The End of ImageFX

House alien.
by Flow.

 For several weeks I have been seeing a message inside Google's ImageFX saying that Google is terminating ImageFX on April 30th 2026. Today I clicked the button to transfer my old saved images from ImageFX to Google's Flow. It only took Google a few minutes to transfer over to Flow my old ImageFX images going back to January 2025.

Any of the old ImageFX-generated images can now be edited by Flow using Nano Banana 2. I also have access to the original text prompts that ImageFX used to make the images. An example is shown below in Figure 1...

Figure 1. The end of ImageFX.

Inside the ImageFX Creations folder in Google's Flow.

The original text prompt for the image that is shown above was: "science fiction movie still, a futuristic mansion on a distant exoplanet, the mansion is surrounded by palm trees and other desert plants, there are NO suns, stars or planets visible in the movie still 35mm film".

I gave Flow a new prompt that it could use to edit the original image: "Add to this science fiction scene: in the foreground a tall slender young blond woman walking on the stone-paved path towards the front door of the mansion. The woman is seen from behind. The woman is dressed in a tight-fitting futuristic silver metallic jumpsuit that sparkles in the star light of this distant exoplanet. The entire body of the woman can be seen from her black boots to the top of her head." The new image that was generated by Flow is shown below in Figure 2a...

Figure 2a. New image generated by Google's Flow from the image shown in Figure 1.

Planet by Flow.

I made the mistake of mentioning in my text prompt that this scene is on an exoplanet. Google's free image generating software always wants to place big looming planets in the sky for any scene involving an exoplanet (see Figure 2a, above). I wonder if Flow could have found a more ugly way to arrange her hair. I don't know if their "pro" version of the image-generating software is any better than the free version that I have access to.

Humanoid
by Flow.

In my science fiction story "The Nanite Smuggler", Tyhry visits the home of Kasty the Yastyn on the planet Threy. That big empty house (Figure 1) seemed too empty. Here is the new editing prompt that I applied to the image in Figure 2a: "Change the woman's hair so that it falls naturally past her shoulders. Remove the looming ringed planet from the sky. Add a tall slender humanoid female inside the mansion in a room on the first floor. The humanoid female is looking out through the window at the blond woman as she approaches the mansion." The resulting image is shown below in Figure 2b...

Figure 2b. New image generated by Google's Flow from the image shown in Figure 2a.

Figure 3. Altered alien by Flow.

For me, it looks like this alien mansion has three floors. The humanoid alien that was generated by Flow appears to extend from the first floor to the second floor (Figure 2b, above).

I tried to correct the size of the alien and alter its appearance with the following new editing prompt: "Reduce the size of the humanoid female inside the house to half the height. Give the humanoid female long wavy black hair, long pointed ears that protrude through the hair on her head and very large glowing alien eyes." The resulting new image is shown in Figure 3.

For the new image in Figure 3, Flow was able to put hair on the head of the alien and give her long ears and glowing eyes, but she appears to be only slightly shorted than what was originally generated in Figure 2b.

Figure 4. The Astra Lounge by Flow.

I tried once more with a simple editing prompt: "Reduce the height of the humanoid female to half of the current size." The resulting image is shown in Figure 4.

 Welcome to the Astra Lounge. Flow proved that it can shrink a woman, but Flow shrank the wrong woman. Also, Flow spontaneously decided to add a sign that says "Astra Lounge". This kind of inability of Google's free version of the software to follow what seems like simple instructions is a source of frustration. These newly generated images were saved inside Flow's "ImageFX Creations" folder.

Figure 5. A 9/8/2025 Whisk project moved to Flow.

I also transferred my saved files from Whisk to Flow and they were added in to the displayed list of Flow "projects" (going back to December 2025, see Figure 5), with the oldest successfully transferred Whisk-generated files shown as being from May of 2025. It seems as if I did not recover my oldest Whisk files which were created in January of 2025.

The transferred Whisk → Flow files include the Whisk-generated videos (see Figure 6).

Figure 6. A Whisk video now in Flow.

 Extend. For the old Whisk-generated videos, the available options in Flow are shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7. Video options for Flow.

When some of the Whisk-generated images are re-opened in Google's Flow, the images do not appear to have been correctly proportioned (see Figure 8).

I had Flow make an edit to the Whisk-generated image that is shown below in Figure 8. The text prompt for the edit was: "Add some lens flare centered on the white core of the alien creature." The new image generated by Flow is shown below in Figure 9.

Figure 9. Made by Flow from Figure 8.

Figure 8. A Whisk-generated image displayed by Google's Flow in two different ways.

 No, I don't care if Figure 8 (below) is below Figure 9 (to the left) on this page. I wanted Figure 8 to be displayed at a large size.

I tried to get Flow to make a short video clip with the pink alien wrapping its tentacles around the woman....

There are two different short Flow-generated video clips in the video shown above. Those two video clips were combined with the "lens flare" still image from Figure 9 (see above on this page), all packaged with some stock audio by Apple's iMovie into a 25 second video. She says, “Let’s try to establish a synapex connection.”
 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Some of the Whisk images that did not get transferred to Flow can be seen on these blog pages: "Back in Time", "Back Track", "Hair Nanites", "What is Library?"

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