One of the many exciting announcements Google made at this year’s I/O event is the Magic Editor – which can magically erase, move and colour objects in a photo.
This is more of an extension to the current Magic Eraser in Google Photos, where users can remove unwanted objects from an image. Magic Editor uses generative AI to perform operations and will be available to everyone later this year.
Google Photos Magic Editor
We knew that Google’s I/O event would mostly be about the AI stuff, considering how challenging the new field is getting lately. While we’re expecting most of it to be directed to developers, Google brought some interesting stuff for users as well.
One among them is the Magic Editor – an AI tool for editing photos. Magic Editor is an extension of Magic Eraser, which Google debuted in 2021 with the Pixel 6 series. After making it exclusively available for Pixel phones, Google brought this feature to all the latest Android phones, packed in Google One subscription.
Magic Editor will use “semantic understanding and generative AI,” to edit objects in a photo, says Google. Some of these include repositioning the subject, removing, scaling or colouring them as needed. While Adobe’s Photoshop can do this too, it’s not easy to work on it.
Open new avenues of creativity with Magic Editor—the new AI-powered editor in @GooglePhotos, available for early access to select #Pixel devices later this year 🎉#GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/rkixvBqVHZ
— Made by Google (@madebygoogle) May 10, 2023
In Magic Editor, users can just long-press on the subject to let AI automatically recognise it and move it as needed. Though it might fail in some challenging situations, it should do the said work in most use cases.
While this feature is exciting, Google has the habit of not bringing most of the stuff announced at it’s I/O event for months or even years! So don’t be thrilled unless you see the new Magic Editor on your phones, later this year.
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