Starting subsequent week, modifying PDFs on a Chromebook goes to be a breeze. Users will be capable to spotlight textual content, fill out varieties, signal paperwork, and add textual content annotations immediately throughout the Gallery app.

Gallery is the default photograph modifying app on Chromebooks. Similar to Photos on Windows, it’s the place a batch of photographs first seems if you open it. Most Chromebooks don’t include a PDF editor by default, and whereas free third-party choices exist, their options are usually restricted, and modifying immediately in Gallery looks like it might contain considerably much less problem.

This could possibly be a giant assist for college kids, a demographic amongst which Chromebooks are broadly used. Not solely may they extra simply mark up texts and assignments but in addition they’ll annotate handwritten notes from class (which will be exported as a PDF from the Cursive app in ChromeOS).

Google is bringing quite a few different options to Chromebooks this fall, together with a “new movie editor and video editing features” in Google Photos, which can come to Chromebooks first. Users will be capable to, “with just a few taps,” compile a video out of the clips and photographs which can be saved on their account. It seems to be such as you simply want to pick a theme (“Love Story,” “Pet Movie,” and many others.) and topics, and Google will do the remainder.

Those who need extra management will even be capable to use a extra superior “movie editor” to rearrange clips, apply filters, and alter settings like brightness, distinction, and white level.

Other options coming to Google Photos in August embody gentle and darkish themes in addition to wallpaper integration.