Google Photos expands AI-powered Remix feature to US with 13 new styles for image transformation

Google Photos finally expands access to powerful new Remix feature

Google Photos has grown considerably outside its original framework as a place to just store and manage your photos. Over the past few years, we've seen a wide range of new features surface in the app, with even more arriving after Google's interest in AI. And while some of the features can be hit-and-miss, for the most part, many of the new additions have been quite interesting. Remix is something that Google has been working on for quite some time, and is a tool that allows users to bring their images to life in new ways using powerful AI tools. While Remix did get a proper release this summer, we're now finally seeing it arrive to more people thanks to a wider release in more regions that now includes the US (via 9to5Google). These are worth trying out So what can Remix do? Well, it provides a few new ways to stylize your photos with the help of generative AI. Google Photos will provide four different options, with 3D animation, Anime, Sketch, and Comic book as options. Once you select one of these options, it will transform your selected photos, applying the new style. We've provided some examples of what this will look like, which come courtesy of Google. As you can tell, it's not something that's meant to be entirely serious, but does provide a way to make photos a bit more fun. In addition to Remix being made available to those in the US, those in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, and Turkey will also have access. You just create For the most part, accessing Remix isn't all that difficult. You just head into the Google Photos app, find "Create new", and then just hit the "Remix" section. If you explore the other tools in Google Photos, you'll also be able to create videos from still photos, animations, collages, and even highlight videos. These tools really do manage to take the hard work out of making something exciting. If you haven't given Google Photos a try in quite some time, we recommend checking it out. We think that you'll find the experience quite a bit different from what you last saw. Of course, if you're not a fan of Google Photos, there are some powerful alternatives that you can try.

Google Photos 'Remix' rolls out to more countries, adds more style choices

After launching the "Remix" tool in August in a server-side update, Google Photos is bringing the image-to-cartoon feature to more users in a much wider rollout. The Remix tool in Google Photos was announced as the company announced several AI generation tools for the gallery app. The bundle of features included Photos' photo-to-video tool and a new "Create" tab. Remix allows users to generate cartoon versions of the photos they take and store in Google Photos. The results don't differ too much from the generated images in Gemini using a "reimagine" prompt of something similar. The difference here is in user flow, as generating a stylized photo is easier from the default gallery app. On top of that, the function is free for users to play around with. According to Google, Remix is rolling out to 13 regions in a substantial expansion: In those countries, users can access a wider catalog of remix styles, expanded to 13 from the 4 that the feature launched with a few months ago. While the tool was limited to a certain number of users previously, it appears the update pushes the tool to all users in these countries. Some of those styles include 8-bit, watercolor, stickers, and odd ones like enamel pins. The feature doesn't appear to name each style individually, but some are obviously copying a known art style. The new choice list is a pretty big jump from the limited options previously available. Google Photos should be showing the Remix feature in the above regions, as Google did not indicate a time frame for the expansion.