Your Pixel Phone Hides A Free Google Photos Ai Tool That's Pure Magic - How It Works

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ZDNET cardinal takeaways

• Google has added an awesome characteristic to Photos.
• The AI Image Expander is hidden but easy to use.
• You tin widen your photos for each sorts of purposes.

Have you ever taken a awesome photograph and thought, "This is going to beryllium my caller desktop wallpaper!" Then, erstwhile you group it arsenic such, you recognize that it doesn't rather widen to nan surface edges, and stretching it skews nan photograph retired of true.

Or possibly you want a people version, but nan image is missing thing to really make it pop.

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Well, there's a hidden characteristic recovered successful nan Google Photos app (on Pixel phones) that's correct up your alley. This caller characteristic uses AI to amended your photos successful a measurement you mightiness not person moreover realized you needed.

The characteristic is called AI Image Expander, and it allows you to widen photos to amended fresh immoderate request you person for them. You mightiness deliberation specified a characteristic requires a one-time aliases monthly costs (as it does pinch different apps for illustration Photoshop and Canva), but this clip astir it's 100% free and built correct into nan Google Photos app.

It's conscionable hidden a bit. It's besides earnestly impressive.

How to usage nan AI Image Expander

What you'll need: The only point you'll request is simply a Pixel telephone pinch an updated type of Android. Of course, you'll besides request a photograph to edit.

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There are respective cool devices you tin usage astatine this point.

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I'm astir to widen this photo. Are you fresh for it?

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Impressive, no?

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You tin past usage that extended image for desktop wallpapers, photos, PR material, aliases whatever.

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Google has pushed immoderate very awesome AI features onto nan Pixel phones, and nan extended photograph action ranks among nan astir awesome photograph tools. One logic this peculiar characteristic stands retired is that it's alternatively challenging to show nan image was expanded utilizing AI. In my testing, each expanded image looked arsenic if it were nan existent photograph I took pinch nan Pixel camera.

Give this characteristic a effort and spot if it doesn't wow you for illustration it did me.

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