Describe Edits is for the times you know what you want but not which slider does it. You say "the sky is too bright", and Chobial moves Highlights on a sky mask. Every change it makes is a normal slider in the editor. So you can see what it did, take it further by hand, or take it back.
Which phones and tablets have it
- iPhone and iPad: devices with Apple Intelligence. If your device has it but it's turned off, Describe Edits asks you to turn it on in Settings.
- Android: phones that have Gemini Nano. The first time, the phone may need to download the model, and Chobial shows how far it has got.
On a device that can't run the model, Chobial doesn't show Describe Edits at all. Describe Edits is free.
Ask for an edit
- Open a photo and tap Describe Edits, beside Edit. In the editor, it's in the top bar.
- Type how the photo should look. Or tap the microphone and speak, then tap it again when you're done.
- One request can ask for several things. Put commas or "and" between them, like "brighter, more vibrant" or "warmer and a darker sky".
- The photo changes. Under your request, each change is a chip, like "Exposure +1.20 ↑ +0.40". That's where the slider is now and how far it moved.
A new request starts from the photo as it is now. So "warmer", then "a bit more", does what it says.
Change what it did
- One change: tap the × on its chip to take back only that change.
- The whole request: Weaker and Stronger make it lighter or heavier without asking again. Undo takes it back.
- Before and after: hold Compare, or the photo, to see it before the latest request.
- An earlier step: tap an earlier request to see the photo as that request left it. Go Back to This returns the photo there. Hold a request to see the photo before it.
Each photo keeps its conversation. It's there the next time you open the photo, with its edits.
What you can ask for
- Light: Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks. "Brighter", "darker highlights", "lift the shadows", "deeper blacks". Exposure moves up to about 2 stops in one request.
- Colour: Temperature, Tint, Vibrance and Saturation. "Warmer", "too yellow", "less green", "punchier colours". Saturation all the way down is black and white.
- Tone and texture: Contrast, Clarity, Dehaze, Fade and Grain. "Moodier", "crisper details", "less haze", "faded film", "more grain".
- One colour: name red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple or magenta, and only that colour changes. "Make the greens more yellow", "more saturated blues", "greens are too bright". Teal, cyan and turquoise mean aqua. Violet means purple, and pink means magenta.
- Part of the photo: name the sky, the subject, the background, people or a face. Chobial finds that part and makes a mask for it. "Darker sky", "brighter face", "cooler background". Every value above works on a part, except Fade and Grain.
- A film: name one of Chobial's films, or the film stock it's modelled on, and it loads. "Like Portra 800" or "Classic Chrome, a bit warmer". The rest of the request goes to the sliders.
What stays on your device
The request is worked out on your device. On iPhone and iPad, that's Apple Intelligence. On Android, it's Gemini Nano. Your photo isn't sent anywhere.
When you use the microphone, Chobial asks your device to turn your speech into words on the device. Some devices and languages can't do that, and then the speech service may handle the audio on its own servers. The privacy policy explains this in full.
Turn it off
If you'd rather not see it, turn off Settings › Describe Edits. That hides its buttons. What you asked before stays with each photo, and the edits stay too.
For the editor's other tools, see the help pages.