Have you ever wished you could bring your favorite pictures to life? New AI-powered features in Google Photos will let you.

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Six-second clips

Earlier today, Google announced several new creative tools to "help bring your memories to life" -- including one that lets you take any picture saved in your gallery and turn it into a short video. You can choose to add "subtle movements" or pick "I'm feeling lucky" to animate your photo into a full six-second clip.

Google added a similar photo-to-video capability to the Gemini app earlier this month ( Senior Contributing Writer Tiernan Ray said it was "disconcerting how well it works"). 

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There are some big differences between this and the Gemini version, though. One is that this one runs on Google's older Veo 2 video model, while Gemini's runs on Veo 3; the other is that you don't get to type your own custom prompt in the Photos version.

The feature is rolling out on Android and iOS.

Remix photos

Also new is the ability to "remix" photos into new styles. With Remix, you can edit your photos into different looks like anime, comic, 3D animation, or sketch. With the tap of a button, you can give your photo a whole new feel that's ready to share on social.

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Google is calling both of these features experimental still and admits that some outputs probably won't be what you intended. To help improve things, you can use a thumbs up or thumbs down rating to give feedback after a creation.

With the rise in AI video and photo creation tools, Google says it understands these tools must be used responsibly. Not only are measures in place to prevent misuse, but any remixed photo will include a digital SynthID watermark that's invisible to the naked eye (the same thing Google does for photos edited with Reimagine). Videos generated by the new Photos feature will have a visual watermark.

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