Whisk Help Center

Create some magic

We believe you shouldn’t have to “learn how to prompt” to create images. It should be easy to try things out, iterate, refine and remix ideas visually. Like you’d do with a friend. So we’re trying something new!

Whisk is labs.google/fx’s latest generative media experiment, focusing on fast visual ideation without the need to deeply understand prompting!

Just throw in a couple of images for light guidance (scene, subjects, styles) and Whisk will try to capture their essence to suggest some images for you to keep ideating on. Browse our gallery for inspiration, select what you want to recreate, and add your own spin!

Behind the scenes, the Gemini model automatically writes a detailed caption of your images. It then feeds those descriptions into Google’s latest image generation model.

Whether it’s turning a drawing into a plushie, creating an epic holiday card, or visualizing the beginning of a story… We’re excited to see where Whisk takes you.

Whisk Animate lets you transform generated images into short videos with Veo 2. To help you get started, Whisk users in G1 supported countries can generate 10 free videos each month! Please note that this resets every month.

For those looking to create more videos, subscribe to Google AI Pro or Ultra for an increased generation cap. Similar to the free tier, these subscriber credits also reset every month. If you become a subscriber, your monthly limit is inclusive of the 10 free videos.

• Creating with Whisk is simple!arrow_drop_down

  • Prepare

    Bring in visual elements for Whisk to analyze and combine. Drag and drop an image, upload it from a folder. You can also create a simple reference from a text prompt, … or have us seed a couple ideas by selecting “inspire me” or using the “roll the dice” features.

    Behind the scenes: these assets go through Gemini’s visual understanding for captioning. These text descriptions are what Whisk uses. Click edit to see if we got it right and refine as needed!

  • Explore

    Time to mix things up! You can select assets (1 or more subjects, 1 scene, 1 style) and put them to work. The system will bring those together in creative remixes.

    See what Whisk comes up with, and keep riffing! You can also throw in some light guidance to play around with details and keep your imagination going.

    “Make the characters eat ice-cream”
    “The dinosaur and the cat are high fiving!”
    “Make sure the enamel pin is round.”
    “Adjust the color scheme to follow a pastel palette”

    Behind the scenes: Gemini composes prompts from the captions + your guidance to create the prompt for you. Click edit to see what it’s been whispering to the image models.

  • Refine

    See an image you like but maybe that hat should be blue? Or is it missing a sunset in the background? Enter refine mode and ask for smaller to medium changes that stay directionally close to the original.

    Behind the scenes: Gemini updates the prompt based on your guidance! We still regenerate all the pixels from that prompt, but ask the model to stay close.

  • Diagnose

    Let’s be honest, things might go in wild directions! Maybe some elements were dropped? Maybe that exact thing you’re looking for just doesn’t match?

    At any stage above you can diagnose the underlying prompts by clicking the prompt button / icon and edit them, add in those critical details manually and ask the model to generate more options. Ultimately, you’re in control :-)

  • Share

    Love your final creation? Send it out as a share card for your friends to remix! Click the share icon on your image within the tool to generate a public link.

• What do the categories mean?arrow_drop_down

  • Subject

    That’s what the image is about! Character, objects or a combination of such. An old rotary phone! A cool chair! A cardboard movie display. A mysterious renaissance vampire. You can also throw yourself in as a directional reference and see what comes out :-)

  • Scene

    Where the subjects will show up. A fashion runway? A pop up holiday card? You can bring characters in the scene alongside the ones already there; or maybe you can swap them in? Worth trying out.

  • Style

    Maybe you want to throw more guidance on the aesthetic, material or technique used to represent the above. Style is for that. Feel free to specify what you care about most in the main prompt box to reinforce that guidance.

  You can refer to them in natural language when you add more details (e.g. “our subjects having a birthday dinner”), and Whisk will try to weave that in.

• How does Whisk work?arrow_drop_down

  In order to remix elements from different images together, we first need to develop an understanding of each image you reference. This is where Gemini’s multi-modal understanding comes in! When you upload an image, Whisk uses Gemini to visually understand those images and generate text descriptions (or captions) about them. Or in other words, translate that image to text (I2T). These descriptions are meant to capture the essence of your references, not to replicate the original, to facilitate remixing ideas.

