Facebook now auto-enhances your photos

USA: Back in the olden days, you'd take a photo, get it processed at Boots, groan when the person in the pic had red-eye and then chuck it in the bin.

Now though, you can take as many shots as you like, keep the ones you love and delete the blurry, weird ones.

You can even enhance them with the kind of tools that were previously only available to experts who worked on computers that cost more than the average holiday. With the touch of the button, you can apply filters and make edits that can make a huge difference to your snaps.

If you’re a Facebook user, things just got even better – your app will now auto-enhance your snaps before you post them to your page, according to a TechCrunch report.

That’s right – you don’t even need to attempt to master the brightness and contrast sliders any more or worry which one of those filters will make your kebab shop selfie look better.

From now on, Facebook will do it all for you, making you look the very best that you can be as you wave that doner kebab into the lens.

It’s the latest strike in the photo-sharing battle that is hitting up in the world of social media.

Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook-owned Instagram have all recently upgraded their pic-enhancement options. Facebook is clearly drawing on some of the Instagram know-how it has acquired to stay ahead of its competitors.

The auto-enhance feature is available on a new update of iOS Facebook right now with the Android version to follow very soon.