Use camera features on your Chromebook

You can employ the camera on your Chromebook to take photos or videos, edit and print photos, and browse documents.

Accept a photo or video or scan 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 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 camera .
    • Tip: You can only switch cameras if you lot plug in an external camera or your Chromebook has ii congenital-in cameras.
  • Accept photos with a timer: Select Timer .
  • Have photos with the volume buttons: When your Chromebook is in tablet style, y'all tin can press the up or down volume button to have a photo. Learn more than about tablet mode.
  • Take a photo while you tape a video: While you record a video, select Have video snapshot.
  • Pause a recording: You can suspension a recording, and proceed recording on the same video later.
    • Important: When you interruption 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 take this pick, your camera doesn't support pan, tilt, and zoom.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Employ the camera with Google Assistant

You tin can ask your Google Assistant to assist you take photos, videos, and scan documents. Kickoff, set up Google Assistant on your Chromebook. So, say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google," and use the commands below.

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

Find or save your photos or videos

Edit, delete, or print your photos

  1.  Select the photo you want to edit.
    • Tip: In the Camera app ,  on the bottom right, you tin can select your most recent photo or video.
  2. Choose an selection:

Tip: To do more than advanced photograph editing, you lot can apply an app like Google Photos, Pixlr Editor, or Sumo Paint.

Scan a document

Important: For all-time results:

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

Tip: You tin can also scan documents with your printer.

Browse a QR Code

  1. Open Photographic camera .
  2. At the bottom, select Scan and then QR code.
  3. Center your QR Code in the QR Lawmaking 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 Code" is a registered trademark of Denso Wave Incorporated in Japan and other countries.

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