Samsung Galaxy AI vs. Apple Intelligence: Picture era

Within the final episode of Samsung Galaxy AI versus Apple Intelligence, we in contrast Samsung’s Picture Help with Apple’s Clear Up. They’ll take away objects from pictures to make them look cleaner, and Samsung’s providing comes out on high when it comes to high quality and the quantity of features accessible.

On this episode of the sequence, we’re evaluating Samsung’s Drawing Help with Apple’s Picture Playground and Picture Wand. They provide picture era capabilities, which, we predict, is amongst their most enjoyable AI options. Let’s see what they’ve in retailer.

Be aware: For our Samsung Galaxy AI versus Apple Intelligence sequence, we’re utilizing Samsung’s Galaxy S23 working One UI 7.0 beta and Apple’s iPhone 16 Professional Max working iOS 18.4.1. The Galaxy S23 is an older gadget, nevertheless it handles AI options equally in addition to newer units just like the Galaxy S25.

To start out utilizing Drawing Help, you must first go to Settings » Galaxy AI » Drawing Help and activate the function, after which head to Settings » Show and activate Edge Panels. When you do this, you possibly can entry Drawing Help in two methods. 

A method is to swipe left from the proper fringe of the show to entry Edge Panels and faucet on Drawing Help. On units with the S Pen, such because the Galaxy S25 Extremely, you may also press the button on the stylus to entry the Air Command menu and choose Drawing Help from there.

To make use of Picture Playground, open the Picture Playground app, and to make use of Picture Wand, open the Notes app, faucet on the sketch icon on the backside, and choose the writing device that has a multicoloured head and a black-coloured backside.

As you possibly can see, on Apple’s units, you don’t should activate any function to entry picture era options, like you must on Samsung’s units. Nonetheless, on Apple’s units, the picture era capabilities are cut up between two apps (Picture Playground and Notes), which implies that you would be able to’t entry all of the picture era options in a single place, which is a bummer.

Samsung’s Drawing Help affords three choices for producing pictures. First, it could actually convert your drawing into a picture. Second, it could actually take a picture of an individual and generate a creative model of it. Third, it permits you to describe the picture you need, and based mostly in your enter, it can create one for you.

When you open Drawing Help, it can present you all three choices on the principle display screen. The choice for changing drawings into pictures is denoted by an icon that resembles a scribble. The one for giving your photos a creative look is denoted by an icon that resembles a photograph. The one for producing pictures based mostly on person enter is denoted by an icon that resembles the letter ‘T.’

Under that, it can present you artwork types for every kind of picture era. This format is way simpler to grasp and use in comparison with Apple’s Picture Playground and Picture Wand.

Apple’s Picture Playground and Picture Wand mixed, too, offer you three choices for producing pictures. First, they’ll convert your drawing into a picture. Second, they’ll take a picture of an individual and generate a creative model of it. Third, they allow you to describe the picture you need and create one based mostly in your enter.

Nonetheless, there’s one main distinction between Samsung Galaxy AI and Apple Intelligence right here, which we talked about earlier. With Galaxy AI, you will discover all three options in Drawing Help. Whereas, with Apple Intelligence, you will see the primary function within the Notes app with Picture Wand, and the opposite two options within the Picture Playground app.

When you open Picture Playground, you will note a text-input subject on the backside that claims ‘Describe a picture,’ the place you possibly can describe the picture you need the function to create. Subsequent to it, you will note an choice that resembles an individual. This one exhibits you the faces of individuals out of your picture gallery. When you faucet on it, the function will generate its creative variations.

Subsequent to it, there is a button with the plus signal. It offers picture type choices and buttons for choosing and taking pictures to make use of them for picture era. Proper above these choices, you will see presets for Themes, Costumes, Equipment, and Locations to personalise the pictures that Picture Playground generates in keeping with your style.

To transform drawings into pictures, open Notes, choose the sketch icon on the backside, draw something, choose Picture Wand, and draw a circle round it. The function will then ask you to explain the artwork in a single or a number of phrases. When you present that data, it generates pictures based mostly on the drawing and the outline you’ve gotten supplied for it.

The very first thing we observed was that drawing artwork in Samsung’s Drawing Help was a lot simpler than performing the duty in Apple Notes. That is as a result of Drawing Help robotically will increase and reduces the thickness of the road based mostly on the velocity of finger motion and different components, and corrects the irregularities within the shapes. Apple Notes, alternatively, lacks these capabilities, which makes drawing in it a lot tougher. As you possibly can see within the screenshots under, we drew a rose in Drawing Help and Picture Playground, and it appears significantly better within the former.

