It sits alongside Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets in your Google Drive Workspace, and it's part Canva, part Photoshop: It does a bit of graphic design (like putting together an event poster), and a bit of image editing (like cutting unwanted objects out of your vacation photos), and if you're paying for one of those Google AI plans mentioned above, you might find Google Pics is the only image creation app you need.
How to use prompts with Google Pics
Google Pics is driven primarily through text prompts, whether it's creating something new from scratch or making edits to something you've made elsewhere. From the opening screen, you can type in an image prompt just as you would with the Gemini app: Prompts for anything from photorealistic scenes to printed materials will work, and the more detail you add, the better.
The Style box lets you give Google Pics a reference to work from in terms of the overall image look and feel, while clicking on the Upload, Drive, or Photos links lets you load in an existing image ready for editing. At the very top is an aspect ratio drop-down, so you can specify the dimensions of new images, though this can be edited later too.
You can create new images or edit existing ones. Credit: LifehackerSo, you could prompt Google Pics like this: "Create an A5 flyer for a 10th birthday party for Jess, happening at the village town hall at 3 p.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday, September 20. Include lots of party decorations, including balloons, streamers, and cake, and include some small print about food and drink being provided and there being plenty of on-site parking."
From that prompt, Google Pics gave me a selection of suitable vibrant and fun-looking flyers I could choose from—all of them carrying that familiar AI "sheen" you've no doubt seen everywhere from restaurant menus to school event posters in recent times. It followed the brief directions and took seconds to do.
Google Pics does graphic design and image editing. Credit: LifehackerThis is a pretty bare-bones app though. You can undo recent edits, zoom in and out, and change the aspect ratio, but outside of the prompt box, that's just about it. You don't have any of the traditional resizing options or tools to do any drawing or touching up yourself, and there's no support for layers—so you're still going to need Photoshop and Canva around for more advanced tasks.
How to edit images in Google Pics
You can also just drag a box around something on screen to bring up a prompt box: Maybe drag a box around a party balloon and add the prompt "make this blue," or select a random stranger in your family vacation photo and say "remove this person". Any edit you can describe, you can make (or at least attempt).
You're able to select specific image elements to edit. Credit: LifehackerYou can save up all of these various edits and apply them together, which saves quite a bit of waiting and working forwards and backwards. In the case of my birthday party flyer, I was able to add lines of text, change various colors, add in new elements, and more—and if you select blocks of text, you can edit them directly without a new prompt.
Besides being useful practically, it can also be a lot of fun playing around with different edits and seeing what's possible. I got quite addicted to playing around with different photos, making changes that ranged from the large scale ("turn this into a night scene") to the small scale ("add an extra cloud here").
Image text can be edited directly. Credit: LifehackerI won't be ditching Canva and Photoshop just yet, as they're still essential for different kinds of tasks, including projects where pixel-level precision is required and where various elements need to be combined together in layers—but I can also see Google Pics proving very useful, especially with its integration with the rest of Workspace.
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