Get started with photos on your Pixel telephone

You lot can take a photo on the camera on your telephone in different means. Employ this article to get started taking photos and to discover resource most advanced photo options.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Have avant-garde photos

Cull how to take a photograph

With your hand

  1. Open your Google Camera appGoogle Camera. Learn how.
  2. Point your camera and wait for information technology to focus and take in light.
  3. Tap Capture.

Zoom

Pinch open or airtight on your screen, double-tap the screen, or apply the slider at the bottom.
Tip: When you accept a picture from far away, to capture the most details, zoom into your subject first.

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

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

Swap between your back and front cameras

Tap Switch  or twist your telephone twice. Learn nigh gestures on your telephone.

Take a straight photograph

While using your camera, your phone will be straight when the 2 lines see, and the angle is 0.

  1. Open your camera and concord your phone steady. A yellow line and a white line announced in the center of the screen.
  2. To make the lines meet, rotate your phone left to right and tilt it forward and astern.
  3. If yous betoken your phone up or downward at your subject field, the Up/Down indicator appears. To align the Up/Down indicator and accept a straight photo, rotate your telephone left to correct and tilt information technology forwards and back.

Tip: You can turn off horizon leveling and the Upwardly/Down indicator. From your Camera app, tap the Down pointer And so, tap Settings, and plow off Framing hints.

Use 4x Zoom

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel vi Pro.

  1. Open up your Camera app Google Camera. Learn how.
  2. In default camera, video, Motion or Dark Sight modes, tap 4x. Or, on your screen, pinch open and close.

Use Ultrawide Zoom (Pixel 4a (5G) & later)

Ultrawide can capture more of the people and scenes around you.

  1. Open your Photographic camera app Google Camera. Learn how.
  2. In default photographic camera, video, or Night Sight modes, tap .6x. Or, on your screen, pinch open and close.

With your voice

  1. Say "OK Google, take a moving-picture show," or "OK Google, take a selfie."
    Optional: Before yous take the photo, you tin tell the camera to wait between 3—xxx seconds. For example, "OK Google, take a picture in 12 seconds."
  2. Your Camera app will open and take a photo.

With Habiliment Bone

  1. Gear up upward your watch with your phone. Larn how to prepare up your watch.
  2. Open up your Google Photographic camera appGoogle Camera. Learn how.
  3. On your watch, swipe upward from the bottom of your screen until you see the Remote card.
  4. To take a photo, tap the shutter button on your watch.
    • Your picket volition vibrate and flash.
    • You'll go a thumbnail of the photo on your sentry.

Tip: Yous tin get more details or take activeness on your photos. Find out how to apply Google Lens.

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