When changing drawings into pictures, Samsung’s Drawing Help affords six types: Watercolour, Illustration, Pop Artwork, Sketch, 3D Cartoon, and Oil Portray. Apple’s Picture Wand, alternatively, affords three types: Sketch, Illustration, and Animation. Which means Drawing Help affords three extra choices than Picture Wand. As talked about earlier, Picture Wand asks you what the artwork is about earlier than engaged on it, which Drawing Help doesn’t, so you’ll want to carry out one much less step to transform drawings into pictures utilizing Drawing Help than Picture Wand. 

Samsung’s Drawing Help, in addition to Apple’s Picture Wand, allow you to present extra directions about the way you need the picture to look. For instance, whenever you draw a rose, you possibly can command each to make it look blue. To make use of this function in Drawing Help, as soon as it converts your drawing into a picture, faucet on the icon that resembles ’T’ after which describe your choice. As for utilizing this function in Picture Wand, as soon as the function converts your artwork into a picture, within the ‘Describe a picture‘ subject, kind your choice. Sadly, Picture Wand failed a lot of the instances at this job.

It is usually value mentioning that for each description you present, Picture Wand generates 4 pictures, and as you retain reaching the final picture, it can hold producing extra photos. Drawing Help generates just one picture. That being mentioned, in Drawing Help, you possibly can faucet on ‘Generate One Extra‘ as many instances as you wish to make it create extra variations. For sure, each allow you to copy, save, and share the pictures they create.

Time for the ultimate end result. Listed here are the pictures Samsung’s Drawing Help generated from our drawing.

Listed here are the pictures Apple’s Picture Wand generated from our drawing.

Let’s begin with the picture era accuracy. As you possibly can see from the pictures above, Samsung is way forward of Apple. Once we drew a rose on each units, the pictures that Drawing Help generated have been a lot nearer to our artwork in comparison with those that Picture Wand generated, no matter the types we selected. This alone makes it a transparent winner, however Samsung goes one step additional by permitting you to regulate how intently the AI end result will resemble your enter.

As for the visible attraction, Drawing Help and Picture Wand generated different-looking photos. Whereas appears are subjective, we predict that they each do an equally good job in their very own methods. As for high quality, those that Drawing Help generated had the next decision (1,536 x 1,536 pixels) than those Picture Wand generated (1,024 x 1,024 pixels), making them seem sharper.

In relation to producing pictures from textual content descriptions, Galaxy AI Drawing Help affords six types: Watercolour, Illustration, Pop Artwork, Sketch, 3D Cartoon, and Oil Portray. However, Apple Intelligence’s Picture Playground affords three types: Animation, Illustration, and Sketch. As soon as once more, Apple affords three fewer choices than Samsung.

Nonetheless, Picture Playground permits you to add additional directions on the way you need the picture to look. Drawing Help doesn’t. With the latter, if you wish to make any edits, you’ll have to write a wholly new description.

As talked about earlier, Apple Intelligence’s Picture Playground additionally affords presets for Themes, Costumes, Equipment, and Locations. You’ll be able to throw these within the combine, and the function will generate pictures accordingly. Whereas Galaxy AI’s Drawing Help doesn’t provide this function, you possibly can all the time kind a brand new command directing it to create pictures with sure themes, costumes, equipment, and locations.

We requested Samsung’s Drawing Help and Apple’s Picture Wand to create a picture of a cat consuming noodles, they usually got here up with different-looking photos.

Listed here are the pictures Samsung’s Drawing Help generated.

Listed here are the pictures Apple’s Picture Playground generated.

In relation to utilizing pictures of individuals and making their creative variations, Drawing Help affords 4 type choices: Comedian, 3D Cartoon, Sketch, and Watercolour. Picture Wand affords the identical three types as earlier than — Animation, Illustration, and Sketch — which is one lower than Drawing Help.

That being mentioned, Apple Picture Wand additionally permits you to select from 5 pores and skin tones and three varieties of appearances, choices that Drawing Help doesn’t present.

Time for the ultimate end result. Listed here are the pictures Drawing Help generated.

Listed here are the pictures Picture Playground generated.

Beginning with the accuracy, as you can also make out from the pictures above, Samsung, as soon as once more, does a significantly better job than Apple. I selected the identical image of myself in Drawing Help and Picture Wand, and the pictures the previous generated have been a lot nearer to how I look than those the latter created. This alone makes Samsung’s Drawing Help vastly higher than Apple’s Picture Playground.

To sum it up, relating to producing pictures from textual content description, Samsung Galaxy AI Drawing Help and Apple Intelligence are neck to neck. Nonetheless, when it comes to turning drawings into pictures and creating creative variations of individuals, Drawing Help does a significantly better job than Picture Wand and Picture Playground, making Samsung the clear winner on this spherical.