Imagen 3: The AI tool for image creation is now available to all users

All Gemini users can now generate images using Imagen 3. Imagen 3 was showcased at I/O 2024 in May and announced in August, with Gems. Google claims that Imagen 3 provides greater adaptability, faster understanding, higher quality photos, and better text rendering.

"Imagen 3 is our highest quality image generation model yet, bringing an even higher degree of photorealism, better instruction following, and fewer distracting artefacts than ever before," Google stated in a post on the Google Gemini App.

To use the features, users must enter prompts that begin with "draw," "generate," or "create," followed by the preferred style, such as photorealistic, watercolour, painting, or cartoon illustration. Gemini alerts users that an image is being created with Imagen 3 and can be downloaded with a SynthID watermark. Google explains SynthID as follows: "SynthID watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or video."

Currently, free users cannot generate photos of individuals. In May, Google began providing early access to this feature in English to Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise users.

In related news, Google is introducing the "Ask Photos" feature to a restricted group of US customers. This feature, powered by Gemini, is being rolled out as a server-side update within the Google Photos app, so it is not affected by the version of Google Photos that users are using. Ask Photos enables users to ask natural language queries directly within Google Photos, employing Google's Gemini AI models.