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The most popular use for Google Drive is photo storage. I do not have access to an Ubuntu phone, so I use an iPhone. The iPhone is notorious for its 16GB of storage. I installed the Google Drive App onto my phone and enabled Google Photos to sync towards my photo albums. This allows my photos to be backed up online via Google Drive.
I have used my Drive for photo storage for close to 6 months, and I have yet to find a serious flaw.
I cannot edit the photos using GIMP since it is not on Chrome OS as of September 2016. So I poked around a bit in the Chrome Web Store and found a replacement app called Pixlr Editor. It does not invade your privacy, but it needs access to your Chromebook’s SSD or Drive. The app has a side advertising panel, however my Ghostery Extension blocks the content. You are not required to have a login or to subscribe to the Pixlr Editor website. However a login enables using Pixlr Editor’s cloud storage for your projects.
You can open a picture straight from the Pixlr Editor directly or indirectly through Google Photos via a Pixlr Editor shortcut on the Drive. The chosen picture would then appear in the Pixlr Editor app. I choose a simple bumblebee picture from my Drive.
The app can be divided into two major areas: tools and picture pane. There are 3 sub-areas after the picture pane: navigator, layers, and history. The right of the screen is the advertising app. These 5 panes create the online photo editor.
The tools pane has the typical array seen in GIMP such as cropping, paint brushes, text boxes, etc. The navigator is useful for focusing on certain areas of the picture. The layers show the various effects implemented by tools, and the history shows the order of layers performed.
When you are finished, you can save your work in a png, jpeg, bmp, tiff, or pxd format. And the finished picture can be saved directly to your Chromebook.
I successfully used Pixlr Editor for presentations. It does not have all of the bells and whistles as GIMP, yet it is a surprisingly effective online photo editor. This app will suffice for most hobby photographers.