Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video

Google is giving Photos users more control over the app’s generative AI photo-to-video feature. Google Photos now supports text prompts for video generation, according to the update announcement on Monday, allowing users to describe the specific movement, style, or effect they want to see when bringing still images to life.

Text prompts join the existing “Subtle Movement” and “I’m feeling lucky” options that are already available for Google Photos’ image-to-video tool — neither of which allowed users to enter their own descriptions to guide the results. Google says Photos will provide prompt suggestions “for instant video inspiration,” and that text prompts can be edited to fine-tune the resulting video generations.

The new text prompt feature is restricted to users who are 18 or older. This age restriction only applies to Google’s image-to-video tool in Photos, however — text prompts have been available for the same capabilities in Gemini for some time, and…