Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to Pixel devices and paid subscribers — including its AI-powered Magic Editor — will now make their strategy to all Google Photos users without cost. This expansion also includes Google’s Magic Eraser, which removes unwanted items from photos; Photo Unblur, which uses machine learning to sharpen blurry photos; Portrait Light, which permits you to change the sunshine source on photos after the very fact, and others.
The editing tools have historically been a selling point for Google’s high-end devices, the Pixel phones, in addition to a draw for Google’s cloud storage subscription product, Google One. But with the growing variety of AI-powered editing tools flooding the market, Google has decided to make its set of AI photo editing features available to more people without cost.
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There are some caveats to this expansion, nonetheless.
For starters, the tools will only start rolling out on May 15 and it should take weeks for them to make it to all Google Photos users.
As well as, there are some hardware device requirements to have the ability to make use of them. On ChromeOS, as an example, the device should be a Chromebook Plus with ChromeOS version 118+ or have no less than 3GB RAM. On mobile, the device must run Android 8.0 or higher or iOS 15 or higher.
The corporate notes that Pixel tablets will now be supported, as well.
Magic Editor is essentially the most notable feature of the group. Introduced last yr with the launch of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, this editing tool uses generative AI to do more complicated photo edits — like filling in gaps in a photograph, repositioning the topic and other edits to the foreground or background of a photograph. With Magic Editor, you may change a gray sky to blue, remove people from the background of a photograph, recenter the photo subject while filling in gaps, remove other clutter and more.
Previously, these sorts of edits would require Magic Eraser and other skilled editing tools, like Photoshop, to get the identical effect. And people edits can be more manual, not automated via AI.
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With the expansion, Magic Editor will come to all Pixel devices, while iOS and Android users (whose phones meet the necessities) will get 10 Magic Editor saves monthly. To transcend that, they’ll still must buy a Premium Google One plan — meaning 2TB of storage and above.
The opposite tools shall be available to all Google Photos users, no Google One subscription is required. The total set of features that can turn out to be available includes Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, Sky suggestions, Color pop, HDR effect for photos and videos, Portrait Blur, Portrait Light (plus the add light/balance light features within the tool), Cinematic Photos, Styles within the Collage Editor and Video Effects.
Other features just like the AI-powered Best Take — which merges similar photos to create a single best shot where everyone seems to be smiling — will proceed to be available only to Pixel 8 and eight Pro.