Nano Banana: AI image editor

What is Nano Banana?

Nano Banana is a fast and capable AI image editor and generation model built on the Gemini 2.5 Flash architecture. This AI image editor creates new visuals from text inputs and precisely modifies existing images. It allows users to quickly generate simple graphics, create brand assets, and make conversational edits to photos.

Features & Benefits

• Perform natural language edits – Use simple text commands to make specific changes to an image, such as removing objects or adjusting a pose.
• Maintain subject consistency – Keep the appearance of a person, mascot, or object the same across multiple generated images or scenes.
• Blend multiple images – Seamlessly merge multiple input images or source designs into one cohesive output image.
• Leverage world knowledge – Use the model’s understanding of real-world concepts for more contextually accurate and factual images, like diagrams.
• Generate standard resolution images – Produce visuals quickly at a common resolution, such as 1024×1024 pixels.
• Include digital watermarking – Every output image contains an invisible SynthID watermark to identify it as AI-generated content.

Nano Banana Platforms

Gemini App, Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI

Nano Banana Tasks

• Edit photos with AI using simple text commands.
• Create consistent brand assets with the AI.
• Generate storyboards with recurring characters using AI image image generator.
• Insert products into lifestyle photos using the AI photo editor.
• Change the background of a portrait with a single prompt.
• Make custom graphics for social media quickly.

Real-world applications

A small business owner may use this AI image editor to quickly create a series of marketing visuals for a holiday sale. They can take one high-quality image of their main product and use a text prompt to place it into twenty different themed backgrounds, such as a snowy scene or a summer beach. The tool’s consistency feature ensures the product looks identical in all the new environments, avoiding the need for twenty separate product shoots.

A social media manager might use the AI image generator feature to create daily content featuring a brand mascot. They can upload the original mascot image and ask the tool to generate scenes of the mascot doing different activities, like holding a coffee cup or waving from a balcony. This allows them to maintain a strong, recognizable visual identity across all platforms with very little design effort.

A casual user might use the tool as an AI photo editor to fix personal photographs. They could upload a family picture and use a prompt like “remove the person in the background” or “blur the street signs.” The tool performs the specific edit based on the natural language instruction, making complex photo corrections accessible to anyone.

You can use Nano Banana directly within Gemini or you can see our list of AI tools powered by Nano Banana.