Your Photos, Kept as They Are

On 15 September someone gave the assistant four photos of a small child and asked for a collage. It drew four strangers. The assistant had reached for the tool that makes new pictures, because the editing tool could only work on one photo at a time. In October we closed the gap behind that answer, and the result is a set of features that start from the photos you already have.

A collage is composed, not generated

A collage is now built from your actual photos: two to nine of them, placed on a layout, with an optional title, a shape, a fit and a background colour. No AI model draws anything, so faces, clothes and backgrounds stay exactly as they were. You can make one yourself on the new Collage tab of the image studio, on the web and on the phone, or ask for one in a chat or on a voice call.

When you do want an AI picture that combines several photos, the request now goes only to models that accept every photo you sent, and models that take several reference photos now get all of them.

A video from your photos

In a chat or on a voice call, you can ask for a slideshow video of the photos you shared. The assistant shows the price first and starts only when you agree. The video is made in the background, and when it is ready it appears in the same chat. If the chat is open, it shows up without a reload, and you get one notification saying your video is ready.

Words in videos, too

The same week, the speech-to-text page learned to take a video. Pick one, choose a language and see the price; ToRun takes the sound, transcribes it, translates it and saves the transcript, the translation and two subtitle files in your library. Speech that is already in the language you chose is neither translated nor charged.

Why it matters

Most of what people want to do with a photo is about the people in it. A tool that replaces them with lookalikes is worse than no tool, however good the lookalikes are. So the assistant is now told which tools keep faces and which may change them, and a request that leans on your own photos is no longer sent to a tool that draws new ones.

The Collage tab is in the image studio today, and the slideshow is one sentence away in any chat.