Lenovo wants to save you a trip to Photoshop with FlickLift, its new AI image editor that can remove backgrounds and upscale images in a pinch
IFA 2025Lenovo has a range of exciting products to showcase at IFA 2025, including new IdeaPad and Yoga laptops, OLED monitors, 3D smart glasses, and the much-anticipated Legion Go 2 handheld. While the flashy gaming PCs and laptops may grab most of the attention, the company also has a bunch of other interesting announcements, including a new image editing tool called FlickLift that's debuting on its latest Windows machines.
FlickLift is a lightweight, always-there photo editor that you can summon from any screen. Hover over an image and Lenovo’s AI-powered editor springs into action, pulling up the following four editing options:
- Remove the background
- Sharpen the entire image
- Sharpen human faces
- Double the size (image upscaling)
The basic idea is that instead of juggling apps or firing up Photoshop, you can make quick edits right inside your workflow. FlickLift works system-wide and runs entirely locally, allowing you to touch up a photo in your browser, in a Word document, or in a messaging app. You can also trigger the AI editor by right-clicking and circling an image on your screen. It’s obviously not a replacement for professional tools, but it can definitely make quick edits like background removal a lot less painful. In one example, Lenovo shows a blurry portrait instantly sharpened with the “Sharpen human faces” option, while another demo shows a cutout of a fashion model stripped of the background being lifted from a webpage and dropped straight into a Microsoft Word document. We’ll have to wait and see whether it works as reliably as the demos, but it does look quite promising.
Lenovo says FlickLift will come preloaded on select Intel and AMD-powered Yoga (10th Gen), Legion, and IdeaPad devices—support for Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered devices is "coming soon." It’s not clear whether the feature will remain exclusive to new hardware or make its way to more devices later on.
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