On 1 September Google announced Pics - an image creation and editing tool rolling out over the coming weeks to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers. It works on its own and inside Docs and Slides, with Drive coming later.
- Built on the Nano Banana image model.
- It isolates an object and changes it without touching the rest; it edits and translates text inside the image without changing the font.
- The Docs and Slides integration starts right away, Drive in the coming weeks.
Lettering on a poster. You want it in another language, in the same font, in the same place, without touching the background.
Until now that meant a professional editor and someone who knows how to use it. According to Google, Pics does it from a prompt.
Anyone who has fixed someone else's presentation the night before a meeting can see where the real change is. Not in generation. The change is that editing moves to where the office sits all day: in the document and the slide.
And here comes the question of taste. When anyone in the office can swap the background of a product shot with one sentence, presentations will get glossier and more alike. The tool does not ask whether it should.
Cyrillic is the first thing we will check when Pics reaches us. The announcement does not say a word about it.