Google has begun rolling out built‑in image‑editing tools for its Gemini app, giving users the power to adjust both AI‑generated pictures and photos they upload from their phone or computer. With a simple prompt you can swap backgrounds, add or remove objects, or even ask what you’d look like sporting a completely different hair colour.

These new, step‑by‑step controls make the creative process conversational: text and images appear in the same chat thread, so you can keep refining results without jumping between apps. Imagine drafting a bedtime story about dragons while Gemini supplies custom illustrations on the fly—or mocking up product photos in minutes.

Every image that Gemini creates or edits carries Google’s invisible SynthID watermark, and the company says it’s also experimenting with adding a visible badge to clearly signal AI involvement. The feature starts rolling out today (30 April 2025) and will reach users in more than 45 languages and most countries over the coming weeks, though it isn’t yet available to Google Workspace or Education accounts.

Google first previewed native AI image editing for developers in AI Studio earlier this year; positive feedback from that experiment spurred today’s wider release inside the consumer Gemini app.