You no longer need photo editing software to make changes to your photos. Gemini will let you do that using simple text prompts. 

In a blog post on Wednesday, Google announced that it’s bringing AI image editing directly to the Gemini app. You can upload images from your phone or computer and provide prompts for changes you’d like to see. At launch, Gemini’s AI image editor can change the background, replace objects, and add elements, Google says.

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The update also allows you to leverage Gemini’s multi-modal capabilities to generate a combination of text and personalized images. Sharing an example, Google says, “You could ask Gemini to create a first draft of a bedtime story about dragons and provide images to go along with the story.”

Google began the gradual rollout of Gemini’s photo editing capabilities on Wednesday. In the coming weeks, it will be available in most countries and in over 45 languages, Google says.

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All images modified using Gemini will carry an invisible SynthID digital watermark, which is Google’s open-source tech for detecting AI-generated images. The company is also considering adding the watermark to all images generated by Gemini, and not just the ones it edits.

OpenAI also watermarks images generated by its GPT-4o model. The company embeds ChatGPT’s image outputs with C2PA metadata to allow AI image detectors to identify the images it generates. 

ChatGPT’s native image generation capability rolled out last month. In the first week of release, around 130 million ChatGPT users generated over 700 million images. Studio Ghibli-inspired images were trending on social media, though some outputs were a bit disturbing.