Google’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image-creation tools

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Google’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image-creation tools
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[Kyle Wiggers](https://techcrunch.com/author/kyle-wiggers/)

3:36 PM PDT · April 30, 2025

Google’s Gemini chatbot app now lets you modify both AI-generated images and images uploaded from your phone or computer, [the company said in a blog post on Wednesday](https://blog.google/products/gemini/image-editing/).

Native image editing in Gemini will start rolling out gradually today. The service will be expanded to people in most countries and get support for more than 45 languages in the coming weeks.

The launch follows an AI image-editing model Google piloted in its AI Studio platform in March, which went viral for its controversial ability to [remove watermarks from any image](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/people-are-using-googles-new-ai-model-to-remove-watermarks-from-images/). Similar to [ChatGPT’s recently upgraded image-editing tool](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/chatgpts-image-generation-feature-gets-an-upgrade/), Gemini’s newfangled native image editor can, in theory, achieve better results than stand-alone AI image generators.

Gemini now offers a “multi-step” editing flow that delivers what the company describes as “richer, more contextual” responses to each prompt with text and images integrated. You can change the background in images, replace objects, add elements, and more within Gemini.

![Image 6: Google Gemini image editing](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MMGen_Hero_2097x1182_v2.width-2200.format-webp.webp?w=680)

Editing an image using Gemini.**Image Credits:**Google

“For example, you can upload a personal photo and prompt Gemini to generate an image of what you’d look like with different hair colors,” explains Google in a blog post. “[Or] you could ask Gemini to create a first draft of a bedtime story about dragons and provide images to go along with the story.”

If this sounds like a deepfake risk, well, that’s reasonable. To allay fears, images created or edited with Gemini’s native image generation will include an invisible watermark, according to Google. The company is also “experimenting” with visible watermarks on all Gemini-generated images.

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