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Associated Press
7 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Edimakor V4.0.1 Revolutionizes Digital Creation with Powerful AI Image and Video Generation Tools
SHENZHEN, China, June 25, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Edimakor, leading creative software brand under HitPaw, released Edimakor V4.0.1 for public deployment. The new version marks a major breakthrough in the field of digital content creation. The software introduces creation of powerful AI-generated image and video, and artists and creators are now capable of generating extremely detailed and accurate visual content at extraordinary speed. Edimakor V4.0.1 streamlines professional-grade visual content creation to a simpler and more accessible task through a significant reduction in effort. TEXT-TO-IMAGE: TURN WORDS INTO STUNNING VISUALS With enhanced Text-to-Image feature, users can now make customized images within few clicks. Just write a description prompt, select one of 24 unique styles, select your desired resolution (Standard or 2K HD), choose one of seven available aspect ratios, and generate up to four images at a time. This tool is more than a novelty—it's built for quality. It delivers realistic portraits, supports precise text rendering (including font size, weight, and type), and produces high-resolution outputs ready for professional use. REFERENCE-BASED IMAGE GENERATION: AI THAT UNDERSTANDS CONTEXT Edimakor V4.0.1 also introduces a robust Reference-Based Image Generation feature. By uploading a reference image, the user can command the AI to generate new images that reflect significant characteristics that are present in the original. Whether you are working towards smart reference adaptation or character trait preservation, the system makes sure that there is consistency in appearance, expressions, and facial details. This is perfect for comic artists, animators, and brand storytellers who need visual continuity. IMAGE STYLIZATION: REDEFINE YOUR ART WITH AI Want to create a new artistic look for your images? Edimakor's Image Stylization lets you upload your image, choose one of 24 visual styles, and make up to four stylized versions in a matter of seconds. Ideal for posters, thumbnails, digital paintings, and striking social media updates. AI VIDEO GENERATOR: A UNIFIED AIGC EXPERIENCE A major highlight of V4.0.1 is the integration of AIGC into Edimakor's AI Video Generator (AIVG), creating a single, unified system for video creation. As users shift away from traditional storyboard-based editing tools, Edimakor adapts to market trends by offering Sora-style video generation — where AI helps build video scenes intelligently based on prompts and creative direction. New upgrades include: This makes AI-powered video creation more versatile, efficient, and budget-friendly… EDIMAKOR: EMPOWERING CREATORS WORLDWIDE With Edimakor V4.0.1, HitPaw continuously demonstrates its commitment to smarter, faster, and more intuitive digital creation. From image to video, from text prompt to incredible output, Edimakor is a reliable assistant to creators in all industries. Whether you're crafting content for fun, for business, or for storytelling — Edimakor puts powerful tools at your fingertips without the steep learning curve. MORE INFORMATION: Official website: X/Twitter: YouTube: Instagram: NEWS SOURCE: HitPaw Edimakor Keywords: Photography and Videography, HitPaw Edimakor, AI video, AI image generation, text fo video, prompting, editing, app, software, tools, technology, solutions, SHENZHEN, China This press release was issued on behalf of the news source (HitPaw Edimakor) who is solely responsibile for its accuracy, by Send2Press® Newswire. Information is believed accurate but not guaranteed. Story ID: S2P127197 APNF0325A To view the original version, visit: © 2025 Send2Press® Newswire, a press release distribution service, Calif., USA. RIGHTS GRANTED FOR REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY ANY LEGITIMATE MEDIA OUTLET - SUCH AS NEWSPAPER, BROADCAST OR TRADE PERIODICAL. MAY NOT BE USED ON ANY NON-MEDIA WEBSITE PROMOTING PR OR MARKETING SERVICES OR CONTENT DEVELOPMENT. Disclaimer: This press release content was not created by nor issued by the Associated Press (AP). Content below is unrelated to this news story.
