YouTube Tips: YouTube Shorts has fun AI features, creators can now make videos from photos..

YouTube on Wednesday announced some new creation tools for Shorts to make content creation even easier and interactive. This includes a new photo-to-video tool, allowing creators to take photos from their gallery and convert them into videos. Now, creators can add movement and animation to their still photos, and that too for free. Apart from this, doodles can now be converted into images and selfies into videos through AI-based generative effects.

New features in Shorts

According to YouTube's blog post, this new photo-to-video tool runs on Google's Veo 2 video generation model. With this, creators can bring movement to landscape photos, animate group photos, and convert simple pictures into videos.

This feature is currently available for free to creators in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. To convert a photo into a video, you have to choose a photo from your gallery, then select a creative suggestion and tap on the 'Create Video' option.

The company has also said that the integration of the Veo 3 model will start in the coming months, which will make more advanced video generation possible.

Apart from this, YouTube has also launched new generative effects. In this, you can convert simple doodles into images and convert your selfies into video clips with effects. This option can be accessed through the sparkles icon visible in the Shorts camera.

These effects are also available in the same countries where the photo-to-video feature has been released. Google says that soon, these features will be available to more creators around the world. Currently, all these generative effects are based on the Veo 2 model, but in the near future, support for Veo 3 will also be added to it.

YouTube has also launched a new 'AI Playground' for all these AI tools. Here, creators will get the latest generative AI based tools, which have many ready-made templates and pre-filled prompts. With this, users can create Shorts very quickly and easily.