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The Hindu
a day ago
- The Hindu
Google announces new AI editor for quicker photo fixes
As Google this week celebrates ten years of its Photos offering, the company launched a redesigned AI-powered editor that consolidates multiple tools and features for easier photo fixes. The new AI editor gives users suggestions to fix their images, and brings major editing tools to one location. These can be used for overall edits as well as to get suggestions or edits for specific parts of an image. Google also announced that tools such as Reimagine and Auto Frame, which were launched as part of the AI-powered Magic Editor offering for Pixel 9, would be coming to more devices. These GenAI features will be placed near other standard photo editing controls. Google said the new editor would begin rolling out globally to Android devices next month while iOS users will get the update later in the year. In addition to this, Google announced an easier way to share photo albums with others. Users can now generate QR codes to let people near them easily view albums or even get photos printed. Those with the QR code can also add photos. 'Today, more than 1.5 billion people use Google Photos each month, with over 9 trillion total photos and videos stored. Every month, you perform more than 370 million searches, share 440 million memories and edit 210 million photos,' said Shimrit Ben-Yair, Vice President, Google Photos & Google One in the post.
Engadget
3 days ago
- Engadget
Google Photos gets new AI features for its 10-year anniversary
Google Photos is 10 years old. To honor the anniversary, the company revamped the app's editor. Naturally, AI plays a leading role. The redesigned Photos adds AI-powered editors previously exclusive to the Pixel 9's Magic Editor. That includes Auto Frame, which suggests crops for your pics. If that requires new parts, it will use AI to generate them. Also moving over from the Pixel is Reimagine. That's where you can add elements like fall leaves or green grass that weren't there. It can be equal parts neat and unsettling. We described it as "blurring the line between which of your memories are real and which are not." The results are convincing enough that Google recently began watermarking them as AI-generated. The Google Photos update also adds a new AI Enhance feature. As The Verge notes, selecting it produces three edits. (It generates them with existing tweaks like sharpening and object removal.) Then, you pick the result you like best. The new AI Enhance feature sits in the Edit menu, alongside the app's existing Enhance and Dynamic buttons. Google also made it easier to share albums. You can now generate a QR code linking to your album. Let a friend scan it directly, or print it out in a group setting. The redesigned editor arrives on Android devices in June. Google says the iOS version will follow "later this year."
The Verge
3 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
Google Photos adds Pixel-exclusive AI features to redesigned editor
Google Photos is being overhauled with more AI features that help users quickly edit their images without requiring advanced skills or professional apps. The redesigned Photos editor puts several AI editing tools — including two generative AI Magic Editor features that were only available on Pixel devices — in one place, alongside helpful suggestions on which tool to use. With this update, Google Photos is expanding the availability of AI-powered automatic framing and text-to-image Reimagine features that debuted on the Pixel 9. The Auto Frame tool, located in the top left of the redesigned editor, suggests different compositions that crop or widen images, using generative AI to fill in any blank spaces. The Reimagine feature goes a step further by allowing users to add anything to their photos by just describing it, the results of which can be a little concerning at times. Otherwise, the most noticeable change is the UI, which replaces the previous double-tiered editor menu with a single row of three thumbnail buttons: the Enhance and Dynamic editing options already provided in Google Photos, as well as a new AI Enhance feature. Selecting AI Enhance will produce three edits that automatically combine multiple AI effects like image sharpening and object removal, allowing users to select their preferred results. Users can also draw over specific areas of an image to select an object and make targeted edits. A pop-up tool menu will appear that suggests the best effects to apply, such as moving the person or object, blurring the background, or adjusting the lighting. This should both help users make better edits and make it easier and faster to find the right tool without having to hunt through tabs and menus. Google says that everything mentioned above is rolling out globally to Android devices next month, with iOS following 'later this year.' The Verge asked Google for more information regarding which Android devices will be supported, but we haven't heard back yet. Another Google Photos feature starting to roll out now allows users to share an album in their library by generating a QR code. People can easily view or add photos to the album by scanning the code instead of going through the usual sharing permissions, making it a convenient alternative when sharing with large groups, such as wedding guests or event attendees.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Yahoo
The Pixel 9a launches on April 10 in the US
Google's Pixel 9a, a candidate to be the "midrange smartphone king," was announced last week but delayed at the last second due to a component problem. Today, we finally know when the handset will arrive: April 10 in North America. In an update to a Pixel 9a support page (via 9to5Google) on Friday, Google wrote that the phone will arrive on April 10 in the US, Canada and the UK. On April 14, it will land in a long list of European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Meanwhile, Australia, India, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia have to wait until April 16. Pre-announcement reports suggested the phone would arrive on March 26, but Google said on the day of its unveiling that it was delayed into April. An unverified leak hinted that the pushback was related to camera-related heating problems, but Google only said it was to address a "component quality issue that's affecting a small number of Pixel 9a devices." Regardless of the specifics, at least the problem ultimately only amounted to a short delay. The Pixel 9a has dual cameras, a Tensor G4 chip and AI tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, Best Take and Photo Unblur. (However, an Ars Technica report suggests it runs an "extra extra small" version of Gemini.) In his hands-on, Engadget's Sam Rutherford found the midrange phone to offer compelling features and performance relative to its $499 and up pricing. The phone isn't yet available for pre-order.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Yahoo
Google Photos will add a hidden watermark to your AI-edited images
Google's bet on AI is no secret, and it becomes evident the moment you launch any of its software products. The Google Photos app has been one of the earliest recipients of all this AI love. Now, it's time for some transparency. Remember Magic Editor, your gateway to AI-powered editing in the Google Photos app? Moving forward, images that have received an AI makeover using the Reimagine tool in Magic Editor will get an invisible watermark. Reimagine lets you make edits using natural language commands. All you have to do is select the elements you want to play with, and then describe the desired changes as a sentence. It can change the background, remove certain items, and add new elements, among other tricks. You won't see the watermark though, as that happens at the Pixel level in AI-edited photos. Google is using the SynthID digital watermarking tool to label photos that have had an artistic lift from its AI. It may not always be accurate, especially when dealing with subtle changes. 'In some cases, edits made using Reimagine may be too small for SynthID to label and detect — like if you change the color of a small flower in the background of an image,' says the company. SynthID was developed by Google DeepMind as a digital watermarking tool for AI-generated visual media. It can not be perceived by the human eye, but machines and online systems can flag it, including Google Search. When the watermark is added to a picture, it doesn't affect its quality. Even if you crop the AI-generated picture, change the color profile, add filters, or compress it, SynthID will retain the AI signature. Aside from images created by Google's Imagen model, SynthID has also been baked at the heart of clips generated by the Veo video generation model. The role of AI editing in an image can also be confirmed by checking out the 'About this image' data. You can access this section for online images using Chrome browser and within Google Image Search. Aside from giving information such as the date when an image was first indexed by Google Search and where it first popped up online, it will also provide details about its AI origins. The 'About this image' data can also be accessed using the Circle to Search feature on smartphones and via Google Lens in the Google mobile app for Android and iOS platforms. Whether you get copyright protection for such images depends on the extent of AI used. Google's approach is different from standards such as C2PA, which are also gaining traction and employ cryptography methods to modify the image metadata. Notably, Google is also a committee member of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), alongside Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
