Google has introduced a new feature called "Stories" that works like a virtual, automatic scrapbook to collect and organize your favorite photos.
Stories puts your images together into a more complete narrative by selecting the best shots and finding their location to make different collections of pictures, TechCrunch reported. The new Google+ feature, which is available in web and Android versions and should roll out for iOS soon, is a solution for those hundreds of perfect shots you take and never look at again.
"No more sifting through photos for your best shots, racking your brain for the sights you saw, or letting your videos collect virtual dust. We'll just gift you a story after you get home," Google described Stories in a recent blog post. "This way you can relive your favorite moments, share them with others, and remember why you traveled in the first place."
Essentially a virtual collage, Stories automatically organizes your photos with transitions, animations and captions for a multimedia collection that can be viewed as full-screen. It can distinguish between different groups of pictures, organizing them by event.
The feature also removes doubles, blurry images and other superfluous pictures, while using geo-tags and landmarks to detect the photo location.
Wired pointed out that Stories addresses the biggest problem with modern photography--our habit of taking dozens of photos without ever making them a viewable, enjoyable experience.
"There are products that think of photos as files, and there are products that think of photos as photos," Ben Eidelson, a product manager for Google+ Photos, told Wired. "But what we're trying to do is think of photos as moments. This is a moment in your life that you want to do something with."
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