CNET
25-06-2025
- Business
- CNET
Gemini Free Review: The Best Free AI Chatbot I've Used So Far
CNET's expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 8.5 / 10 SCORE Gemini Free Review Pros Free Higher token limit than ChatGPT Free Faster image generation Largely accurate Can upload and examine large documents Cons Randomly hits token limit Illogical, frustrating image generation Image analysis is inaccurate Long documents can't be pasted directly Gemini Free Review 8.5/10 CNET Score Google Gemini has come a long way. From its former life as Bard, where its hallucinating inaccuracies sent Google's stock price tumbling, to a rebrand as Gemini, where its hallucinating inaccuracies sent Google's stock price tumbling. After two years in the oven, it finally seems Google has got things right. The free version of Gemini, which runs on the 2.5 Flash model, is a strong product. It's fast at answering questions and gets facts correct. In Gemini's case, I found that it had a higher rate limit when compared to the free version of ChatGPT, so I could use it more often and spend less time waiting. In one test, I could generate multiple images on Gemini, whereas on ChatGPT Free, one image would throw me over my limit. In our testing, ChatGPT's image generator was the slowest one CNET tested. Image generation was also much faster than ChatGPT Free. At the same time, I'd sometimes hit my token limit on Gemini free after just asking my first question of the day. For casual AI users, Gemini 2.5 Flash is more than enough. It gives users plenty of access to a competent AI model without making it feel they're constantly at the edge of hitting their limit. Still, the model isn't perfect and can make mistakes, especially on the imaging side of things. Despite this, for general use cases, the free version of Gemini can take over your Google searches. How CNET reviews AI models I took a different approach to reviewing AI chatbots this year. As AI models have improved, simpler queries aren't stressing the models anymore. These models are also connected to the internet, which helps with their accuracy. Instead, I took a more experiential approach. AI chatbots are everything machines. The way I use an AI chatbot, as a writer and a journalist, will differ from a coder, a lawyer and an artist. Thankfully, since journalists are generalists, I do feel my usage will cross apply to a wide range of users. That does mean we won't be asking the exact same questions to all the AI models we use and simply comparing answers. How accurate is Gemini Free? Compared to past iterations of Gemini, Gemini Free, which is running on the newly updated 2.5 Flash model, is largely very accurate. This is not only because Gemini has an open connection to the internet to cross-reference information, but also because 2.5 Flash is a "thinking" model. What this means is that the model isn't simply working as "autocomplete on steroids." It's trying to follow a set of rules and rationales before giving an output. Of course, there's plenty of debate as to whether thinking or reasoning models are actually doing either, or, if in reality, it's nothing more than increased mathematical computation to give sentence generation greater accuracy. Regardless, with Gemini 2.5 Flash, you can actually see how the model is thinking, a feature pulled from China's DeepSeek R1, which hit the internet late last year. As a new Nintendo Switch owner, I'm excited to see which games come to the console. Rumors are surfacing that Stellar Blade, previously a PS5 exclusive (with a recent PC release) would be coming to Switch 2. Given that it's a technically demanding game, I was curious how it would run on Nintendo's new handheld. Gemini 2.5 Flash did a great job giving me a sense of how Stellar Blade might perform. It broke down how well Unreal Engine 4 titles ran on the original Switch and cross-applied how it might run on a more powerful Switch 2. It found that most likely, in docked mode, a theoretical Stellar Blade port would run at 1080p with a consistent 30 FPS with the use of AI upscaling called DLSS. While I'm not a hardware expert, this conclusion seems in line with other Switch 2 ports, like Cyberpunk 2077. I've also been researching whether it's smart or economical to do Turo in New York City. Turo is a car rental service in which individuals can rent out their cars as a way to earn money. Think of it like Airbnb but for your car. New York can be a difficult market, given parking constraints, street rules and other costs of ownership. Gemini 2.5 Flash did a fantastic job breaking down why renting out a manual transmission Toyota GR86 could have advantages on Turo as a more enthusiast vehicle but would also run into issues of it being too niche for most drivers. Gemini also pointed out specific engine issues with the 2022 model, which, albeit rare, is something to consider. It then broke down the math and what types of revenues and profits I might be looking at. It gave me low, medium and high estimates. It helped me conclude that renting out a manual transmission Toyota GR86 might be more trouble than it's worth. I assume Gemini was able to pull from data on both dedicated forums and Reddit. (Google signed a $60 million licensing deal with Reddit last year.) Gemini can pull from YouTube, Google Maps and a range of other Google-owned products. This gives Gemini an advantage over other AI chatbots. For example, if you want to know what ingredients a restaurant uses in its burritos, Gemini is able to cross-reference Google Maps reviews to help find an answer. ChatGPT, for example, has to search through Yelp and other resources to find that answer. Rate limits are both rare and random Google says the newly updated Gemini 2.5 Flash models have a 1-million token context window. This far surpasses what even the paid version of the 128,000 tokens ChatGPT's GPT-4o model offers. Granted, ChatGPT's