Google Photos Upgrades Its Image-to-video Feature With Veo 3

Google’s latest video-generation model, Veo 3, is coming to Google Photos. The caller model, disposable connected nan mobile app’s “Create” tab, will let users successful nan U.S. to move their still images into video clips.

Google Photos already offers video procreation done its precocious added “Photo to video” feature, but nan institution says nan summation of Veo 3 enhances that functionality pinch higher-quality video. The motorboat besides represents really nan institution is moving to bring its latest AI tech to consumers done its products — Google Photos, for instance, had over 1.5 cardinal monthly progressive users arsenic of May 2025.

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Introduced successful May astatine its I/O developer conference, Google brought Veo 3, which added image-to-video generation, to its Gemini app successful July, making it disposable connected its AI Ultra and AI Pro subscription plans. On those plans, users could make 3 videos per day, which would transportation some visible and invisible watermarks to place nan videos arsenic being AI-generated.

In Google Photos, nan institution imagines users bringing memories to life, aliases moreover animating older photos. The existing image-to-video characteristic is powered by Veo 2, and fto users prime a photograph from their assemblage and take 1 of 2 prompts for either “subtle movements,” aliases a astonishment animation by tapping an “I’m emotion lucky” button. The exemplary past generates a six-second clip you could stock pinch others.

The caller photo-to-video characteristic is disposable wrong nan Create hub, a caller conception successful nan Google Photos app wherever users tin research imaginative devices and features powered by AI. In summation to Veo 3, these see a remix action to alteration a photo’s style; make a collage; put together montages from your galleries; create moving, 3D photos called “cinematic” photos; and a instrumentality to make GIFs from pics.