Pixel 6 Magic Eraser
On top of all the improvements to its camera hardware, the Pixel 6 also comes with a few new AI-powered modes and features to play with, including the new Magic Eraser tool. For anyone familiar with Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill feature, Google’s Magic Eraser tool works almost exactly the same, letting you highlight distracting objects in a picture like a photo-bomber or an out of place toy by shading it or circling it with your finger, and then technomagically removing it from the frame.
And while it’s not quite as powerful or precise as Content Aware Fill, I was still able to use it to remove not one, but two objects from the photo above, without really negatively impacting the rest of the photo. If you look closely, you can still see the shadow left behind by the ashtray on the right, and some artifacts from the cone on the left. But with the focus of the picture being on the artwork in the center, you’re still left with a more focused and less distracting image than you’d otherwise get without Magic Eraser.