flagship GPT-4.1 model has a 1-million token context window. I didn't encounter many restrictions when using Gemini 2.5 Flash. I could continue asking questions and have it generate multiple images without it ever limiting me. Randomly, however, I'd be hit with a limit, even if it was my first question of the day. When that happened, I had to wait a few hours for it to reset. I'm not sure how Google is measuring usage. Is it based on how much you use it in an hour or does it accumulate over days? The latter certainly wouldn't make sense. . Given that Google says Gemini has a 1-million token context window, I was surprised when I couldn't paste in the transcript from a two-hour meeting for summarization. Weirdly, I could only paste a quarter of it. When I asked Gemini why I couldn't paste more, it was adamant that I could, confident that its large context window could handle whatever I could throw at it. I tried again; same result. It was only after I had uploaded a .txt file that it was able to read the entire meeting and summarize it for me. When I asked Gemini why, it said that it's possible Google put a character limit on direct-text inputs to prevent browser slowdown. I didn't run into this problem with the paid version of Gemini. While I didn't test its coding capabilities, Google says Gemini Code Assist gives free users 180,000 completions per month, which, according to the company, would mean users would have to code for 14 hours a day, every day, before hitting their limit. Google is strangely behind on shopping when compared to ChatGPT Google makes its money from online ads, which account for 78% of its 2024 revenue. Google searches aren't just filled with ads nowadays, but product carousels and sponsored product posts to the point that, in my opinion, they can be obnoxious. Still, the expectation is that Google's AI chatbot would also be a shopping powerhouse, right? For shopping, Gemini 2.5 Flash lags far behind ChatGPT. Earlier this year, OpenAI issued an update for all ChatGPT users to make shopping a dynamic experience within the chatbot, with links to products along with corresponding images. I found ChatGPT Free's shopping experience to be rather good, despite occasional linking hiccups. OpenAI says it isn't monetizing shopping recommendations. Shopping on Gemini, however, is a lackluster experience. Sure, for product research, Gemini 2.5 Flash can pull up the necessary bits of information and cross-compare products. But it doesn't link to products unless asked. And it won't pull in images like a Google Search would, either. When shopping for webcams to connect to my Nintendo Switch 2 for Mario Kart World gaming, Gemini did a solid job of recommending products and was even able to cross-reference a Reddit post I linked to. Oddly, when asking Gemini 2.5 Flash for webcam recommendations for my Nintendo Switch 2, I ran into an error that simply said, "something went wrong." There was no explanation. I waited a bit, but ultimately had to start a new chat for things to start working again. An error pop-up in Google Gemini Free Imad Khan/CNET Image generation with Gemini Free: You get what you pay for Gemini 2.5 Flash is incredibly generous with image generation. Unfortunately, getting it to generate the correct image is a frustrating process. I wanted Gemini to create a nostalgic-feeling image of a boy playing a Game Boy in the back of his parents' car during a nighttime road trip. While Gemini was able to make the image, the world logic was completely off. At first, Gemini 2.5 Flash generated an image of a sad-looking boy. Gemini Free incorrectly renders an image. Imad Khan/CNET When I called out Gemini saying this was not at all what I was looking for, it course-corrected but still didn't do a great job. One subsequent try was certainly better, but it didn't have the color palette I was looking for. Also, the boy was in the front seat of the car. Not really safe. In another iteration, the car in the background was driving away, which doesn't match correct world logic. A bizarre image generated by Gemini Free. Imad Khan/CNET After much back-and-forth, Gemini would continually generate images that were wrong and looked bizarrely off. For instance, the boy is now in the front seat with his parents, but facing toward the back. I eventually gave up. While Gemini 2.5 Flash is fast and generous with its image generation, it's far from ideal. Google still needs to work on fixing the internal logic within Gemini. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talked about "world models" at Google I/O earlier this year, where these models did a much better job of understanding and representing lifelike physics. Hopefully, this tech trickles down to the free version of Gemini soon. Gemini Free gives more than ChatGPT Free Google deserves credit for how much it has improved on Gemini this past year. The AI chatbot is far more accurate and provides a feature-rich experience. The fact that much of this is being given away for free is also impressive. It definitely puts the other AI chatbots on notice. It shows how the power of Google can be difficult to compete against, especially when the company is trying to establish Gemini as people's go-to AI chatbot. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can compete by delivering higher quality and more accurate information. Of course, this will require more investment, innovation and server costs, which might be harder for companies not as rich as Google. The free version of Claude, for example, runs on Sonnet 4, which is a "hybrid reasoning model" and uses a multi-tier approach to getting the best out of an AI. Still, it's impressive that Google is giving everyone access to a "thinking" model for zero dollars. Considering DeepSeek R1 did the same earlier this year, this might have forced Google's hand. Regardless, this newly improved Gemini is a step in the right direction.
