Google Photos Gets New AI-Powered Image Editing Tools

Google is updating the Google Photos app with a redesigned AI-powered editor that's designed to simplify photo editing. The updated editing tool provides AI suggestions to combine multiple effects for quick but eye-catching edits, plus it has a feature for tapping into specific parts of an image to get specific editing tips.


The updated interface will feature AI tools like Reimagine and Auto frame alongside standard controls like brightness and contrast. The updated editor in Google Photos is rolling out to Android users first, but Google plans to bring it to iOS users later this year.

Google is also making it easier to share albums from Google ‌Photos‌ with others, by allowing users to generate a QR code for an album. The QR code can be shared with people nearby, printed for group events, or sent digitally. Anyone with the QR code can view or add photos to an album.

The new features are coming in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Google ‌Photos‌. Since it launched in 2015, Google ‌Photos‌ has become one of the most popular photo storage options. Google says that more than 1.5 billion people use Google ‌Photos‌ each month, with more than nine trillion photos and videos stored.

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Jumpthesnark Avatar
6 weeks ago
Erasing things and people who were really there, changing the sky to a perfect clear blue, adding a field of flowers or a pile of autumn leaves that weren't there... and of course make it look like people are 5 years younger and 10 lbs lighter, etc., etc., etc. What value does a photo have it's not real?

I would love social media platforms to develop filters that give people the ability to not see faked AI images if they want.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Sheepish-Lord Avatar
6 weeks ago
The ad artificially adding leaves to the ground makes no sense…it’s a fake memory and didn’t happen. Im all about editing photos to remove things like power lines but changing big aspects is just wrong.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nfl46 Avatar
6 weeks ago
It’s still crazy to me that Apple doesn’t just update their Photos, Contacts, etc apps in the App Store.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
filmantopia Avatar
6 weeks ago

The ad artificially adding leaves to the ground makes no sense…it’s a fake memory and didn’t happen. Im all about editing photos to remove things like power lines but changing big aspects is just wrong.
Totally agree. What's the point of sharing a fake world with each other, and passing it off as real?
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jbrons Avatar
6 weeks ago
I still miss Picasa and am salty they killed it off for this.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
cjsuk Avatar
6 weeks ago

The ad artificially adding leaves to the ground makes no sense…it’s a fake memory and didn’t happen. Im all about editing photos to remove things like power lines but changing big aspects is just wrong.
I agree entirely with this. It's mostly playing into the usually dishonest portrayal of your life that appears on social media. The desperate effort to present things how you want them to be perceived rather than how they are. It's fakery.

Recently I was unfortunate enough to have decided to go for a day hike somewhere which featured on TikTok without realising it. This ended in wading through piles of people taking the same photo over and over again, replicating what was shown on TikTok. Whilst sitting on a wall, a friend and me looked at what people were posting on Instagram. Well lots of heavily edited stuff which had people removed all the other people from it. Urgh.

I figured I'd preserve some reality. At least these folk didn't give up on the first hill (oh hikes are harder than they look on tiktok when you eat KFC, watch netflix and vape all day - who'd have thought it?).



In some places I've been such as Sorrento and Santorini, there are literally queues to take the same photo/selfie which will no doubt have anything remotely human edited out to make it look sanitised.

Even worse, all this does is make everything look uniform. This is then used to train more models which generate more crap and eventually all signal and art degrades into a fuzzy mush of beige, soulless crap.

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