Key takeaways

• Pixel 10 series adds new AI tools, including Camera Coach.
• It generates sample images to guide perfect composition.
• Camera Coach suggests tips to improve your photo shots.

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Whether you are trying to take content creation seriously, want photos to frame on the wall, or, like me, like to overshare on the internet, you likely want your photos to look as good as possible.However, this can sometimes be tricky, as many factors, such as angles, lighting, and zoom, impact the quality of your photo. Now, AI can help.

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On Wednesday, Google held its Made by Google event, where it unveiled its latest Pixel devices, including the Pixel 10 Series, Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Buds 2a, and a lot of new AI features. The best part: some of the new features have yet to be done by competitors, providing users with a helpful, original feature like the Camera Coach.

The new feature can level up your photo game (or that of those taking photos of you) with some helpful guidance that might just make you a better photographer in the long run. Keep reading below for a dive into the feature and my experience with it.

Camera Coach

The Camera Coach feature assists you with snapping the perfect shot by suggesting ways to correct your angle, lighting, modes, and more, depending on your goal for taking the picture. For example, if you point your camera at a subject, it will ask what type of photo you want to take (portrait, photo, etc.). Then it will give a series of steps you can click through, with suggestions like "Use Portrait mode" and "Frame for [insert subject name]."

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Beyond providing step-by-step instructions, Camera Coach will also generate a reference image of how you should frame your shot, which is especially helpful for visual learners. Beyond capturing better photos in the moment, the goal is for Camera Coach to teach users how to produce better images in the long run by learning foundational principles of photography.

My experience

I had the opportunity to demo the feature before the Made by Google event and was pleasantly surprised by the experience. In my first demo, the user tried to take a photo outside the window of a landscape shot of a pier.

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Camera Coach first analyzed the scene and surfaced options for what the user might want to focus on in the shot, highlighting different elements such as "Activity in the Water" or "The Structure of the Gulf Netting." I was particularly impressed with its ability to recognize exactly what it was looking at, presenting the option, "Focus on the Chelsea Piers Building," with no additional context beyond what it was seeing.

Once the demoer selected that he wanted to feature the buildings and sky, the steps were generated in seconds. The first directive was to turn the phone into landscape, then tilt the phone toward the sky, move the phone to the left to avoid the black window bar, and so on until the frame was perfectly composed for the photo.

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In another demo, we pointed the camera at a plant. Again, it provided different shot options, including some more original ones you may not have thought of, such as "Textured Leaf Close-Up." Once that option was selected, it generated similar steps. The biggest standout was that it generated an image of the leaf perfectly composed so we could mimic it to take the picture.

How to access

Camera Coach is available on the Pixel 10 Series, which launched today, and is available for preorder starting Aug. 20. The feature may trickle down to older models in the future, but Google has yet to confirm one way or the other.

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Whether a moderately tech-savvy person like myself would find a use for this feature on a daily basis is debatable, but I could see the need for users like my mom, who can't ever seem to get the framing just right when taking a photo, which in turn should get me better photos of myself -- and that I can be hyped about.

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