Microsoft will allow you to edit your pictures as a part of a brand new OneDrive replace

Microsoft is updating OneDrive on the web and Android with primary picture modifying options, the corporate introduced Tuesday (via XDA Developers). The new options convey the picture storing expertise in OneDrive nearer to what Google presents in Google Photos.

Among the modifying options OneDrive now helps, you’ll be able to crop, rotate, and make gentle and colour changes to pictures. Photo modifying solely works on JPEG or PNG information and is presently solely supplied on private OneDrive accounts. Microsoft says it plans to broaden the picture modifying characteristic to enterprise and faculty accounts this summer season and its iOS OneDrive app later this 12 months.

Microsoft can be tossing in just a few different options for the Android model of the OneDrive app. You can now forged pictures to a Chromecast-enabled gadget and let others watch you flip via them dwell. OneDrive can be getting a brand new method to manage pictures: Microsoft says a while within the subsequent two months it’ll add a setting to have OneDrive routinely create folders based mostly on the add supply in your footage, whether or not it’s a photograph you saved from WhatsApp or a screenshot you took your self.

All of those adjustments are minor, however they’re positively good to have. As Google Photos turns into much less engaging to make use of, any service competing extra straight towards it’s a good factor. Hopefully the adjustments lengthen to pricing someday quickly.