Google Photos has become one of the best gallery apps, not only because of its excellent and clear gallery function, but because of a suite of powerful editing and searching tools that make changing and finding your pictures a piece of cake. Now, alongside further changes to the app’s design, Google looks set to add a whole new editing tool that could make a serious impact.
Titled “Help Me Edit”, this new feature is present in Google Photos beta version 7.38, and appears to let users ask the Gemini AI assistant to make changes to photos on their behalf. As spotted by Telegram user Zach Allen, this could be Google’s next headline feature (via Android Authority).
Help Me Edit allows for seamless and easy edits
No need to lift a finger
Google Photos already includes a number of AI-powered features, like Magic Eraser and the Magic Editor, so it’s no surprise to see more AI inclusions in the app. But where Help Me Edit stands apart is in its execution. Instead of functioning like one of the aforementioned features, where you, the user, select the sections to be altered or removed, Help Me Edit works more like a chatbot. After opening the Edit screen on an image you want to change, you’ll spot a little pop-up titled “Help me edit”. A text box will ask you how you want to change the photo, and you can type in there how you want the AI to change the photo. For instance, it can change the color of a car from red to blue.
It’s essentially the next step up from existing tools, and it echoes functionality within chatbot tools like ChatGPT, which can be asked to make edits on photos uploaded to it. The key here though is that Google Photos already has your photos, streamlining the process and opening it up to more people. Most notably, it’s similar to Reimagine, a tool already in Google Photos. However, Help Me Edit supports full sentences, while Reimagine is best used with just nouns and adjectives alone.
At the moment, there’s no indication as to when this will come out. Google hasn’t even announced the feature’s existence yet, which just goes to show quite how early on this particular feature must be in development. We’ll let you know when it finally surfaces for a full release.
