Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI

<figure> <img alt="A screenshot of Google Pics generating a poster design for a street fair." data-caption="Google wants Workspace users to edit and generate their business imagery with Pics. | Image: Google" data-portal-copyright="Image: Google" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/Google-Pics-rollout-hero.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Google wants Workspace users to edit and generate their business imagery with Pics. | Image: Google </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating "professional-grade" AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to give more granular control over prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing users to tap on specific objects or text, and describe what they want to change - features that may avoid the <a href="https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/">ugly results</a> that <a href="https://www.404media.co/these-are-the-worst-chatgpt-flyers-youve-sent-us/">chatbots are known to spit out</a> for marketing imagery.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"While AI image generation has been a huge hit for personal use, it's been a different story for bus …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>