Google Pics launches to create and edit images in Google Docs, Slides, and Drive

Today Google is starting to make Google Pics available. Google Pics is a new service that is not to be confused with Google Photos or Google Images. Google Pics is billed by Google as providing you with « a suite of fine-tuned editing capabilities that let you generate images and make precise edits rather than starting from scratch ».

Why this couldn’t just be a Gemini feature is unclear. It is also using Nano Banana, although Google doesn’t say which version. Pics is both a standalone product and integrated into Google Workspace apps, starting with Slides, Docs, and Drive, so it will…