Pixel Studio comes free on your Google Pixel 9 smartphone. You can use it to generate images from prompts, which are natural language descriptions of what you want to see, you're therefore limited mainly by your imagination, and the restrictions of the software, which currently include no images involving humans.

Once you learn how to use it, and where all the features are hidden, Pixel Studio becomes an incredibly powerful tool for everything from just having a laugh with your friends by making funny images to making beautiful works of art.

How to generate AI images with Pixel Studio

FAQS

Why can't I generate people?

Currently, Pixel Studio can’t generate images of humans – all image prompts you send it to do with people end up coming back with a, “the ability to create human images is coming in the future”, message. It’s frustrating, but according to Google, it is working on the ability to do it, but we’re not quite there yet.

So, for example, “a man standing at the station in the rain in winter”, won’t generate an image, but change the “man” to “dog” and it will work fine. I’ve tried a few ways to get around this, by calling the man a “figure” or a “crowd”, but you get the same results. It finds zombies too human-like to draw too, however, I have had some success with a “samurai robot”, while obviously a robot, it is at least human-shaped.

This restriction can be equally frustrating because sometimes Pixel Studio misinterprets your prompt and thinks you want an image that contains a human when you don’t. In those situations, you need to reword the prompt and try again.

What are the restrictions?

As well as the restriction on generating or removing people, there is also Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, which governs everything created with Pixel Studio, to be aware of. You can just think of this as applying some common sense to the type of images you want to create, but occasionally an image you prompt may get blocked by these filters by mistake. In that case, reword the prompt and try again.

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