Google Pics brings prompt-based design to Workspace

A poster begins with a sentence, not a blank page. Google Pics, Google’s new image creation and editing tool, is rolling into Workspace Docs and Slides, giving business users a way to make everyday visuals by prompting instead of designing them from scratch.

The tool is aimed at familiar jobs: posters, social-media posts, illustrations and other workplace images. It is powered by Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model and will roll out over the coming weeks to most Workspace customers, as well as subscribers to Google AI Pro or Ultra.

Google Pics is not simply a new canvas. Users can ask for an image, create several generations and choose the version they prefer. They can also isolate and transform objects, modify or translate text inside an image, and edit collaboratively with other people.

That places it beside Canva and Adobe Express, but with a different workflow. Canva lets artists, illustrators and photographers publish templates, graphics, photos and other work in a marketplace where they earn royalties. Adobe Express is commonly used to design work from scratch. Google Pics instead turns a prompt into the starting point, using an AI model trained on artists’ work.

Concretely, the change is where the tool is integrated: Google Pics starts in Docs and Slides before coming to Google Drive. The first integration rolls out in Docs and Slides today, while Google says Drive will receive the software later. The rollout is staged, so access will not arrive for every eligible user at once.