On Friday, Apple announced the acquisition of Pixelmator, a news that has garnered widespread attention. As a company that develops several popular photo editing applications, this acquisition may bring new changes to the Apple platform. While some are skeptical about the deal, there are optimists who believe it could address a major issue users encounter while using their iPads—software inadequacy, especially when trying to use Adobe's Photoshop for i.

Tencent Zhi Ying has launched a new feature called 'AI Online Sensation Helper', aimed at simplifying the photo editing process and enhancing efficiency through artificial intelligence technology. This feature, using a cloud-based smart video creation tool, allows users to upload photos and have them automatically beautified and optimized by AI, including portrait beautification and background enhancement, to meet users' pursuit of trendiness and personalization.

After WeChat officially supported Live photos, Meitu's video editing app - Wink quickly became popular, achieving the third spot in the App Store in China. Wink meets the growing user demand for Live photo editing with its powerful AI video beautification feature, as well as the 'Convert to Live' and 'AI Animation' functions that allow one-click transformation of images and videos into Live photos. It's reported that Wink's 'Video Beautification' feature enables users to easily edit Live photos just like static images.

In August 2024, Baidu Cloud Drive launched a solution tailored for the photography industry, integrating storage backup, AI photo editing, and efficient delivery. The aim is to help photography studios improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance business growth. Through research conducted with hundreds of photography studios, Baidu Cloud Drive identified common issues such as management difficulties, low efficiency, and high costs, and developed this targeted solution.

The AI image processing technology "Diffree" has gained attention for its ability to seamlessly add new objects, like cushions and decorations, to images based on text descriptions. It is particularly useful in indoor design and advertising. Its core features include a "text-guided" function and a "text-to-image" (T2I) model, utilizing the Stable Diffusion diffusion model along with an additional mask prediction module for precise image editing w....

Recently, social media giant Meta has been embroiled in a controversy over its AI tagging. Several photographers have complained that Meta incorrectly tagged their real photographs with 'AI Generated,' raising questions about the accuracy of the company's AI recognition system.

Meitu officially launched its brand new AI photo editor - WHEE V2 version. This editor not only integrates various practical functions, but also incorporates AI technology, providing users with a one-stop processing experience from original images to edited pictures. The new version introduces AI drawing and AI image editing features, greatly enriching users' editing options and making the creative process more convenient and efficient. Whether it's partial modifications, image expansion, or AI synthesis and doodling, WHEE V2 can handle it all seamlessly.

["Microsoft has introduced a new feature called 'Generative Eraser', which uses artificial intelligence to remove objects or people from photos.","This feature is similar to the 'Magic Eraser' functionality found on Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones.","The new feature will be rolled out to Windows 11 and Windows 10 users, including Arm64 devices.","Currently, the feature is available to Windows Insider users and will gradually be released to all channels.","Microsoft has not clarified whether edited photos will carry metadata or watermarks."]