Portrait touch-up in Google Meet lets you enhance your appearance

 

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Google Meet is adding a new feature that lets you subtly enhance your appearance before joining or during the meeting. The portrait touch-up feature is currently available on mobile devices and will expand to Google Meet on the web by the end of 2023.

"This update has been highly requested by our users and we hope that by providing the ability to lightly enhance their appearance, they will feel more comfortable and confident with how they appear during video calls," Google wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

The new feature offers two touch-up modes:

• Subtle: very light complexion smoothing, under eye lightening and eye whitening.
• Smoothing: slightly more complexion smoothing, under-eye lightening and eye whitening.

To turn portrait touch-up on in Google Meet, go to Settings and select either of the two modes.

Portrait touch-up in Google Meet is gradually rolling out to Rapid Release domains and may take up to 15 days to be fully visible. The feature will start rolling out to Scheduled Release domains starting on October 28, 2023.

The feature is available to Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Google One and Google Workspace Individual customers. It will not be available to users with personal Google Accounts.