If your social media profile snaps need an update in 2024, Google just launched a new AI-powered tool to help you create some selfies with a historic twist.
Art Selfie 2, found in the Google Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android, is a new version of Google's original feature, which launched in 2018 to help you find similar people throughout art history.
Instead, this new version uses generative AI (of course) to edit your selfie and place you in the historical or artistic moment of your choice. Its list of 27 options includes everything from the Woodstock Festival to Gaucho Jungle and Rousseau, to art, history and travel subgenres.
This is not something we haven't already seen in applications like Lensa, but it is completely free and very easy to use. While you wait for your image to be generated (which takes about ten seconds), you can read about the historical significance of the topic you've chosen, giving you an educational excuse to give it a whirl.
Unfortunately, Art Selfie 2 is not yet available for your pets, and the Arts & Culture app only offers you the original Art Selfie option (in the Pet Portraits section) to help you find your cat's perfect match in art history . So for now, Sheba will have to look at your Italian Renaissance-style selfie with envy.
How to take an artistic selfie
The Art Selfie 2 feature is now available in the Google Arts & Culture app, which you can download now for Android and for iOS.
Once you have the app, go to the Play section in the bottom menu, choose Selfie Art 2and then take a selfie (once you have enabled the app to use your camera). You can take this photo by yourself or with friends.
You can change the photo by pressing the “Retake” button, but once you're happy, simply scroll down to see the different AI styles. Tap one of these to generate the image and see a description of the historical moment or painting.
Not happy with the results? You can press the Update button in the upper right corner to generate a new version. Once the app has done it, you can share it directly on social media or download it to your camera roll.
The rest of the Arts & Culture app is also worth exploring; In fact, we named it one of the 7 unrecognized Google apps and tools we loved last year, along with Google Family Link, Google Scholar, Google Flights, and more. .
