Hi everyone. So I thought you might like to have a look at how HTC's Gallery app
works on the HTC One, Now it has a couple of sort of key features.
It will obviously bundle together all of your
images you take each day and videos into a single kind of small
album and then what it will do is it will use its various effects that it has from the
camera from the duo camera
to kind of well add a little bit of extra zing to things.
So for instance with its automated video that we have here
just go into that. What it will do is it's taking all of the various images I've taken
this day
and it's then rounding them up into a nice little video
which it will then add duo effects to if a
duo picture was taken. Sp this can include blurring out the background,
creating this really cool kind of 3d effect from the depth of field on the
camera and just generally
giving you a nice snapshot
auto awesome really, trademark Google, of
all of your activities that day that you've captured. But likewise if you want to, you
can go in and have a look at individual images quite easily, you scroll down slightly
and we can come into here and let's just find a picture
of let's have this one. So here's our image,
and if I want to I can come in and I can edit that image and this is where we can then
add in our various effects. So we've got you focus option here
which allows me to pick a point of focus and have
the focus then altered to move to that position. Oops!
Just want to come out of that because I need to be able to
add a different effect. I may have just made a mistake there.
Yes, I have. But likewise we can go into another image
and if we want to we can throw on our duo effect.
So, to do this we have various options, you focus is one of them, there's a foreground of
seasons, dimension plus.
And dimension plus is probably one of the cooller features because watch this.
Because of the way the dimension camera works this is maybe not the best image to kind of
do this with. You can have this kind of 3d effect because the
second camera is offset slightly. It's able to kind of see
past the object you're taking a picture of and so you can have
some additional depth information. Let me just see if I can find a better image than
that one.
As you can see it was a
very dark day when I took these photos. It doesn't really do the
best by the camera sadly.
Let's just try this one. Not this one, it's
the other one. This one. Unfortunately once you've edited an image with the
duo options and saved it you then lose the ability to
kind of add any more features to it but if you watch the fish
you can see how well this kind of works in practice. When you have the right kind of
image for the duo camera,
It works exceptionally well, it's incredibly cool but as you can see on
the top of the fork,
you can get some kind of warping and bending occurring on straighter objects.
It's one of those things where it doesn't work in all cases and all scenarios.
But it's kind of cool effect. How much use it's actually going to be
long-term that all depends on whether HTC give us an easy way to share that effect
with a wide range of people. At the moment this content is very much
locked to the device unfortunately. So
within the gallery there's so many different kind of options from an
editing point of view. Let's go into one of these
options and images and take a look at the options that we get. So if we come
into edit we've got the effects that I've already gone through a moment ago
and those also include like stickers and copying and pasting and a touch-up for
people's faces as well. And they're really quite useful features although
I'm not too sure how useful the skin smoothing
option is going to be. It's a little bit like kind of
photoshopping people in Vanity Fair. It's a bit of a strange one.
We also have access to a range of different filters. These filters can also
be
added at shooting time as well I believe. So we can go in here and we can
adjust our saturation and so on. We also have the ability to add frames.
These frames can be a variety of funny-looking things
or effects and we also have a tool set here
as well and this allows us to straighten up the image if we want to,
crop the image, rotate the image or draw directly onto the image
as well. This is all pretty standard stuff but it's not a bad
package as it were for a gallery app. Normally we would have to
you know, go and grab some other apps like Snapseed and so on so it's quite nice
that HTC obviously put a lot of
effort in here. Sharing your content is equally easy but just bear in mind you
won't be getting hold of
any of those really cool 3D effects as it were when you try and share
simply because they're kind of locked into the video footage
itself. I'll be looking for an alternative way if we can before the Zoe app launches
that we can
try and share that information. Perhaps we can try and just render them on screen
and export them but we will see. Thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed this video. Do please
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