Samsung has announced new features for its sketch-to-image feature, which will arrive on Tuesday with the upcoming Galaxy S25 series. The South Korean tech giant plans to significantly expand its AI products with the One UI 7 operating system, which the company calls it “the first integrated AI platform.” Earlier, the tech giant teased the new features of virtual assistant Bixby, and now, it confirms that sketches of images will support multimodal functionality. This means that the user will be able to generate images by including text prompts.
Samsung’s sketches to get new AI capabilities
In a newsroom post, the tech giant highlighted the new features of sketching to embody users’ experience of the Galaxy S25 series. It is worth noting that the feature was introduced last year with the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6, and later expanded to several other smartphones and tablets.
Currently, sketch-to-image is an auxiliary tool that uses AI to perfect any content of user sketches. This means that one can smear a few lines to roughly draw an image of the house, and the tool can identify what the user is trying to create, and then enhance it looks like a sketch made by an artist. The AI function can also generate images in a variety of styles.
However, with a UI 7, Samsung integrates sketches into images to draw assist and adds new features. With the new multimodal feature, users can now draw an object and then add text prompts to convert the image to something else. The company said it highlighted an example where users can draw images of cats and type “space suits” to generate images of cats wearing space suits.
The user can be as descriptive as he wants to get detailed output. It is worth noting that this is impossible because the tool can only improve the content drawn. Samsung stressed that a new version of AI tools will allow users to bring their imaginations into reality and even create something that may be difficult to draw.
The new version of Sketch to Image will support text prompts and voice prompts for ease of use. It already supports S-pen and fingers as touch inputs to avoid limiting users to accessories.
