Take high quality photos on your Pixel phone or tablet

While using your camera, your phone will be straight when the two lines meet, and the angle is zero.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. Hold your phone steadily. A yellow line and a white line appear in the middle of the screen.
3. To make the lines meet, rotate your phone left to right and tilt it forward and backward.
4. If you point your phone up or down at your subject, the "Up/Down" indicator appears.
5. To align the "Up/Down" indicator and take a straight photo, rotate your phone left to right and tilt it forward and back.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. At the bottom left, tap Settings.
3. Tap More settings.
4. Turn off Framing hints.

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL.

You can use the slider at the bottom of your photos to adjust the photo’s:

• Focus
• Shutter speed
• ISO

Important: This feature only works on Pro phones such as Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL.

You can capture high-resolution, 50 MP photos and control other aspects of your photos like color and exposure.

To turn on high resolution:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. On the bottom left, tap Settings and then Pro tab.
3. Set Resolution to 50 MP.

Tip: For Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, you can also take 50 MP photos while your camera is in Portrait mode. Once you’ve turned on 50MP it will apply to both default photo and portrait modes.

To take portrait photos:

To add a blurred background on your photo:

1. Open the Google Photos app Photos.
2. Tap Photos.
3. Tap Edit photo and then Tools and then Blur .
4. Move the Blur slider.

Tip: For Pixel Tablet, you can only use Portrait mode on the front camera.

You can use Face Retouching to adjust your skin texture, under-eye tone, and eye brightness.

To turn on Face Retouching:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. In the bottom menu, tap Portrait and then Settings and then Face Retouching.
3. Select an option:
   • Off
   • Subtle
   • Smooth

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel 9 and later, including Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

You can now be part of any group photo. Take a group photo, swap with someone to capture another photo, and join the group. The camera stitches together the two versions with Add Me.

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1. Open your Camera app.
2. On the photo mode carousel, tap Add Me.
3. Move your camera around to scan the area around the subjects.
   • Tip: Make sure you leave room for yourself in the frame.
4. Take your first photo.
5. Hand your Pixel to another person in the group and join the scene.
6. The second photographer needs to align the phone with the frame and make sure you’re in the frame of the first photo.
   • Tip: If the frame is red, the phone isn’t correctly aligned.
7. When the frame turns white, the second photographer can tap Capture again.
8. The camera stitches your two photos together for a photo with everyone in the frame.

Tip: If your Pixel 9 Pro Fold is unfolded and you switch to Add Me mode, the dual screen preview will turn on automatically. As you take a photo, you can use both screens to get a preview of yourself and help position yourself within the frame.

Taking pictures underwater can be hard because of the way light works. Below the surface, red, yellow, and orange light are reflected by the water, so that only blue and green light can be seen in deep water.

To correct these issues, Pixel camera uses a special AWB algorithm designed and optimized to color-correct for an underwater environment. You can turn on this feature in Advanced settings.

Important:

• This feature is available on Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL.
• You must use a waterproof case to take underwater photos.

To capture the true color of underwater scenes:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. At the bottom left, tap Settingsand then More settings and then Advanced.
3. Turn on Underwater photography and video.

This feature is only available on:

• Pixel 6 Pro
• Pixel 7 Pro
• Pixel 8 Pro
• Pixel Fold
• Pixel 9 and later

When you zoom in or out your camera, your phone automatically selects which lens to use. However, if you want to select a specific lens, you can enable Manual Lens Selection.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. At the bottom left, tap Settings .
3. Go to the Pro tab.
4. Next to "Lens Selection," tap Manual .
5. When this feature is active, the standard zoom control is replaced withabutton for each lens on your phone:
   • Ultrawide (UW)
   • Wide (W)
   • Tele (T)
6. To zoom, touch and hold the button for the lens you want to use.
   • To zoom out, on the screen, you can also pinch your two fingers together. To zoom in, you can spread them apart.

You can use Ultrawide zoom to capture more people and surroundings.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. On your screen, pinch your screen to zoom out.

1. To focus on the subject of your photo, point your camera at the subject
2. Tap on the subject. A white circle appears and moves on the screen with the subject.
3. To lock the focus and exposure on a subject that moves, tap Lock .

