Google Pics Lets You Use AI to Edit Specific Parts of an Image
Google has introduced a new image-editing tool called Pics, designed to modify specific parts of an image without affecting the rest. Currently in testing, it will be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer. Pics allows users to move, remove, and resize objects easily, and it integrates with Google Workspace apps for collaborative editing.
- ▪Pics is a generative AI image-editing app that focuses on modifying specific portions of an image.
- ▪The tool will be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer and is currently rolling out to Trusted Testers.
- ▪Users can easily move, remove, and resize objects within an image, and it allows for text corrections without regenerating the entire image.
PCMag files mainly under tech. We currently carry 367 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | PCMag |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-io-pics-lets-you-use-ai-to-edit-specific-parts-of-an-image |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 26 18:45:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T19:10:02.947Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T19:10:02.947Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9YdyFXQuzDwF |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Are you in need of another generative AI image-editing app? At Google I/O, the company teased Pics, which specializes in modifying specific portions of an image without affecting the rest.Pics was built using Nano Banana, and it is currently rolling out to Trusted Testers. This summer, it will be generally available to all Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and in preview for Google Workspace business users.Google touts Pics as a tool that “takes the hassle out of complex image generation.” It comes with options to move, remove, and resize objects within an image. While options for the first two are available via a right-click on the element, resizing is even simpler. Just click the objects or humans and drag your mouse to increase or decrease their size.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at PCMag.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from PCMag
