Microsoft OneDrive adds new photo editing features to take on Google Photos

The new features bring OneDrive a step closer to feature parity with Google Photos.

Microsoft OneDrive will now let users edit photos using basic editing tools on its Web and Android apps. Users will now be able to crop, rotate, and flip images, make light and colour adjustments, cast media using Chromecast, and organise photos in an improved manner, along with searching for images using filters. The new update brings the photo storing experience on Microsoft OneDrive closer to that on Google Photos. Notably, as of now, users can only edit JPEG and PNG image formats. OneDrive’s photo editing features include mirroring, rotating, manual cropping, and cropping to a pre-set aspect ratio, as well as brightness, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, and basic colour correction.