If you’re using a Chromebook to edit your photos, then you can do the basics. You have the ability to crop, resize, rotate, and annotate your image. You can also adjust the exposure, contrast, and saturation to your liking.

There are some upcoming flags for ChromeOS that will let you do more to edit your images. Essentially, it’s going to build Google Photos right into the gallery app. With this addition, you’ll be able to do much more to your image. Right now, the update isn’t available to the common user. It’s still a while out, as this will first drop as a pair of flags. Those running on the right version of ChromeOS will be able to activate these flags to experiment with the feature. So, there’s no telling when Google will push the update to the public.

What to look forward to with this update

When Google Photos makes its way to the ChromeOS Gallery app, you’ll have a bunch more tools at your disposal to edit your photos. Along with the aforementioned tools, you’ll be able to adjust the HDR, white point, black point, highlights, shadows, and many more. One notable difference between the ChromeOS Gallery app and Google Photos is the addition of several filters you can add to pictures. There’s a selection of “Snapchat-esque” filters that you can apply to the photos you’re editing. If Google Photos is being ported over 100%, then ChromeOS Gallery will also get the ever-useful Magic Eraser. This is the tool that made its debut on the Pixel 6 phones. It allows people to remove background objects from the picture using Google’s AI.

This isn’t only for photos

Google Photos also has a handy video editor. Now, it’s not exactly Sony Vegas, but you can crop and trim your videos. Along with those, you can change and apply the same settings to videos that you can with photos. If you’re into enabling flags in ChromeOS, then you should keep your eye out for these new flags. Just know that they might be unstable when you enable them.