Android Authority
22-06-2025
- Android Authority
I tested Gemini's latest image generator and here are the results
Back in November, I tested the image generation capabilities within Google's Gemini, which was powered by the Imagen 3 model. While I liked it, I ran into its limitations pretty quickly. Google recently rolled out its successor — Imagen 4 — and I've been putting it through its paces over the last couple of weeks. I think the new version is definitely an improvement, as some of the issues I had with Imagen 3 are now thankfully gone. But some frustrations still remain, meaning the new version isn't quite as good as I'd like. How often do you create images with AI? 0 votes It's a daily thing for me. NaN % Maybe once per week. NaN % A few times per month. NaN % Never. NaN % So, what has improved? The quality of the images produced has generally improved, though the improvement isn't massive. Imagen 3 was already generally good at creating images of people, animals, and scenery, but the new version consistently produces sharper, more detailed images. When it comes to generating images of people — which is only possible with Gemini Advanced — I had persistent issues with Imagen 3 where it would create cartoonish-looking photos, even when I wasn't asking for that specific style. Prompting it to change the image to something more realistic was often a losing battle. I haven't experienced any of that with Imagen 4. All the images of people it generates look very professional — perhaps a bit too much, which is something we'll touch on later. One of my biggest frustrations with the older model was the limited control over aspect ratios. I often felt stuck with 1:1 square images, which severely limited their use case. I couldn't use them for online publications, and printing them for a standard photo frame was out of the question. While Imagen 4 still defaults to a 1:1 ratio, I can now simply prompt it to use a different one, like 16:9, 9:16, or 4:3. This is the feature I've been waiting for, as it makes the images created far more versatile and usable. Imagen 4 also works a lot more smoothly. While I haven't found it to be noticeably faster — although a faster model is reportedly in the works — there are far fewer errors. With the previous version, Gemini would sometimes show an error message, saying it couldn't produce an image for an unknown reason. I have received none of those with Imagen 4. It just works. Still looks a bit too retouched While Imagen 4 produces better images, is more reliable, and allows for different aspect ratios, some of the issues I encountered when testing its predecessor are still present. My main problem is that the images often aren't as realistic as I'd like, especially when creating close-ups of people and animals. Images tend to come out quite saturated, and many feature a prominent bokeh effect that professionally blurs the background. They all look like they were taken by a photographer with 15 years of experience instead of by me, just pointing a camera at my cat and pressing the shutter. Sure, they look nice, but a 'casual mode' would be a fantastic addition — something more realistic, where the lighting isn't perfect and the subject isn't posing like a model. I prompted Gemini to make an image more realistic by removing the bokeh effect and generally making it less perfect. The AI did try, but after prompting it three or four times on the same image, it seemed to reach its limit and said it couldn't do any better. Each new image it produced was a bit more casual, but it was still quite polished, clearly hinting that it was AI-generated. You can see that in the images above, going from left to right. The first one includes a strong bokeh effect, and the man has very clear skin, while the other two progress to the man looking older and older, as well as more tired. He even started balding a bit in the last image. It's not what I really meant when prompting Gemini to make the image more realistic, although it does come out more casual. Imagen 4 does a much better job with random images like landscapes and city skylines. These images, taken from afar, don't include as many close-up details, so they look more genuine. Still, it can be a hit or miss. An image of the Sydney Opera House looks great, although the saturation is bumped up quite a bit — the grass is extra green, and the water is a picture-perfect blue. But when I asked for a picture of the Grand Canyon, it came out looking completely artificial and wouldn't fool anyone into thinking it was a real photo. It did perform better after a few retries, though. Editing is better, but not quite there One of my gripes with the previous version was its clumsy editing. When asked to change something minor — like the color of a hat — the AI would do it, but it would also generate a brand new, completely different image. The ideal scenario