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The video provides a comprehensive comparison of the photo editing capabilities of Google Photos, Samsung Gallery, and Apple Photos, using the Pixel 7 Pro, S23 Ultra, and 14 Pro Max, respectively. Key features evaluated include cropping, rotating, and image enhancement options.
Google Photos is noted for its flexibility with auto leveling, unblur, and sky adjustment features, while Samsung Gallery excels with its "Snap to Shape" feature, unique shadow/reflection erasing capabilities, and portrait effects. Apple Photos, although effective, generally trails behind in flexibility and options but offers a range of portrait lighting effects.
When it comes to filters, Google Photos offers the most variety, but Samsung Gallery allows for custom filter creation and additional downloads. Both Google Photos and Samsung Gallery include advanced tools like spot color highlighting and cinematic photos, which Apple Photos lacks.
In terms of collage and GIF creation, Samsung Gallery provides more flexibility and creative options compared to Google Photos, which lacks comprehensive GIF editing features. Lastly, the video concludes with Samsung Gallery emerging as the overall winner, followed by Google Photos, with Apple Photos in third place. The speaker invites viewers to engage in discussions about the comparison.
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In this segment, the video creator compares Google Photos, Samsung Gallery, and Apple Photos in terms of image editing capabilities using the Pixel 7 Pro, S23 Ultra, and 14 Pro Max, respectively. The scoring system grants points based on the presence and quality of features across the apps. Key features discussed include cropping and rotating, with all three apps offering precise sliders and basic rotation buttons. Google Photos uniquely offers auto leveling for perfect alignment, earning it a higher score. For aspect ratio changes, Google Photos offers five options, whereas Samsung and Apple offer eight, resulting in higher scores for the latter two. The ability to mirror images is exclusive to Samsung Gallery and Apple Photos. For tilting or swiveling images, Google Photos offers more flexibility but lacks precision compared to the horizontal and vertical sliders available in Samsung and Apple.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker compares photo editing features across Google Photos, Samsung Gallery, and Apple Photos. They discuss cropping and rotating, noting that Google Photos offers flexibility with an auto mode for automatic selection and AI-assisted straightening, giving it a slight edge. However, Samsung Gallery stands out with its unique Snap to Shape feature and wins this category overall, followed by Apple Photos and Google Photos.
Next, the speaker evaluates filters, highlighting that all apps allow filter intensity adjustments. Apple Photos offers 9 filters, Samsung Gallery 12 with the ability to download more and create custom filters, and Google Photos provides 19 filters. Samsung Gallery ranks first, followed by Google Photos and lastly Apple Photos.
In the photo enhancement category, Google Photos is the only app that can unblur images, earning it a point. All three apps offer automatic enhancement options, which adjust settings to improve photo quality.
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In this part of the video, the speaker compares photo editing features across Samsung Gallery, Google Photos, and Apple Photos. Key features discussed include the default enhance option, which works similarly across all devices, and Samsung Gallery’s exclusive “remaster picture” feature for improving old, blurry photos. The speaker notes that Google Photos generally provides better enhancement results when combining the default enhance and unblur effects.
In the category of enhancing image quality, Google Photos ranks first, followed by Samsung Gallery, with Apple Photos trailing behind. The video then delves into the removal of photo bombers. Both Samsung Gallery and Google Photos can perform this task, but Google Photos is highlighted as easier and more efficient due to its automatic suggestions. It also handles challenging removals better, as demonstrated with example images. Apple Photos lacks this feature and is not included in the comparison for this category.
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In this part of the video, the speaker compares the Google Photos and Samsung Gallery apps regarding their ability to handle complex photo edits. Google Photos is noted for better quality when cropping subjects and using background elements effectively, whereas Samsung Gallery’s method can look unappealing. Samsung Gallery has a unique feature to erase shadows and reflections, which Google Photos lacks. However, the shadow removal in Samsung Gallery may still leave traces and require manual intervention. Google Photos has a notable advantage in camouflaging colorful areas of an image. For object removal, the speaker scores Google Photos slightly higher than Samsung Gallery. In cropping objects, Samsung Gallery outperforms Apple Photos by handling edges better. Lastly, both apps offer manual editing controls such as brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on comparing photo editing tools across Google Photos, Samsung Gallery, and Apple Photos. Google Photos emerges as the leader with 16 different tools, followed by Apple Photos with 15, and Samsung Gallery with 11. When editing portraits, all three platforms allow adjustment of blur intensity, but Google Photos offers additional features such as adjusting the depth and selecting focal points within the image.
Apple Photos provides five portrait effects (Studio Light, Contour Light, Stage Light, Stage Light Mono, High Key Light Mono), while Samsung Gallery offers a broader range with effects like Studio, High Key Mono, Lowkey Mono, Backdrop, Color Point, Big Circle, Spin, and Zoom. Both Google Photos and Samsung Gallery permit adding a light source to images, enhancing lighting options which Apple Photos lacks. Overall, this segment indicates that Google Photos has a slight edge in flexibility and features, particularly in portrait adjustments and lighting enhancements.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on comparing the photo editing capabilities of Samsung Gallery, Google Photos, and Apple Photos. For portrait edits, Samsung Gallery can only be used with specific light effects for portrait photos, while Google Photos allows users to add and adjust portrait effects on any image. In terms of portrait editing, Samsung Gallery is the top choice, followed by Google Photos, with Apple Photos in third.
The segment further explores additional features exclusive to the respective apps. Google Photos has a “Sky” feature, enabling users to adjust the sky appearance without using filters, earning it a point over the others. Google Photos and Samsung Gallery offer a color focus feature—called “Spot Color” in Samsung—that highlights the subject while desaturating the background. Google Photos is simpler and more effective in this regard.
Moreover, Google Photos includes a unique “Cinematic photos” feature that creates a 3D effect, which is not available in the other apps, giving it another point. Lastly, both Google Photos and Samsung Gallery support collage creation, unlike Apple Photos. For this segment of the comparison, the iPhone is excluded due to the lack of a built-in collage creation feature.
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In this segment of the video, the presenter compares the collage and GIF creation features of Google Photos and Samsung Gallery. Both apps allow reordering, pinch-to-zoom, and individual image editing within collages. Samsung Gallery offers more flexibility in deleting or adding images, choosing different aspect ratios, adjusting frame curvature, and changing background colors. However, Google Photos stands out with its unique array of creative styles. In GIF creation, Samsung Gallery offers extensive editing options such as adding/deleting images, changing order, adjusting speed, and adding stickers or text, whereas Google Photos does not provide editing capabilities. Samsung Gallery is awarded more points for its additional features, such as creative styles and advanced color adjustments, which are not available in Google Photos.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker reviews a feature called Face Effects, which allows users to adjust various aspects of their face in photos. These adjustments include skin smoothness, tone, jawline, and eye size. The feature also includes a spot fixer and a background blur option, although the latter only affects the top half of the shot. Additionally, there is a red-eye fix tool. The segment concludes with a summary of a photo editing comparison among Google Photos, Samsung Gallery, and Apple Photos. Samsung Gallery emerged as the overall winner, followed by Google Photos, with Apple Photos in third place. The video ends with the speaker inviting viewers to share their thoughts in the comments.