Employ camera features on your Chromebook

You tin can employ the photographic camera on your Chromebook to take photos or videos, edit and impress photos, and scan documents.

Accept a photo or video or browse a document with your Chromebook

Change how photos or videos are captured

  • Change your settings: Select Settings . Change the size of the grid, the length of the timer, or the photographic camera resolution.
  • Flip your photo from left to right: Select Mirroring.
  • Use gridlines to straighten photos: Select Grid.
  • Switch between cameras: At the left, select Switch photographic camera .
    • Tip: You tin can merely switch cameras if you plug in an external camera or your Chromebook has 2 built-in cameras.
  • Take photos with a timer: Select Timer .
  • Take photos with the volume buttons: When your Chromebook is in tablet mode, you can printing the upwardly or downwardly book button to take a photo. Larn more than nigh tablet manner.
  • Take a photograph while yous record a video: While yous record a video, select Take video snapshot.
  • Pause a recording: You tin intermission a recording, and proceed recording on the same video subsequently.
    • Important: When you intermission a video recording, your Chromebook will save the video unless yous delete it.
  • Pan, tilt, and zoom your photographic camera: Select Pan, tilt, and zoom .
    • Tip: If you don't have this choice, your camera doesn't support pan, tilt, and zoom.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Use the camera with Google Assistant

Y'all can ask your Google Assistant to assist you take photos, videos, and scan documents. First, gear up upward Google Banana on your Chromebook. Then, say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google," and use the commands below.

Open the camera: "Launch my camera."
Take a moving picture: "Take my picture show."
Take a portrait: "Have a portrait photo."
Tape video: "Accept a video."

Find or salve your photos or videos

Edit, delete, or print your photos

  1.  Select the photograph you desire to edit.
    • Tip: In the Camera app ,  on the bottom right, you can select your most recent photograph or video.
  2. Choose an option:

Tip: To do more advanced photo editing, you can utilise an app like Google Photos, Pixlr Editor, or Sumo Paint.

Scan a document

Important: For best results:

  • If bachelor, use your external or dorsum camera to scan.
  • Employ a groundwork that's a different colour than your document.
  • Align all edges of the document within the frame.
  • Browse in a well lit space.
  1. Open Camera .
  2. At the lesser, select Scan and then Document.
  3. Identify the document to be scanned inside the finder.
  4. Once detected, select Browse .
  5. To relieve your certificate, select Save as photo or Salvage as PDF.
    • Select Retake to recapture.

Tip: You can as well scan documents with your printer.

Scan a QR Code

  1. Open Photographic camera .
  2. At the bottom, select Scan and then QR code.
  3. Center your QR Lawmaking in the QR Code finder window on your screen.
  4. At the height of the QR Code finder, select the link to open a new Chrome tab.
    • To copy the link to your clipboard, select the copy button.

"QR Lawmaking" is a registered trademark of Denso Wave Incorporated in Japan and other countries.

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