  These captions are then used to write a detailed prompt to generate an image based on your guidance using our latest and most powerful image generation model, Imagen 3. Or in other words, translating text back to image (T2I).

  Whisk Animate lets you transform generated images into short videos with Veo 2 by letting you specify motion guidance for your Whisk generated images.

  This process above helps Whisk better understand and represent the ideas you’re forming, and iterate while conversing with you.

• That’s not my character - how do I fix it?arrow_drop_down

  Outputs will only resemble your uploads, not be an exact copy. In our experiment, Whisk extracts only a few key characteristics from the image you provide to guide the model. Our goal is not to create an exact replica, but rather to capture the essence of the subject.

  Therefore, the generated image may differ in appearance. For example, the generated subject might be of a different height, weight, or have a different hairstyle or skin tone. We understand that these features may be crucial to the unique identity of your character. To achieve a result closer to your vision, we encourage you to provide more detailed prompts and refine your instructions.

  You can use the top right menu to send us feedback.

• Where is Whisk available?arrow_drop_down

  We’re working to bring our tools to as many people as possible. Whisk is available to 18+ users in all labs.google/fx countries except the UK.

• What is Whisk Animate?arrow_drop_down
  Whisk Animate lets you transform generated images into short videos with Veo 2 by letting you specify motion guidance for your Whisk generated images.
• Where is Whisk Animate available?arrow_drop_down

  Whisk Animate is available in the following countries: American Samoa, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

• What is the gallery and how can I use it?arrow_drop_down
  Use our Whisk gallery for inspiration! Discover new ideas for your Whisk creations, pick what you like and remix it by clicking on ‘Make it your own’.
• Can I share my creation?arrow_drop_down
  Yes, just click on the download icon to save and share or generate a share link. We’d also love to see what you create, please share with us through our Discord channel too!
• What gets shared when I create a share link?arrow_drop_down

  The share link will display:

  • The recipe for your creation.
  • A standalone image of your creation.
  • Optionally, the ingredients (assets) used in your creation.
• Can I choose not to share the ingredients I used?arrow_drop_down
  Yes. By default, the ingredients (assets) used in your creation are included when you share. However, you have the option to hide these ingredients when you generate the share link.
• Who can see my shared creation?arrow_drop_down
  Anyone who has the share link can view your creation. It's not possible to restrict access to specific accounts.
• What happens when someone clicks on a share link I sent them?arrow_drop_down
  When someone clicks on a share link, your creation will load directly in their tool. This allows them to view it and start remixing it to make their own version.
• What happens if I delete something that I've already shared?arrow_drop_down
  • If you delete a shared image: The share link will no longer show the image. Instead, it will display a message saying the content is no longer available.
  • If you delete an asset (ingredient) that was part of a shared creation: The share link will still load, but it will do so without that specific asset.
  • Important Note: If another user has already remixed your shared image before you deleted an asset, they will have a copy of that asset. Deleting your original asset will not remove it from their remixed version.
• Can I access my previous generations?arrow_drop_down
  Yes, you can access your previous generations via the My Library link at the top of the Whisk page. Alternatively, going to https://labs.google/fx/library and selecting Whisk in the product dropdown list will also show you your past generations. From here, you can edit the project title. You can also delete projects, or specific assets within a project. Deleting a project will delete all assets associated with it. Projects are auto saved, and assets created in a single session are grouped within the same project.
• Can I use my creations for commercial purposes?arrow_drop_down
  The Terms of Service govern how Whisk may be used, and must be consulted and followed in their entirety. Per those terms: Some of our services allow you to generate original content. Google won't claim ownership over that content.
• Will my generations contain a watermark?arrow_drop_down

  All outputs generated in Whisk using Veo and Imagen include invisible SynthID watermarks. SynthID identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated content.

  As an additional step to help people identify AI-generated content, Animate videos generated in Whisk will contain a visible watermark indicating the content was made with Veo.

• Morearrow_drop_down
  For information about your user data, user history, our generative policies, how to send feedback and more, please check-out labs.google/fx’s FAQ