Google Photos Adds Ai Features For ‘remixing’ Photos In Different Styles, Turning Pics Into Videos

Google Photos is getting awesome AI chops. On Wednesday, Google announced a fistful of caller features that will let users to get much imaginative pinch their photograph memories, including an action to move photos into videos, and “remix” photos into different styles, for illustration anime, comics, sketches aliases 3D animations.

The app will besides centralize entree to its imaginative devices — including some AI-powered and accepted devices — successful a caller “Create” tab successful nan Photos app. The 2 recently launched features will beryllium housed successful this tab, alongside different devices that fto you create collages, highlight videos, and different things.

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The update brings AI prowess to 1 of Google’s astir celebrated consumer-facing services: Google Photos coming has over 1.5 cardinal users. That will put AI into much people’s hands, including those who person not spent arsenic overmuch clip experimenting pinch what AI tin do. It besides gives Google a ample guidelines to study from arsenic group effort retired nan caller features.

The institution noted these features are experimental, truthful it will inquire users to time off a thumbs-up aliases thumbs-down connected nan AI-generated images and videos to supply feedback. That feedback will thief Google to amended nan merchandise and wide experience, it says.

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With nan caller photo-to-video feature, akin to nan offering already disposable successful Gemini (and, as of today, YouTube), users will beryllium capable to make short videos from their ain photos utilizing Google’s Veo 2 model. In past years, animating aged family photos was a clever trick, driving downloads of apps for illustration MyHeritage arsenic group brought long-past relatives to life. Now, that expertise is being commoditized pinch nan usage of AI.

Once you’ve selected a photo, you tin take from 1 of 2 prompts — “Subtle movements,” aliases “I’m emotion lucky” — to move nan photograph into a six-second video clip.

Photo to Video is rolling retired from coming to users successful nan U.S. connected Android and iOS.

Meanwhile, nan caller Remix feature, powered by Google’s Imagen AI model, lets you prime immoderate photograph from your gallery, past toggle shape it into a different style successful conscionable seconds.

This characteristic will beryllium disposable successful nan U.S. connected Android and iOS successful nan adjacent fewer weeks.

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Both features will see an invisible SynthID digital watermark connected their outputs to place them arsenic being AI-generated. Google Photos already does this pinch different AI tools, like images edited utilizing Reimagine, for example. Generated videos will besides see a ocular watermark, akin to those generated by Gemini.

The Create tab will get successful nan U.S. successful August. Google says it will update nan tab complete time, adding caller devices and experiments, and refining existing options.

The AI features were introduced alongside akin devices for YouTube Shorts, which is besides now offering its ain photo-to-video action arsenic good arsenic caller AI effects, powered by Veo 2. (Shorts will get entree to Veo 3 later this summer, Google said.)