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Scary good Pixel 8 Pro gen AI turns photos into paintings: Photographers losing their jobs?\u060c<\/p>\n

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“I haven\u2019t been as excited and as terrified about a new software feature since\u2026 literally forever. It\u2019s 1 AM right now, and I\u2019m on my fifth 15-minute long YouTube video about Adobe\u2019s generative AI”.<\/span><\/p>\n

This short paragraph is from a story I never finished – I wrote it down after first discovering Adobe\u2019s Generative Fill feature (now part of Photoshop). After seeing what the generative AI can do with photos, I loaded some of my old pictures into Photoshop and started to add, remove, or expand content in the images with simple text prompts powered by Adobe\u2019s mind-blowing generative AI. I might or might not have asked the AI to give me blonde hair.As a bit of a tech nerd, I was seriously impressed with what generative AI can do, but I was also having real fun involving a computer for the first time in ages (I stopped gaming a long time ago).<\/p>\n

At the same time, I kept doing research on the topic. Video<\/a> after video and article after article\u2026 It began looking like Adobe\u2019s mind-blowing AI features might be \u201ctoo good\u201d. Some photographers reviewing the generative AI in Photoshop were expressing serious concerns over losing their jobs. The same is true for designers, hairstylists and pretty much every person involved in the visual\/creative medium.<\/p>\n

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If I run a modelling agency and want my models to have blonde hair, for a particular photoshoot, I can now get Photoshop to give all of them a hairdo that looks scarily authentic, without having to pay a hairdresser and a hairstylist to do the job. You want to fix your wedding photo where someone blinked or got in the frame? You can do this with a simple prompt in Photoshop. A photographer with experience in editing would need hours to get a similar result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But generative AI doesn\u2019t have to live on a piece of software only your laptop can run, and Google\u2019s new Pixel 8 Pro<\/a> flagship is now the living proof for that.<\/p>\n

Google<\/a> kept the promise it made during I\/O 2023, and the new Magic Editor is now here, right in the Pixel\u2019s Photos app. Because smartphones just got more exciting<\/a> again! Exciting and controversial.<\/p>\n

Google Pixel 8 Pro\u2019s generative AI takes social media by storm with jaw-dropping Photoshop-level photo editing<\/h2>\n

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As you can see in the samples above, one of the main features of the new Magic Editor is to be a more powerful Magic Eraser, which better understands context, and doesn\u2019t simply erase objects from the photo but replaces them with much more realistic pixels, or objects that weren\u2019t there in the first place – like in the example with the car (which was there in the original photo) and the bush (which wasn\u2019t).We can also see that shadows and reflections are somewhat challenging for the Magic Editor, which struggles to remove the reflection of the colorful backpack in one of the examples. Still, I\u2019m pretty sure if you had to convince someone the bag was never there, the Pixel 8\u2019s edit would totally get the job done.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the last edit (courtesy of Max Weinback), you can see how good the Magic Editor can be when it comes to some textures (the carpet, the wall), and how mediocre of a job it can do as far as complicated shakes like the door ledge and curtains are concerned. What you might\u2019ve missed is that the yellow sign in the top left corner of the photo has been moved down to cover the power outlet.<\/p>\n

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All that being said, I\u2019m more than sure most people would never notice these photos were altered in any way, especially if they are looking at them on Instagram or Snapchat. Of course, inspective the images closely (on a large monitor) is a different story, but even then, you\u2019d still need a keen eye to pinpoint the imperfection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Google\u2019s new Magic Editor goes way beyond removing objects from your photo – you can create completely new backgrounds and even generate portions of the image that were never there before<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
But once you start<\/a> playing around with the generative AI and let the Magic Editor\u2019s \u201cimagination\u201d run wild, things start to get\u2026 scary.<\/p>\n

The above samples come from Ben Sin, and as you can see selecting the busy background in a photo now doesn\u2019t just let you remove people and objects but replace the background altogether. The cutout of the lady in the first photo looks pretty spectacular and makes for a totally different picture than the original.<\/p>\n

The photo of the street musician is where the Pixel 8\u2019s true AI power comes into play, as the Magic Editor has managed to recreate the guitarist\u2019s legs, which aren\u2019t visible in the original image. Ben says it took several attempts to achieve this result, but again – it looks pretty convincing (if you don\u2019t look closely). The photo of the dog is similarly brilliant at recreating what you couldn\u2019t see in the original photo.<\/p>\n

How is Google Magic Editor generative AI different from Adobe\u2019s Generative Fill?<\/h2>\n
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Google’s AI photo editing is easy to use but it often misses the mark. Adobe’s Generative Fill seems like a pro-grade tool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Without a doubt, the most impressive part about the Magic Editor generative AI feature on Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro<\/span> is how simple and easy it is to use. However, there are some notable differences compared to Adobe\u2019s super-powerful Generative Fill:<\/p>\n