Google Photos AI Enhance is now live for all users | Infinium-tech

It appears that Google is working hard on expanding its editing options in Google Photos. We recently saw Online Titan add a quick facial touch-up feature. Now another similar feature has gone live. This is a very simple and straightforward “AI Enhance” button that sits next to the Enhance and Dynamic buttons that were already present in the Auto tab in the image editor.

We tried it out for ourselves, and while it can restore highlights and shadows quite effectively and deal with the usual problems caused by poor lighting and enhance colors a bit, it’s not really spectacular by any means. Certainly nothing that competing AI enhancement solutions aren’t already capable of. Still, being subtle isn’t always a bad thing, especially when it comes to photography, and we appreciate having an extra tool to play with. Also, it looks like AI Enhance is now available to all Android users worldwide, and it appears to be free in its current form.

One interesting thing here is that Google claims that “Output varies by device”. This is a pretty clear indication that at least some processing is taking place on the device. That said, we tried using it completely offline, and it refused to work, so don’t expect it to be completely untethered.

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