Menorgitek: A Final Friday Feature

Is anyone else finding Blogger eating part of their page... my sidebar is not showing, even though it is there in the layout... disappeared yesterday... (though, stupidly, it displays when in preview mode)... sigh......... and there it was back again, mid-arvo same day....double sigh...

A tech talk for FFF? Yes, and you can blame Sandra, the MadSnapper, for this one! I have always edited my photographs on my laptop. Since getting the Gopika (Pixel7) earlier this year, I have retained that habit but had, only in recent weeks, taken to making minor edits (such as exposure or cropping) directly in the phone before then downloading via Google Photos. Clearly, the phone model one has makes a difference as to whether you use this or, as in Sandra's case, "gallery" - you will all have your equivalent of this. You are therefore encouraged to go digging for it.

What? The collage tool! This got me a little excited because once I had to give up using Voovoo the Vaio, I also lost quite a bit of photo processing power, and to create collages, I had to fire up PixlR. Which is fine, I really like that app, I pay the annual fee and use it a lot. I shall continue to do so. However, for speed and fun, creating a collage directly from Photos is a neat little trick that I can now do due to Sandra having pushed that button! So, I have taken some screenshots showing how it goes in the Pixel7 with Android 14... it will not be much different everywhere, just terminology may vary.

In Photos, click only the batch selector (1), 

then deselect the items NOT wanted by their individual tick boxes (2)

Then go down to the bottom of the screen and select the "add to" link (3)

Note that, for my phone anyway, there is a maximum of three images per collage permitted.

I note that there are possibilities of other image manipulation here ... movie, animation, cinematic...

It will have to wait until I get a lot more images gathered before I explore what they are about.

For our purposes here today, select the collage option.

As stated in the help pages given above, being a Pixel owner means I get to play with some quite fancy formats, as well as a standard collage layout.

You can see examples at the bottom of the screenshot.

And now, here is a finished one!