{"id":178777,"date":"2025-09-24T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178777\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:14:08","slug":"mixboard-is-googles-mood-board-tool-that-could-be-useful-to-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178777\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixboard is Google’s Mood Board Tool That Could Be Useful to Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Photographers can create a mood board by typing in a prompt, adding their own photos, or generating AI images for inspiration and guidance. <\/p>\n

Conceptual and advertising photographers planning a shoot often turn to mood boards to help sculpt the aesthetic of their project; with that in mind Google Labs has released an intriguing new tool called Mixboard. <\/p>\n

Mixboard is an \u201cexperimental, AI-powered concepting board designed to help you explore, expand, and refine ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

In years gone by, photographers might cut out pictures from magazines or print out photos. Latterly, they might have turned to Pinterest or Canva to create a mood board.<\/p>\n

But new technology means new ways to create a mood board and Google\u2019s AI can help \u201cvisualize a vast array of possibilities, from home decor and event themes to new product ideas or your next DIY project with images and text.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Bringing a mood board to a set can be a handy reference point for photographers. Instead of improvising everything, they can glance at the board to recall key visual cues like pose references, lighting angles, and tones. <\/p>\n

Mood boards can be shared with clients, models, stylists, makeup artists, and art directors to make sure everyone is aligned. It\u2019s a fast way to show the vibe of the project, without relying on words alone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Like many generative AI apps, a project on Mixboard can be started via a text prompt and users can add their own photos or even use AI to generate an image.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdit your boards with natural language to do things like make small changes, combine images and more, with our new image editing model Nano Banana<\/a>,\u201d Google says. <\/p>\n

Ideas can be remixed and iterated on by using the buttons \u201cregenerate\u201d and \u201cmore like this.\u201d Mixboard can also put together a text document based on what\u2019s on the board, a potentially handy tool if the photographer or client is putting together a brief. <\/p>\n

Mixboard is available as a public beta in the U.S. It is still an early experiment. The Verge notes<\/a> that Mixboard is similar to Adobe\u2019s Firefly Boards and Figjam.<\/p>\n

To try it, head to labs.google\/mixboard<\/a>. There is also a Discord community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographers can create a mood board by typing in a prompt, adding their own photos, or generating AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[106204,228,226,227,106205,229,88,1637,168,106206,106207,106208,34598,14811],"class_list":{"0":"post-178777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-advertisingphotographer","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-conceptualphotographer","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-genai","16":"tag-google","17":"tag-googlelabs","18":"tag-mixboard","19":"tag-moodboard","20":"tag-photoproject","21":"tag-planning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}