would be to create an image and then be allowed to edit every detail precisely, such as changing a piece of clothing, adding a specific item, or altering the weather conditions while leaving everything else exactly as is. Imagen 4 is better in this regard, but not by much. When I prompted it to change the color of a jacket to blue, it created a new image. However, by specifically asking it to keep all other details the same, it managed to maintain a lot of the scenery and subject from the original. That's what happened in the examples above. The woman in the third image was the same, and she appeared to be in a similar room, but her pose and the camera angle were different, making it more of a re-shoot than an edit. Here's another example of a cat eating a popsicle. I prompted Gemini to change the color of the popsicle, and it did, and it kept a lot of the details. The cat's the same, and so is most of the background. But the cat's ears are now sticking out, and the hat is a bit different. Still, a good try. Despite its shortcomings, Imagen 4 is a great tool Even with its issues and a long wishlist of missing functionality, Imagen 4 is still among the best AI image generators available. Most of the problems I've mentioned are also present in other AI image-generation software, so it's not as if Gemini is behind the competition. It seems there are significant technical hurdles that need to be overcome before these types of tools can reach the next level of precision and realism. Other limitations are still in place, such as the inability to create images of famous people or generate content that violates Google's safety guidelines. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is a matter of opinion. For users seeking fewer restrictions, there are alternatives like Grok. Have you tried out the latest image generation in Gemini? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Adobe brings AI-image generation app to phones, adds partners
(Corrects paragraphs 2-4 to reflect that new partner models are not yet available on the Firefly mobile app) By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Adobe Inc. released its first dedicated artificial intelligence smartphone app on Tuesday that includes AI models from the company and partner firms, in a bid to tap into a growing trend of sharing AI images and videos over social media. The new Firefly mobile app packages Adobe's own AI model together with models from OpenAI and Google and is available on iOS and Android phones. In addition, Adobe is integrating models from new partner firms Ideogram, Luma AI, Pika and Runway, which can be accessed in Firefly Boards, a product that is part of the Firefly web app. Generating images that can easily be shared on social media has become a key driver of AI interest, with OpenAI's Ghibli-style AI images driving record traffic to the ChatGPT creator. Adobe's mobile service will offer subscribers unlimited basic image generation from Adobe models, while it will charge extra for access to the company's premium models and those from its partners. The subscription cost will be the same as for the web versions of Firefly, which start at $10 per month. The San Jose, California-based company had earlier released AI tools along with the mobile app version of its popular image-editing program Photoshop. Adobe has not disclosed how much it pays the partner models on the Firefly app. The company had promised users that its AI model is trained only on material that it has a legal right to use, with Adobe offering protection against copyright claims. Ely Greenfield, Adobe's chief technology officer for digital media, said Adobe's approach has also gained some resonance among consumers. "Even for many of our individual customers, that promise of the commercial safety and the story about how Firefly is trained continues to be a really important differentiator," Greenfield said. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
CNET
17-06-2025
- CNET
You Can Now Generate ChatGPT Images by Texting a 1-800 Number on WhatsApp
ChatGPT's image generator tool now takes requests at 1-800-CHATGPT. The feature, announced by OpenAI on Monday in an X post, allows anyone with a WhatsApp account to text that phone number and make a request for an AI-generated image using a plain-language prompt. In CNET's test, ChatGPT's 1-800 hotline was able to create an old-school corded telephone image with the ChatGPT logo on it in about two minutes. The 1-800 number also accepts other ChatGPT requests that aren't for images. If you don't have a ChatGPT account linked to your WhatsApp, you're limited to one image request per day. In April, ChatGPT announced it was opening up its image-generation feature to everyone, which created a surge of traffic for the AI tool. The service competes with image generators from other companies including Meta and Google.
