Google launched Android 14 alongside the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional, and there are many AI goodies available between the 2. For instance, the Pixel 8’s Best Take feature helps you enhance your group images by swapping folks’s faces to get the perfect shot potential. The Pixel’s Name Display characteristic additionally received a lift from AI, which ought to result in extra correct outcomes when analyzing an incoming name.
Whereas options like Finest Take and Magic Editor get the entire consideration for placing automated Photoshop-like options at your fingertips, Android 14’s new AI wallpaper generator (at present restricted to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro) is a characteristic that is certain to win over many customers, myself included.
I have been messing round with the brand new AI wallpaper generator on the Pixel 8 Professional for a few weeks now, and it is a ton of enjoyable. Beneath, I am going to present you how you can use it,
How one can use Android 14’s new AI wallpaper generator
In the event you’ve ever used any of the AI picture generator instruments, be it Dall-E 2, Bing or Stable Diffusion, you already know the way spectacular (and hilarious) the outcomes may be. You give the device a few concepts, and some seconds later, you get utterly computer-generated images you may both use or discard.
The AI wallpaper device on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional works equally, however as a substitute of beginning with a totally clean immediate, you are requested to choose from a listing of classes. Every class then has a mad lib-like sentence that you have to fill in utilizing some predefined choices. When you’re carried out, you are offered with a number of completely different wallpaper choices to choose from.
When you’ve got a Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Professional, here is how one can strive the characteristic proper now. For individuals who do not have a Pixel 8 or 8 Professional, hopefully, Google will increase the characteristic to different Android 14 telephones within the close to future.
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To get began, long-press on any clean area on your house display and choose Wallpaper & model. Subsequent, choose Extra wallpapers below the row of thumbnails.
On the high of the display, you will see two thumbnails. One is labeled AI wallpaper, the opposite Emoji Workshop. The latter walks you thru making a customized wallpaper along with your favourite emoji. You possibly can learn more about that process here.
Faucet the AI wallpaper button, then scroll by means of the assorted themes to pick out a place to begin. At the moment, there are 12 complete themes out there. Do not stress an excessive amount of about which theme you choose as you take a look at the characteristic out; you may make as many AI wallpapers as you need.
After deciding on a theme, you will be proven the inventory wallpaper for that theme, with a sentence on the backside of the display with as much as three completely different phrases underlined. Every theme has a special sentence, however the gist of it lets you decide from completely different gadgets and colours.
If you wish to surrender all management, you may all the time faucet on the Encourage Me button on the backside of the display and let the telephone make the choices for you. Generally, it will get it proper; different
instances… not a lot.
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Faucet on every phrase to deliver up a collection of choices. Utilizing Terrain for example, the immediate sentence of “Surreal mountains in shades of black” consists of three completely different phrases I picked and fed to the AI. Once I faucet on Surreal, it offers two choices: Surreal or Reasonable. I am going with Surreal this time. Subsequent, I want to pick out the kind of terrain by tapping on the second underlined phrase within the sentence to deliver up a complete of 17 various kinds of terrain to choose from. The choices embody terrain like glaciers, deserts, volcanoes or waterfalls. I picked mountains.
Lastly, I want to choose a coloration. I’ll go along with black this time round. When you’re proud of the choices you chose for the immediate, faucet the large Create Wallpaper button and wait whereas your telephone takes care of the remaining.
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Just a few seconds later, you will be offered with completely different wallpapers that had been created primarily based in your enter. Swipe in your telephone’s display to change between the completely different choices.
If you discover one you wish to use, faucet on the checkmark within the top-right nook of the display to preview it as your lock and residential display wallpaper. In the event you’re proud of it, choose the Set wallpaper button on the high of the display.
How one can discover your beforehand made AI wallpapers
One huge grievance I’ve in regards to the AI wallpaper device is that you may’t save the picture to your Images app. You possibly can solely use it as a wallpaper. Not solely does this make sharing them very troublesome, nevertheless it means you may’t shortly entry them out of your gallery if you wish to swap again to a earlier wallpaper.
To entry your previous AI wallpaper creations, you will must go to the AI wallpaper device as we did within the final part, however as a substitute of choosing a theme, you will see a set of your earlier creations below a piece labeled Your AI wallpapers.
Moreover, while you view a wallpaper you have made and used, an edit possibility allows you to tweak it if you choose the pencil icon.
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