’s new photo service is finally ready for its moment on stage, according to a Bloomberg report.

There aren’t a lot of details as to what the new tool will look like, only that the new photo service will break from + include sharing to Facebook Twitter. esumably you’ll still be able to add them to your + stream, but the company looks like it’s accepted the reality that + is an also-ran in the world of social networks.

has already laid the groundwork for this transition by adding a otos folder to Drive. so, the company bought quickly closed photo-backup sharing service Odysee earlier this year, presumably to bring in some additional technology talent.

has a good set of tools to make a killer service. ong with its strong cloud capabilities with Drive the company also owns Snapseed, a rather good editing application. It just needs to tie all of these together into a streamlined, cross-platform package.

Being able to share with allow a select circle of friends family to view add pictures to an album, regardless of whether they have an ione or Android device, would be a welcome feature. There are ways to do this in Drive, Dropbox, other services, but no one’s really nailed it yet. Slick editing tools rapid backup could combine for an appealing package.

The story behind the story: has long dabbled in photos. It bought the rather dormant casa in 2004, which got its last update in August. The editing backup tools in + are rather good, but it’s been awkward having them tucked away inside a social network. Breaking photos into a stalone service sounds like the right move, but there are lots of cloud photo solutions out there. It’ll need good, easy to use editing sharing tools, at the very least, to win people over.