## Reportedly, Google provided a demo version at this week’s Google I/O developer conference, showing how good AI is at editing photos Google Photos is expanding its AI integration to help Users edit and enhance their photo quality. Accordingly, although Google has integrated AI for tools like Magic Eraser to remove unwanted content from photos, or in the Photo Unblur feature to help edit photos in Google Photos, the company still wants to continue to push. more use of artificial intelligence. Specifically, AI will be integrated into the Magic Editor tool in Google Photos , helping users in more complex photo editing tasks. The tool, Google says, will combine AI techniques, including generalized AI, to edit and even re-simulate photos. Reportedly, Google provided a demo version at this week’s Google I/O developer conference, showing how good the AI ​​is at photo editing With Magic Editor, users will be able to edit parts of the image. specific features of the photo — like the foreground or background — as well as fill in the gaps in the image or even reposition the subject for a better frame. For example, Google demonstrated how Magic Editor can be used to improve a photo of a person standing in front of a waterfall. In the Magic Editor demo, the user was able to first remove other people from the background of the photo, and then remove the bag strap from the subject’s shoulder for a clearer view. While these edits were previously available in Google Photos through the Magic Eraser, repositioning objects in photos is a new feature. Here, the AI ​​”crops” the subject in the foreground of the photo, then allows the user to reposition that person elsewhere in the photo by dragging and dropping. This is similar to the cropping feature that Apple introduced with iOS 16 last year. Accordingly, the feature can also separate the subject from the rest of the image to do things like copy and paste part of the image into another application, get the subject from the image found through the finder. Search Safari or place the subject of the photo in front of the watch on the iOS Lock Screen. However, in Google Photos, this feature is intended to help users create better photos. Another demo shows how the Magic Editor’s ability to reposition objects can also be combined with the ability to fill in gaps in an image with AI techniques. In this example, a boy is sitting on a bench holding a bunch of balloons, but the bench is skewed to the left of the photo. Magic Editor allows you to drag the boy and the bench closer to the center of the photo. At the same time, this tool uses AI to create more benches and balloons to fill the rest of the photo. In the final operation, users can lighten the sky behind the photo so that it has a brighter blue color with white fluffy clouds, instead of the gray, overcast sky of the original image. The sky-filling feature is similar to what many other photo-editing apps can do, such as Lensa or Lightricks’ Photoleap. However, the difference is that this feature is built into a single photo editing application, instead of requiring users to download additional third-party tools. The result of tweaks, at least in feature demos, is well-composed, natural-looking images, not necessarily images that look like they’ve been heavily edited or have been edited out. AI generated. Google says it will release Magic Editor as an experimental feature later this year. However, the company confirmed that this tool will still have certain errors when operating, and will be continuously updated. The company says user testing and feedback will help the feature improve over time, given that users are currently editing 1.7 billion photos a month using Google Photos. However, it remains unclear whether Google will eventually charge for this feature, or even become an exclusive feature on Google’s Pixel line of devices. Maybe, Google will make Magic Editor a privilege for users who subscribe to Google One service, as it did with Magic Eraser earlier this year. Initially, the feature will be available to “selected” Pixel devices, but Google declined to share which phones will get the feature first. The company said it also plans to share more about AI technology when it launches a beta later this year, but won’t share more details right now.
