NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 24, 2025--
Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the leading AI and AR beauty and fashion tech provider, today announced the release of the AI Editing Agent in its flagship YouCam Perfect app. Designed as an intelligent AI assistant, the Editing Agent allows users to complete a wide range of image edits through natural conversation, eliminating the need to manually select tools or navigate menus. The new version also supports the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) model and introduces multi-image upload, enabling users not only to edit but also to unlock new creative possibilities by combining different elements across images.
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Beyond Chat Prompts, Into Real and Smooth Conversation
Current chat-based editing approaches often regenerate the entire image with each new command, making it difficult to refine a single element. They also struggle to maintain consistency when generating realistic styles, with faces frequently diverging from the original photo.
YouCam Perfect’s AI Editing Agent addresses these challenges directly. By combining semantic understanding with precise image recognition, the agent delivers detail-level edits while preserving the integrity of the original image. With the added support of the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) model and multi-image upload, users can refine exactly what they want, from subtle retouching to complex multi-step edits, while also exploring imaginative workflows that merge elements from different photos. The result is a more natural, fluid conversation-driven editing experience that transforms dialogue into creativity, without compromising realism.
Dozens of Edits, One Natural Dialogue
Powered by the latest Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the AI Editing Agent delivers an entirely new way to create on mobile. There is no need to search through menus or sliders. Users can simply start a conversation with the agent, asking for edits like “make the sky pink” or “brighten my face,” and even more complex requests such as “create a Polaroid-style photo of these two people holding each other.” The results appear instantly within the chat.
This conversational photo editing workflow shifts photo editing from manual tool selection to guided collaboration with an intelligent agent that understands both language and images. The Editing Agent brings together YouCam’s most-loved features, including background removal, object erasing, color adjustments, hairstyle swaps, and body reshaping, and makes them all accessible in one place.
From Tools to Conversational Photo Editing
The AI Editing Agent represents more than just a product update. It is a paradigm shift in the way editing takes place. Users no longer need to figure out which tool to select. Instead of scrolling through menus and guessing which feature fits, they can just type and carry on a conversation with YouCam Perfect’s Editing Agent, and watch the edit appear instantly.
This change makes editing faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Acting as a creative assistant, the Editing Agent delivers a conversation-driven workflow that feels like having a creative agent built right into your phone. The experience is intuitive, precise, and accessible to anyone seeking professional-quality results without a steep learning curve.
Part of the YouCam AI Agent Future
The Editing Agent is just the beginning. It’s the first of several AI-powered agents coming to YouCam Apps series, each designed to help you create, design, and imagine more through natural, everyday conversation.
“You shouldn’t need to learn editing tools to make your photos look amazing,” said Alice Chang, Founder and CEO of Perfect Corp. “With our new Editing Agent, creativity feels as easy as chatting. This is the future of editing: effortless, instant, and open to everyone.”
Creativity Without Limits
The YouCam apps have been downloaded over 1.1 billion times by creators around the world. Building on this success, YouCam Perfect continues to evolve as an all-in-one platform for photo retouching, design, and generative AI, now enhanced with the new AI Editing Agent.
The AI Editing Agent is available in the latest version of YouCam Perfect for iOS.
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About Perfect Corp.
Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF) is a global leader in AI and AR technology, redefining creativity across beauty, fashion, skincare, and digital content creation. Its YouCam suite of apps has been downloaded over 1.1 billion times globally, empowering users to create, edit, and express themselves through photo, video, and generative AI tools. The YouCam platform also includes a powerful web-based editor and a suite of developer APIs, providing creators, brands, and technology partners with seamless access to content creation capabilities across platforms.
For brands and professionals, Perfect Corp. offers an award-winning portfolio of enterprise technologies, including virtual try-on experiences for makeup, hair, jewelry, watches, and fashion accessories, as well as AI-powered skin and hair analysis.
With a brand portfolio that includes YouCam and Skincare Pro, and a network of over 800 global brand partners, Perfect Corp. is transforming the beauty experience through personalized, immersive, and intelligent innovation.
For more information, visit perfectcorp.com and follow @Perfect-Corp.
Perfect Corp. Brings AI Editing Agent to YouCam Perfect, Enabling Effortless and Conversational Photo Editing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States said Sunday it rescued a service member missing behind enemy lines since Iran downed a fighter jet, as President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Tehran with a new looming deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran showed no signs of backing down, striking economic and infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries.
