android devices with at least 4 GB RAM and Android 9.0 and up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By launching its own touch-up tools, Google is likely hoping that people will stay within Google Photos when editing their images instead of navigating to a third-party app to do so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12187675\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">studies<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/health.clevelandclinic.org\/social-media-and-body-image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shown<\/a> that constantly retouching photos may be harmful and lead to negative emotions, low self-esteem, or body image issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Photos\u2019 image editor is getting new touch-up tools to allow users to apply subtle edits and fixes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6015,367,19837,111,139,69,61725,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-389318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-photos","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-photo-editing","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}