Forget the Nano Banana AI saree trend, try these 10 new Gemini image-editing tricks instead | Technology News

Google launched its new AI image-editing model Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, dubbed as ‘Nano Banana’, last month. Since then, the internet has become obsessed with uploading their real-life images and transforming them into various styles with the help of the AI feature.
For instance, social media feeds are flooded with Nano Banana-edited pictures of people taking selfies with everyone from Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan to Tesla boss Elon Musk. Most recently, the viral Nano Banana AI saree trend has got people retouching their regular pictures into an airbrushed, flawless version of themselves clad in sarees.
No matter the trend, it appears that users are unable to get over Google’s Nano Banana AI feature easily. But there is a lot more to the AI image-editing model.
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In a recent blog post, Google has laid out specific ways you can try out its new native AI image-editing feature in the Gemini app. “This update gives you more control than ever to create the perfect picture. You can keep a person or pet consent across edits, blend multiple photos together, alter parts of an image while keeping the rest the same and apply the style from one picture’s object to another — all while preserving important details of the original,” the search giant said.

Here are 10 dinct prompts you can try using Google Gemini’s new Nano Banana image-editing model:
– Video game character: “Recreate this cat as a 16-bit video game character, and place the character in a level of a 2D 16-bit platform video game.”
– Portrait blend: “Here’s a picture of me as an adult. Create a photo of me as an adult sitting with myself as a child in a playroom having a tea party together.”Story continues below this ad
– Fantasy map: “Turn this photo into a map of a stylized 3D world for a fantasy game. Include a village and harbor.”
– Pencil sketch: “Turn this photo into a pencil drawing.”
– Food art: “Turn these ingredients into a refined delicious-looking dessert, inspired these ingredients. Plate it as if it were a dish at a 5-star avant-garde restaurant.”

– Anthropomorphism: “Turn these scissors into a realic-looking fantasy character in a movie about elves and fairies.”
– Miniature 3D model: “Create a realic-looking small 3D model of this dog. Place the model on a desk next to birthday packaging that makes it look like someone unwrapped the model as a gift.”Story continues below this ad
– Visual storytelling: “Create a riveting epic 9 part story with 9 images with these two protagons and their adventures as secret superheroes. The story is thrilling throughout with emotional highs and lows and ending on a great tw and high note. Do not include any words or text on the images but tell the story purely through the imagery itself.”
– Clothes-swapping: “Change this person’s dress to be made out of tennis balls.”
– Architectural makeovers: “Transform this house into a vibrant tropical island design. Replace the roof with thatch and add bamboo structural elements. Surround it with lush, colorful tropical plants and palm trees.”
The new native image-editing feature in the Gemini app can be used to generate or edit up to 100 images per day for free. However, Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use Nano Banana to generate or edit 1,000 images.
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