The airman’s extraction followed a U.S. search-and-rescue operation after the Friday crash of the F-15E Strike Eagle, as Iran also promised a reward for anyone who turned in an “enemy pilot.” Trump said he was injured but in stable condition.
“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour,” Trump wrote on social media.
A second crew member was rescued earlier.
The fighter jet was the first American aircraft to have crashed in Iranian territory since the U.S. and Israel launched the war, striking Iran on Feb. 28. The war has since killed thousands, shaken global markets, cut off key shipping routes and spiked fuel prices. Both sides have threatened and hit civilian targets, bringing warnings of possible war crimes.
Trump said last week that the U.S. had “decimated” Iran and would finish the war “very fast.” Two days later, Iran shot down two U.S. military planes, showing the ongoing perils of the bombing campaign and the ability of a degraded Iranian military to continue to hit back.
As Iran continues to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz, Trump, in a weekend social media post, threatened to unleash “all Hell” if it isn’t opened by Monday. He has issued such threats before and extended them when mediators have claimed progress toward ending the war on agreeable terms.
The other jet to go down was a U.S. A-10 attack aircraft. Neither the status of the crew nor exactly where it crashed was immediately known.
On Sunday, Iran’s state TV aired a video showing what it claimed were parts of American aircraft shot down by Iranian forces, along with a photo of thick, black smoke rising into the air. The broadcaster said Iran had shot down an American transport plane and two helicopters that were part of the rescue operation.
However, a regional intelligence official briefed on the mission told The Associated Press that the U.S. military blew up two transport planes due to a technical malfunction, forcing it to bring in additional aircraft to complete the rescue.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the covert mission.
In Kuwait, an Iranian drone attack caused significant damage to two power plants and put a water desalination station out of service, according to the Ministry of Electricity. No injuries were reported from the attack, the ministry said.
In Bahrain, the national oil company said that a drone attack caused a fire at one of its storage facilities, which was extinguished. It said the damage was still being assessed and no injuries had been reported.
In the United Arab Emirates, authorities responded to multiple fires at the Borouge petrochemicals plant that they said were caused by intercepted debris. Production at the plant in Ruwais, near the UAE’s western border with Saudi Arabia, was halted.
The strike came a day after Israel struck a petrochemical plant in Iran that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said generated revenue that it had used to fund the war.
Trump renewed his threats for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz by Monday or face devastating consequences, writing Saturday in a social media post: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”
The waterway is a critical chokepoint for global energy shipments, especially oil and gas moving from the Persian Gulf to Europe and Asia. Disruptions there have injected volatility into the market and pushed oil and gas-importing countries to seek alternative sources.
“The doors of hell will be opened to you” if Iran’s infrastructure is attacked, Gen. Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi with the country’s joint military command said late Saturday in response to Trump’s renewed threat, state media reported. In turn, the general threatened all infrastructure used by the U.S. military in the region.
But Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, told the AP that his government’s efforts to broker a ceasefire are “right on track” after Islamabad last week said that it would soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.
Mediators from Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt were working to bring the U.S. and Iran to the negotiating table, according to two regional officials.
The proposed compromise includes a cessation of hostilities to allow a diplomatic settlement, according to a regional official involved in the efforts and a Gulf diplomat briefed on the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door diplomacy.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, issued a veiled threat late Friday to disrupt traffic through a second strategic waterway in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb.
The strait, 32 kilometers (20 miles) wide, links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. More than a tenth of seaborne global oil and a quarter of container ships pass through it.
“Which countries and companies account for the highest transit volumes through the strait?” Qalibaf wrote.
More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began.
In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel and 13 U.S. service members have been killed. In Lebanon, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 1 million people have been displaced. Ten Israeli soldiers have died there.
This report has been corrected to show that Borealis is an Austrian company and not Australian.
Metz reported from Jerusalem and Magdy from Cairo. Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.
Members of Lebanon's General Security stand at the Masnaa border crossing in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A man, who fled Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon with his family, sleeps in his car used as shelter, along a seaside promenade in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Followers of Iraq's Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr chant slogans as they wave national Iraqi flag during a protest against U.S. and Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran, in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A bedroom is damaged in a building struck in an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Pedetrians walk by a destroyed building within the Grand Hosseiniyeh, with the mosque visible in the background, which officials at the site say was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes Tuesday, in Zanjan, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Police officers and their horses take cover in an underground parking garage as sirens warn of an incoming missile fired from Yemen in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)
A man looks at a destroyed building within the Grand Hosseiniyeh complex that officials say was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes Tuesday in Zanjan, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
