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  • Turn Your Photos Into YouTube Shorts Using AI

    Turn Your Photos Into YouTube Shorts Using AI

    Google announced today that Photos users can turn their photos into videos using AI. To spread the love, they have also announced the same thing for YouTube Shorts creators. You’ll simply upload a photo to YouTube, then Veo 2 can have some fun and generate a whole storyline for you around the photo.

    Google says, “This feature instantly transforms any static photo from your gallery into a dynamic Short. Your pictures have stories and now you can bring them to life!” Mind you, the stories are fictional and we hope that they are labeled as such, but nevertheless here we are.

    Making them is easy enough and it’s completely free to use for the time being.

    How to Use Veo 2

    1. Open the main YouTube mobile app
    2. Tap the ➕ (create) button
    3. On the bottom left, tap “Add” for the media picker
    4. Select your image
    5. At the top, select “Photo to video” then one of the provided suggestions
    6. Tap “Create video” then choose your video settings and upload from there!

    More Generative Effects for YouTube Shorts: YouTube is also including a way to generate effects for your videos. With this, you can quickly take a selfie video and then generate effects to make it really interesting. For example, you can be walking on a city street and then generate yourself going underwater.

    There are lots of tools to play with, and again, it’s all free to use for now. Go have some fun, but do responsibly.

    // YouTube

  • Google Photos Crazy New Tool Lets You Turn Photos Into Videos

    Google Photos Crazy New Tool Lets You Turn Photos Into Videos

    Google is introducing a couple of new features today within Google Photos that were inevitable, thanks to AI. Whether these are good or bad features is not up for me to decide, although you can probably imagine where I’m leaning. Either way, just know that you’ll now be able to take a photo and have AI make a video out of it. You’ll also be able to “remix” a photo into anime or cartoon or a 3D animation.

    Google Photos new AI tools – Photo to Video, Remix, Create tab: In total, there are actually 3 announcements from Google today. There’s “Photo to Video” and “Remix,” but they are giving us a new “Create” tab too. This will be the place where all of your AI items live, with the potential for more or less tools in the future, depending on how all this goes.

    The new Google Photos “Photo to Video” feature is probably the one to really focus on here, as your imagination goes places with this that maybe our still photos shouldn’t go. Thankfully, that’s not Google’s plan for now. Instead, Google will let you choose a photo and and then pick from two options of “Subtle movement” or “I’m feeling lucky.” These will then create short 6-second AI-generated clips of your photo.

    This new “Photo to Video” feature will begin rolling out as early as today in the US on Android and iOS.

    Google Photos - Photo to Video Feature

    And then we have “Remix,” which is a feature where you’ll choose a photo and then turn it into a style. Google suggests style choices of “anime, comics, sketches or 3D animations,” though there could be more we aren’t seeing or that will arrive in the future. This is a silly feature that could be fun at times and is mostly harmless. But please, don’t make a wedding photo into a cartoon, share it publicly, and think anyone cares, OK?

    This new “Remix” feature will start rolling out in the US on Android and iOS in the “next few weeks.”

    Google Photos - Remix Feature

    Finally, we have the new “Create” tab that will show up in August in the US. This tab is simply a place for all of your creative-type tools within Google Photos to live. You’ll find the two new features we mentioned above, as well as your collages, highlight videos, and others.

    Google says that they want to bring these tools “responsibly” to the world, so they are adding SynthID digital watermarks to both Remix and Photo to Video creations. They will also try to proactively identify other issues to prevent misuse and want your feedback, so be sure to use thumbs up or down buttons if you like or dislike something their tools create.

    Thoughts?

    // Google

  • Google’s Gemini Can Now Turn Your Photos Into Crazy AI Videos

    Google’s Gemini Can Now Turn Your Photos Into Crazy AI Videos

    After expanding Veo 3 support to the Gemini app on Pixel phones yesterday in the mini July Pixel Feature Drop, Google has another Veo-related announcement to share today. Folks with a Google AI Pro subscription can now (on desktop) tell it to take a photo and create a video out of it.

    Gemini Veo 3 photo-to-video creation: The idea here is pretty straight-forward and seems mostly like Google flexing the power of its AI video creation tool. You simply click the “Video” tool in Gemini and then the “Add photo” button to upload a photo. Once the photo is there, you describe what you want Veo 3 to do with it and it’ll attempt to create that vision in video form. It’ll even add sound to it.

    I’ve been playing with it for the last 30 minutes or so and it can be hit or miss. For example, I had it create a really neat video of someone pouring a dark liquid into a martini and then lighting it on fire. It looks quite realistic. I also took a concert photo and had a demon crawl over the top of the stage and scream into the air. While clearly a fake video, it was pretty fun. However, I then told it to transform an extended golf cart into a transformer and wave at the camera, which it attempted, but created the cheesiest animation ever.

    Anyway, if you have the subscription give it a try and have some fun. Google says this new functionality is rolling out “starting” today. (Gemini Link)

    // Google