With the launch of the Pixel 10 series, Google is introducing an AI-powered tool to make editing your images easier — just ask Photos to do it. Seriously, the new feature lets you describe edits you want to make using your voice or text in the Photos app editor.
Google redesigned the Photos app earlier this year as part of celebrating a decade of photography. That redesign added more controls and options for editing photos while making it easier to edit with AI suggestions and new tools.
Today’s new tool introduces conversational capabilities to make editing even faster with “simple gestures, one-tap suggestions, and now, natural language,” which Google attributes to “advanced Gemini capabilities.”
In a blog post discussing the update, Google says you don’t need to even have a specific editing tool in mind. For example, you could ask the editor to “remove the cars in the background” and Photos is supposed to understand your prompt.
You can also make multiple requests in one prompt. For example, you could say “remove the reflections and fix the washed-out colors.”
On the simplest end of editing, you could just say “make it better” or use one of the AI suggestions. From there, you can fine-tune it with more prompts or take over editing yourself.
Beyond lighting and erasing, Google says you can also use the text or vocal prompts to do tricks like change the background or add things like sunglasses to someone’s face.
AI Transparency
Google adds that the Pixel 10 series “will be the first to implement industry-standard C2PA Content Credentials” in the camera app.
This means that images taken and edited on your Pixel 10 phone will be able to see metadata in Google Photos showing how an image was captured or edited, including if AI was used.
As you can see in the image above, the data will show if the photo was captured with a camera or generated. And then it will note if it was edited with AI and non-AI tools according to C2PA standards. This is coupled with IPTC metadata for AI-edited images and SynthID for any photos edited with the Reimagine tool.
Google says this information is being made available in the name of transparency when it comes to AI in images.
Availability
The new conversational editing tool will be available for Pixel 10 devices first and coming to Android and iOS devices “in the coming weeks.”
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