{"slug": "google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai", "title": "Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI", "summary": "Google has launched Google Pics, a new AI-powered image generation and editing suite for Workspace users, built around Gemini and the Nano Banana model, offering precision tools like object-level editing, text translation, and 2K/4K upscaling. The app, which also integrates with Google Docs and Slides, is rolling out to Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Google AI Pro, Ultra, and Education plans, aiming to help businesses create professional-grade marketing images without third-party tools.", "body_md": "Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating “professional-grade” AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to give more granular control over prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing users to tap on specific objects or text, and describe what they want to change — features that may avoid the [ugly results](https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/) that [chatbots are known to spit out](https://www.404media.co/these-are-the-worst-chatgpt-flyers-youve-sent-us/) for marketing imagery.\n\n# Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI\n\nThis new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.\n\nThis new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.\n\n“While AI image generation has been a huge hit for personal use, it’s been a different story for business,” Google said in its announcement blog. “Teams have struggled to create professional-grade images for marketing campaigns, customer presentations, and product storytelling, facing inconsistent results, endless trial-and-error prompting, and cumbersome workflows across multiple apps.”\n\nGoogle Pics is launching as both a standalone Workspace app, and as an integration for Google Docs and Slides, with plans to roll out to Drive “in the coming weeks.” For the integrations, Google says users can select an image in their document or slideshow to edit it with “Pics’ full suite of precision AI tools.”\n\nThose Pics tools allow users to generate images from scratch or select and edit individual objects within an image using descriptive prompts, which includes changing, reformatting, and translating text. Google Pics also lets users upscale images to 2K or 4K resolutions, quickly crop images into formats for web, social media, print, or digital, and collaborate on designs by sharing them with friends and teammates.\n\nSimilar features and AI tools are provided by dedicated creative platforms like Canva and Adobe Express. Given Google suggests that Pics can be used to design posters, flyers, and social media posts — alongside saying it can keep users from “feeling like you need to be a graphic designer to deliver a great image” — Google is likely hoping that Pics will prevent Workspace users from having to use third-party services for basic creative work.\n\nAfter [launching for testers](/tech/933026/google-pics-app-workspace-ai-images-io-2026) following Google I/O in May, Google Pics is now starting to roll out for Workspace users on Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus plans, Google AI Pro and Ultra personal plans, and the Google AI Pro for Education plan.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator", "published_at": "2026-09-01 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 16:22:00.740431+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Google Workspace", "Gemini", "Nano Banana", "Google Docs", "Google Slides", "Google Drive", "Canva"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-pics-is-like-canva-but-with-even-more-ai.jsonld"}}