{"id":339138,"date":"2025-12-11T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339138\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:51:13","slug":"google-photos-remix-wide-rollout-adds-more-style-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339138\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos Remix wide rollout adds more style choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google-photos-remix-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After launching the \u201cRemix\u201d tool in August in a server-side update, Google Photos is bringing the image-to-cartoon feature to more users in a much wider rollout.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/08\/13\/google-photos-remix-feature-how-to-use\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remix tool in Google Photos<\/a> was announced as the company announced several AI generation tools for the gallery app. The bundle of features included Photos\u2019 photo-to-video tool and a new \u201cCreate\u201d tab.<\/p>\n<p>Remix allows users to generate cartoon versions of the photos they take and store in Google Photos. The results don\u2019t differ too much from the generated images in Gemini using a \u201creimagine\u201d prompt of something similar. The difference here is in user flow, as generating a stylized photo is easier from the default gallery app. On top of that, the function is free for users to play around with.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/thread\/393831530\/remix-is-rolling-out-to-more-countries?hl=en&amp;sjid=2101734349349527025-NA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>, Remix is rolling out to 13 regions in a substantial expansion:<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Argentina<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>Brazil<\/p>\n<p>Colombia<\/p>\n<p>Egypt<\/p>\n<p>India<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Japan<\/p>\n<p>Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>Philippines<\/p>\n<p>Turkey<\/p>\n<p>United States<\/p>\n<p>In those countries, users can access a wider catalog of remix styles, expanded to 13 from the 4 that the feature launched with a few months ago. While the tool was limited to a certain number of users previously, it appears the update pushes the tool to all users in these countries.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those styles include 8-bit, watercolor, stickers, and odd ones like enamel pins. The feature doesn\u2019t appear to name each style individually, but some are obviously copying a known art style. The new choice list is a pretty big jump from the limited options previously available.<\/p>\n<p>Google Photos should be showing the Remix feature in the above regions, as Google did not indicate a time frame for the expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_669_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_276_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pesEfH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-696322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765493473_385_750-x-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After launching the \u201cRemix\u201d tool in August in a server-side update, Google Photos is bringing the image-to-cartoon feature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-339138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}