Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI

Google has a caller suite of imaginative creation devices for Workspace users called Google Pics, which intends to make editing and generating “professional-grade” AI images little cumbersome for businesses. Built astir Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to springiness much granular power complete prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing users to pat connected circumstantial objects aliases text, and picture what they want to alteration — features that whitethorn debar the ugly results that chatbots are known to spit out for trading imagery.

“While AI image procreation has been a immense deed for individual use, it’s been a different communicative for business,” Google said successful its announcement blog. “Teams person struggled to create professional-grade images for trading campaigns, customer presentations, and merchandise storytelling, facing inconsistent results, endless trial-and-error prompting, and cumbersome workflows crossed aggregate apps.”

Google Pics is launching arsenic some a standalone Workspace app, and arsenic an integration for Google Docs and Slides, pinch plans to rotation retired to Drive “in the coming weeks.” For the integrations, Google says users tin prime an image successful their archive aliases slideshow to edit it pinch “Pics’ afloat suite of precision AI tools.”

Those Pics devices let users to make images from scratch aliases prime and edit individual objects wrong an image utilizing descriptive prompts, which includes changing, reformatting, and translating text. Google Pics besides lets users upscale images to 2K aliases 4K resolutions, quickly harvest images into formats for web, societal media, print, aliases digital, and collaborate connected designs by sharing them pinch friends and teammates.

Similar features and AI devices are provided by dedicated imaginative platforms for illustration Canva and Adobe Express. Given Google suggests that Pics tin beryllium utilized to creation posters, flyers, and societal media posts — alongside saying it tin support users from “feeling for illustration you request to beryllium a schematic designer to present a awesome image” — Google is apt hoping that Pics will forestall Workspace users from having to usage third-party services for basal imaginative work.

After launching for testers pursuing Google I/O successful May, Google Pics is now starting to rotation retired for Workspace users connected Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus plans, Google AI Pro and Ultra individual plans, and the Google AI Pro for Education plan.