Google’s Reimagine feature in Magic Editor brings generative A.I. to photo editing for Pixel users. Recent updates allow users to describe by text or voice the edits for photos.
The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post
- Are you in the group of smartphone owners who do not have an iPhone? If not, it is likely that you have a Pixel.
- Pixels have been getting a lot of attention from tech enthusiasts because of the superior integration of A.I. in comparison with the Apple Intelligence effort on iPhones.
- The Pixel 10, which is where the recent photo-editing features began rollout, in particular has been a subject of discussion because of just how broad a reach the A.I. applications have in the phone. In fact, there has been some concern in reviews about privacy issues with handing over just so much data to A.I..
- Opening the Google Photos photo editor affords users access to generative-A.I. features for re-image-ining images.
- Being able to quickly automate photo editing on smartphones could be highly useful in the future for editing on the go or in a time crunch. Business owners could use such features to get touched-up and refined visual content out quicker.
The Significance for Business Owners
Photo editing can be a time-consuming process and put a delay on your content scheduling.
The nice thing about generative-A.I. content editing is that it can speed things up quite a bit. Also, it is really quite user-friendly and convenient, opening the door to easy photo editing to people with no real background in that area.
In Google’s photo editor, tapping or circling elements in images specifies what to change. One example is editing out a “photobomber” in a photo meant to be serious.
Google also lets users give follow-up instructions after an edit to keep the conversational flow of the editing process going. This will prove useful for many, as it is a lucky thing when A.I. gets an edit completely correct at first; at least, so long as the edit is not easy-peasy simple.
What Exactly Can You Do in Google Photos?
Small or subtle tweaks are just the start here, really, since you can go beyond just lighting or object removal for snipping out fire hydrants on the sidewalk and replacing the empty space with what the part of the sidewalk would look like without the fire hydrant.
Going deeper here involves edits like background changes, which can be useful for things like product photo shoots. Instead of having to set up a little background set, you can just shoot the photo in front of a random background and have the A.I. make it look like the item is, for instance, on the beach of an island.
You could also do some costuming and props as well. For instance, you can have A.I. add glasses to a model in a photoshoot. Or add a prop like a beach ball in the air, while changing the background to that of a beach.
Really, these edits can be quite drastic, as it can change the setting and subject of the photos.
Caveats for A.I. Photo Editing
As anyone who has spent some time trying to get a particular output from A.I., there can be a frustrating back-and-forth of prompting and reprompting the A.I.
Especially with photo editing, where the A.I. may get some things right and some things wrong in an edit, yet it can be difficult to reprompt to keep the correct things and alter the wrong things.
Even with useful features like the circling of specific areas for the A.I. to target in photos, you may still get caught in a reprompting spiral of trying and failing to get the A.I. to make the fix you want.
In these cases, having the know-how yourself in photo editing is useful. And if you do not have that, then as a business owner it will pay off to have someone on your team who can.
The Last (But Not Least) Key Takeaway from This Blog Post
Even if you are not going to spring for an Android over your iPhone, then you can still count on photo-editing A.I. of this sophistication to reach your smartphone sooner or later. In that way, then, the advice in this blog should prepare you for the future of photo editing on smartphones.
Other Great GO AI Blog Posts
GO AI the blog offers a combination of information about, analysis of, and editorializing on A.I. technologies of interest to business owners, with especial focus on the impact this tech will have on commerce as a whole.
On a usual week, there are multiple GO AI blog posts going out. Here are some notable recent articles:
- For Businesses and Other Organizations, What Makes a Successful Chatbot?
- IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini: How Will Each Affect Search Engines?
- Using A.I. to Find Resources for Business Owners
- How Would Restricting Open-Source A.I. Affect Business Owners?
- The EU’s A.I. Act Has Become Law: The Implications for Business Owners (Especially American)
In addition to our GO AI blog, we also have a blog that offers important updates in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), with blog posts like “Google Ends Its Plan to End Third-Party Cookies”.
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