6 Samsung Gallery features you didn’t know were on your Galaxy smartphone

Google Photos is now pre-installed on many manufacturers’ mobile phones and offers useful backup and other features. However, the Samsung Gallery app makes a strong case for being the best gallery app from the Android brand today.

If you have a Samsung phone, the built-in gallery offers a variety of features such as erasing objects, creating GIFs and collages, and optical character recognition. In fact, it offers so many features that you might even find some that you didn’t know about. Here are some features of Samsung Gallery that you may not know about.

Samsung isn’t the first to offer anti-reflection functionality, with HUAWEI taking the honor in 2020. Nevertheless, this feature has been available on Samsung’s flagship phones since the 2022 Galaxy S22 series. And it does exactly what you think.

Gallery will prompt you to remove reflections from your photo, or you can manually remove them by: Edit > Three-dot menu > Object Eraser > Erase Reflections. It’s not perfect, however, as the sun appears to be hidden in the “after” photo above. Samsung instead seems to apply aggressive contrast adjustments to reduce visibility, and reflections aren’t actually eliminated either. However, this is still useful when taking photos through windows (office windows, airplane windows, display cabinets, etc.).

I love the spot color (or color pop) feature that some smartphones have. This allows you to take a black and white photo and add individual colors back to the image. The biggest drawback of this feature on Motorola phones and others is that you have to shoot in a dedicated mode first. That means you can’t use this with older images. Fortunately, Samsung offers a better approach with this little-known gallery feature.

Spot colors in Samsung Gallery work with any photo. just tap Edit > Three-dot menu > Spot colorThe photo will then become a monochrome photo. From here you can choose to add or remove colors. In any case, this feature allows you to take stylish shots.

More than just color-related features, one of Samsung Gallery’s recent features is colorization. It uses AI smarts to add color to your black and white photos. This is useful if you have a lot of old black and white photos taken or scanned with your phone, such as old family photos.

The feature is coming to Galaxy flagships as part of the Galaxy AI feature suite and can be accessed by swiping up on a black and white photo and tapping the “Colorize” button. When I tried out the colorization feature earlier this year, I found it to be very hit-or-miss, but it does a solid job of colorizing photos of people.

Many Android smartphones offer a dedicated long exposure mode, or you can use manual mode to take long exposure shots. But one of Samsung Gallery’s more useful but lesser-known features is its ability to capture long exposure shots after the fact.

This feature was first introduced on iPhone and only works with photos that have Motion Photos enabled. Simply swipe up from the bottom or tap the “i” button to display the information panel. Now tap the “Long Exposure” button to create a long exposure photo. Using a tripod and manual mode may give you higher quality results, but it’s still a nice time-saving addition. (Yes, I’m not a big fan of this fan shot, but this is the sample available now.)

Did you know there is a hidden Labs menu in Samsung Gallery? Tap to enable this menu. Settings > Overview Tap the version number repeatedly until the app says Samsung Gallery Labs is enabled. So, What does this settings menu show?

Samsung Gallery Labs offers some experimental toggles and features. These include the option to save certain JPEGs as PDF, automatically play the next video, and a filmstrip UI for fast scrolling through photos. None of these features are big additions to the app, but they’re nice anyway.

Have you ever taken a photo of your monitor or TV and seen a visually unpleasant pattern of lines in the image? That’s how the moiré effect works. It’s an annoying and distracting visual artifact similar to a screen door, but one of the most underrated Samsung Gallery features is moiré removal.

When Gallery detects a moire effect in an affected photo, remove it by swiping up on the relevant image (or tapping the “i” button) and pressing the “Remove Moire” button that automatically appears. can. Don’t have this option on your Galaxy smartphone? Next, you can download the Galaxy Enhance-X app, which debuts this tool. However, as you can see in the two galleries above, the differences can be impressive or just so-so.