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TL;DR Gemini has been working on giving you the ability to mark up generated images to suggest edits.
Last time we looked at Google’s progress, Gemini only supported a basic markup interface.
That’s now getting much more fleshed out, including the presence of a text box to describe edits.
Late last year, Google started giving Gemini a very handy upgrade with support for marking up images, letting you direct the AI’s attention where you wanted it. More recently, we’ve been tracking the company’s progress at expanding that sort of markup support to also work with Gemini-created imagery (like Nano Banana content), letting you dial-in some very specific edits. Ahead of that arriving, we’re already spotting some possible tweaks to Google’s approach.
Last time we took a look at Google’s progress, we could tap that pencil icon to pull up some very basic markup tools:
That let us highlight specific areas (or add text, if you were so inclined), but that’s about it. And then after making those selections, we had to go back and explain the edit we wanted to Gemini.
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Poring over the changes present in Google’s version 17.10.54.sa.arm64 beta update to its Android app, we can see developers preparing a richer markup UI:
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