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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by oliwary »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #100
matsemann wrote: post #92

Half the time I ask Gemini to generate some image it claims it doesn't have the capability. And in general I've felt it's so hard to actually use the features Google announce? Like, a third of them is in one product, some in another which I can't use, and no idea what or where I should pay to get access. So confusing.

Yeah, in fact the website says "Try it in Gemini" and I'm not sure if I'm already trying it or not - if I choose Gemini 2.5 Flash in the regular Gemini UI, I'm using this?

Also very confused at this... It told me "I'm unable to create images of specific individuals in different settings." I wish it would at least say somewhere which model we are using at the moment.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by SirMaster »

bonoboTP wrote: post #107
kemyd wrote: post #103

I don't get the hype. Tested it with the same prompts I used with Midjourney, and the results are worse than in Midjourney a year ago. What am I missing?

The hype is about image editing, not pure text-to-image. Upload an input image, say what you want changed, get the output. That's the idea. Much better preservation of characters and objects.

Can it edit the photo at the original resolution?

Most of my photos these days are 48MP and I don't want to lose a ton of resolution just to edit them.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by johnfn »

I naively went onto Gemini in order to try to use the new model and had what I could only describe as the worst conversation I've had with an AI since GPT 3.5[1]. Is this really the model that's on top of the leaderboard right now? This feels about 500 ELO points worse than my typical conversation with GPT 5.

Edit: OK, OK, I actually got it to work, and yes, I admit the results are incredible[2]. I honestly have no idea what happened with Pro 2.5 the first time.

[1]: https://g.co/gemini/share/5767894ee3bc [2]: https://g.co/gemini/share/a48c00eb6089

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by notsylver »

Barbing wrote: post #87
notsylver wrote: post #61

I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

Hope it works well for you! In my eyes, one specific example they show (“Prompt: Restore photo”) deeply AI-ifies the woman’s face. Sure it’ll improve over time of course.

I tried a dozen or so images. For some it definitely failed (altering details, leaving damage behind, needing a second attempt to get a better result) but on others it did great. With a human in the loop approving the AI version or marking it for manual correction I think it would save a lot of time.

This is the first image I tried:

https://i.imgur.com/MXgthty.jpeg (before)

https://i.imgur.com/Y5lGcnx.png (after)

Sure, I could manually correct that quite easily and would do a better job, but that image is not important to us, it would just be nicer to have it than not.

I'll probably wait for the next version of this model before committing to doing it, but its exciting that we're almost there.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by crustaceansoup »

I tried to reproduce the fork/spaghetti example and the fashion bubble example, and neither looks anything like what they present. The outputs are very consistent, too. I am copying/pasting the images out of the advertisement page so they may be lower resolution than the original inputs, but otherwise I'm using the same prompts and getting a wildly different result.

It does look like I'm using the new model, though. I'm getting image editing results that are well beyond what the old stuff was capable of.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by byteknight »

johnfn wrote: post #143

I naively went onto Gemini in order to try to use the new model and had what I could only describe as the worst conversation I've had with an AI since GPT 3.5[1]. Is this really the model that's on top of the leaderboard right now? This feels about 500 ELO points worse than my typical conversation with GPT 5. Edit: OK, OK, I actually got it to work, and yes, I admit the results are incredible[2]. I honestly have no i…

Are you doing roleplay?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by reaperducer »

chadcmulligan wrote: post #129

This is technically impressive though I really wish they'd choose other professions to automate than graphic design.

AI is supposed to set us all free. Yet, so far all the tech companies have done is eliminate the jobs of the lowest-paid people (artists, writers, photographers, designers) and transfer that money to billionaires. Yay.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by GaggiX »

johnfn wrote: post #143

I naively went onto Gemini in order to try to use the new model and had what I could only describe as the worst conversation I've had with an AI since GPT 3.5[1]. Is this really the model that's on top of the leaderboard right now? This feels about 500 ELO points worse than my typical conversation with GPT 5. Edit: OK, OK, I actually got it to work, and yes, I admit the results are incredible[2]. I honestly have no i…

"Google AI Studio" and select the model

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by actionfromafar »

zwog wrote: post #85
notsylver wrote: post #61

I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

Do you happen to know some software to repair/improve video files? I'm in the process of digitalizing a couple of Video 2000 and VHS casettes of childhood memories of my mom who start suffering from dementia. I have a pretty streamlined setup for digitalizing the videos but I'd like to improve the quality a bit.

VHSdecode if you want a rabbit hole.
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