First off, I'm not an artist. To be honest, I'm not good at drawing. But the Galaxy Z Fold 6 makes me feel like an artist. And more importantly, this foldable phone lets you create amazing results, morphing reality into your own way.
That may sound a bit dramatic and exaggerated, but so is the outcome.
I'm talking about “Sketch to Image,” a Galaxy AI feature built into the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6. To edit an image, just press the AI button and tap “Sketch to Image.” From there, all you have to do is doodle on the display and tap “Generate.”
You don't need an S Pen to use this feature; just draw with your finger. However, if you buy a Samsung stylus, you might get better results. Take a look at the first example. On the first slide, you'll see my sketch, and when you press the arrow on the right, you'll see the generated image.
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This photo of the New York Public Library was taken with the Z Fold 6's ultra-wide camera, so there's plenty of room to add in some fake UFO sightings. Don't worry, there's a watermark in the bottom left corner that says “AI-generated content,” but you can edit it out.
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As you can see, my sketch was pretty crude, but Galaxy AI intuitively understood what I was trying to draw and transformed it into a photorealistic spaceship with a big circle with a bright light visible underneath, which even when zoomed in felt like it was part of the original image.
Next, I tried to see what would happen if I drew a parrot on his shoulder. The important word here is “tried,” because this stick figure would make any art teacher laugh. But still!
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Well, I didn't get the parrot, but I did get the cockatoo. It looks so realistic perched on your shoulder. Look at the position of the legs. I love the worn beak and shiny feathers. Even the lighting looks so realistic in the pictures.
Last but not least, I wanted to see what would happen if I added a bee to a close-up of a purple flower.
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The Galaxy Z Fold 6 has once again transformed a child's doodle into a realistic bee on a flower. The translucent wings and bee hairs all look very realistic. But if you look closely, you'll see that some of the flowers on the left are colored like a bee, as if they were created using a clone stamp.
Ultimately, Sketch to Image is far from perfect: A few times I got an error message telling me I needed to draw something smaller, and sometimes the end result was something completely different and more cartoony than I intended, like my sketch of a dinosaur in Times Square.
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But it's still a pretty impressive attempt to insert something resembling a T-Rex — or, at the very least, an oversized T-Rex action figure — into the middle of Manahattan.
Sketch to Image is definitely a fun feature, but it's important to note that Sketch to Image can also be used for more nefarious purposes, such as adding things to an image that weren't originally there.
So, as with deepfakes and other AI creations, we need to be vigilant in determining what is real and what isn't, but this and similar tools will make that increasingly difficult.