Tip: If you have accessibility features turned on, to focus on and expose the subject of your photo, double-tap your screen.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. On the photo mode carousel, tap Panorama.
   • To change the panning direction, you can:
     • At the top of the screen, tap the preview bar.
     • In the middle of the viewfinder, tap the arrow indicator.
     • At the bottom left, tap Settings and then Direction.
3. To start, tap the shutter button and then pause on each dot briefly as you pan.
   • When "Night Sight" is active in panorama, you need to pause on each dot for several seconds.
4. Make sure the level indicator is leveled when you pause on the dot.
5. Follow the arrow.
6. To stop the capture, tap the shutter button.

Tips:

• To cancel a photo, tap Close Close.
• To take a vertical panorama photo, rotate your device.

Troubleshoot panorama issues

Issue	How to resolve
Can’t capture image from right to left	To change the panning direction, you can: At the top of the screen, tap the preview bar. In the middle of the viewfinder, tap the arrow indicator. At the bottom left, tap Settings and then Direction.
Can’t capture image in landscape orientation	When you hold your device in Landscape mode, you can capture vertical panoramas. To take a horizontal panorama, rotate your device to a vertical orientation.
There are errors in the panorama	Try to capture the panorama slowly. Hold still when you capture the image.

Tips:

• When you capture a panorama photo, take your time. When you get to a dot, try to hold as still as possible. Before you move on to the next dot, make sure the capture in the previous dot is complete .
• The wide (1x) camera is the best performer in low light. If you capture a 5x panorama in low light and the image quality isn’t satisfactory, try to capture the same scene at 1x.

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel 3 to Pixel 7a.

With your Pixel camera, you can create different types of 360-degree photo spheres, such as panorama photo spheres and fisheye photos. To create a 360-degree photo sphere:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. On the photo mode carousel, tap Photo Sphere and then Shutter.
3. Hold the target circle over a white dot. The dot will turn blue, then disappear.
4. Move the camera to the next white dot as you hold the lens steady.
5. Repeat until there are no more white dots, or tap Done Done.

To change your Photo Spheretype:

• At the bottom left, tap Settings .
  • To take a 360-degree photo, tap Panorama photo sphere .
  • To take a horizontal photo, tap Horizontal .
  • To take a vertical photo, tap Vertical.
  • To take a photo with a wide arc, tap Wide-angle .
  • To take a fisheye photo, tap Fisheye .

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 and later.

Use Macro Focus to capture small details like flower petals or dew drops in your photos and videos.

To use Macro Focus:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. Move your device close to your subject.
3. Tap the screen to place the focus.
4. When the Macro flower appears, take your photo or video.

Tips:

• Do not shade your subject or block your light source.
• To turn Macro Focus on or off, tap .
• To focus on a specific part of your subject, tap the screen where you want to focus.
• This feature also works with Auto Night Sight.

Capture photos of subjects from a distance. With the next generation of zoom lenses, you can zoom up to 30x on some Pixel devices.

Tip: Zoom stabilization turns on automatically on Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Fold phones zoomed to 15x.

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. Zoom into your subject.
   • For quick adjustments: Tap the 2x or 5x zoom button above the shutter.
   • For more precision: Pinch the screen or swipe across the zoom buttons to show the zoom slider.
3. Tap your subject to focus.
4. Take your photo.

Tip: Bright light is best for photos captured with zoom and stabilization.

Zoom camera up to 100x

Important: This feature is available on Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL.

After you install the Pro Res Zoom model, your Pixel 10 Pro or Pixel 10 Pro XL can zoom up to 100x. In some cases, this may be pre-installed when you open your device. When you zoom above 30x, you get 2 images each time you press the shutter button:

• 1 image enhanced with generative AI
• 1 image enhanced without generative AI

To enable your camera to zoom up to 100x:

1. Open your Camera app Google Camera.
2. At the bottom left, tap Settings and then More and then Model download.
3. Under "Not installed," tap Pro Res Zoom.
   • To automatically get updates, turn on Automatically download updates on Wi-Fi.
4. Once installed, you can zoom the camera up to 100x.
   • To reduce camera shake, tap Stabilize . This only works at or above 15x zoom.

Tip: This feature works with Pro Controls.