Google+ now allows users to "auto enhance" not only their photos, but also uploaded videos.
The Google+ move follows a few days after Facebook made an announcement about its own auto-enhancing feature for uploaded images on its server.
However, the niche social networking service already introduced its auto enhance feature for uploaded photos nearly two years ago, and this time, it is announcing that it can do the same for videos.
Google+ will not use auto enhance by default, but rather inform the user whether it can be used. A message will pop up, asking the user if it wants to use the feature. A 240p low-resolution side by side comparison of the uploaded video and the enhanced one will be shown as a sample.
Users can choose to apply the changes or not at all. Other videos uploaded to Google+ Photos may also be enhanced.
Tim St. Clair, an engineer from Google, wrote on a company blog that the auto-enhance feature can improve stability, color and lighting. In the near future, a new option will also be able to improve speech audio in the videos.
The new feature for videos can be used on Windows, Mac and ChromeOS.
Google+ is not the first one to offer enhancement for videos. YouTube offers an "auto-fix" feature, but it does not inform the users automatically. In addition, YouTube also has other manual features such as tools for color temp, saturation and contrast.
Despite its unpopularity, Google+ boasts 300 million monthly active users as of October 2013.