Rick Osterloh, Google Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, delivered a speech at the Google Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro mobile phone, Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Buds Pro headphone product launch event in New York on October 4, 2023.
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Google It announced Wednesday that it will make several photo editing tools powered by generative artificial intelligence free to all Google Photos users.
company said in a blog post Starting on May 15, and over the next few weeks, it will expand access to AI editing features that were previously only available on Pixel phones through its Google One cloud storage subscription.
Google Photos AI features include Magic Eraser, which removes unwanted objects from photos; Photo Unblur, which sharpens out-of-focus images; and Portrait Light, which rebalances a photo’s lighting.
Google said the expansion will also bring these features to more devices, including Pixel tablets. Google said that desktop users using the Google operating system must have a Chromebook Plus with ChromeOS version 118+ or have at least 3GB of RAM, while users on mobile devices must use Android 8.0 or iOS 15 or higher.
As part of a rollout next month, Google will also expand access to the Magic Editor feature to all Pixel devices. According to the announcement, all Google Photos users on Android and iOS will receive 10 Magic Editor photo saves per month. Pixel device users and premium Google One subscribers pay 2TB of storage and get unlimited benefits.
The Magic Editor tool, which launched with the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro last fall, uses generative AI to perform a variety of photo edits, such as repositioning subjects, removing items, or changing the color of the sky, while creating new images that fill in the gaps.
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