A recent Google+ update brings features that seem to draw influence from the HTC One and the HTC Zoe toolbox. With new photo features to enhance smartphone photos and a few other tools like an awesome video maker complete with transitions to the beat and filters, Google+ has given HTC One users something to think about before editing the latest photos in your gallery.
With many photos taken by Google+ users each day, Google aims to provide the features of a paid desktop application inside the web interface experience and very nicely we might add. But the new features don’t stop there, Google’s pitch, “Photos take a lot of work” and now there’s an added app on your phone with tools to enhance your photos. Coincidentally enough, these tools and the interface are similar to the photo editor on HTC phones. The new Google+ app has filters, frames, crops photos, and offers some other adjustments just like HTC. Google has put a lot of money into photo editing tools like Snapseed, but the key has been keeping said tools simple and easy to use. That is probably the biggest reason the smartphone tool is so similar to the HTC Photo Editor, because they options are easy to understand and use. Snapseed for mobile is a great app, but it is not as easy as the new Google+ Photos or the HTC Photo Editor.
Photos are a moment of your personal story and Google+ wants to help you share your story. There are some cool new features that you won’t get from an HTC app like the Auto Awesomeness that Google is creating from your uploaded photos without your interaction. With the Auto Awesome feature turned on many of your photos will automatically get enhancements or some other modifications like a mini-collage, sequence shot, gif, and/or object removal. When taking Zoe’s on your HTC One you can achieve enhancements, sequence shots, and object removal, but these actions still require some interaction. 
Google+ will do this from your uploaded photos if it detects the possibility to make enhancements. Additionally, all photos uploaded from a mobile device will now be added to plus at full resolution so your story is forever backed up on the popular social network without compromising the quality.
Please don’t take the subject of this article the wrong way. Google+ is doing amazing things for the users and we are happy to be a part of the network. We’re also happy to report that HTC caught the eye of the giant and possibly influenced the introduction of these features within the social network.
If anyone from HTC is reading, take a look at the multiple filters per category with Google+ Photos and the method for switching between them.
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