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Among its smart photo tricks is something called Best Take.
Up until today, I’d only seen canned images produced by the Best Take technology.
Google Pixel 8 Pro is ready to suggest the best photo
Obviously, this is not exactly how you might normally capture a sequence of group photos.
The models also complied with their own silly, serious, and distracted mugs.
But we wanted to use Best Take, so we opened the photo and then selected Tools.
Google Pixel 8 Pro is ready to suggest the best photo
Under that, we selected Best Take.
While Best Take does not use facial recognition, the system does understand what a face is.
Inside the tool, we could see all the faces collected in the photos.
Google Pixel 8 Pro Best Take lives under tools.
To register a face for potential swapping, they have to be free of obstructions.
A plant or hands in front of a face will make it impossible to include as a face option.
When we selected my face, I saw three options.
Google Pixel 8 Pro Best Take finds all the faces and their various expressions.
One was a nice smile, another looked dead serious, and the last was a smirk.
With a tap, we could swap in the different faces.
As my head switched, the models' faces around me remained the same.
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More importantly, my face swap did not look like it was done by a ransom note writer.
Aside from the expressions, I could not see the stitching between my new face/head and unchanging body.
Best Take also won’t work if you wait 10 minutes between shots.
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Too much will have changed (lighting, poses, etc.)
for a believable face swap.
Also, thankfully, there’s no option to swap your face with someone else’s.
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What’s remarkable to me is that Best Take does its AI work locally.
Google isn’t sending your sequence of photos to its Tensor Processor Unit-filled cloud.
It’s all done on the Pixel 8 Pro and is a surprisingly fast process.
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The other bit of good news is that Best Take is non-destructive.
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