Nano Banana in Gemini App: 10 prompts you need to try

Google has released a thrilling update to the Gemini app, including the most advanced image editing AI model yet. It is called "Nano Banana", and users can transform, remix, and modify their images. 

The Gemini app has limitless creative potential, from turning animals into video game characters to creating full comic strips.

10 Nano Banana prompts

To provide an idea of the possibilities, Gadinsider have put together 10 examples of Google Gemini image editing, including the prompts used, so you can try them too.

Cat as video game character

Prompt: 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.

Tea party with your younger self

Prompt: 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.

Turn an Island into fantasy map

Prompt: Turn this photo into a map of a stylised 3D world for a fantasy game. Include a village and harbour.

Pencil drawing effect

Prompt: Turn this photo into a pencil drawing.

Gourmet dish from ingredients

Prompt:  Turn these ingredients into a refined, delicious-looking dessert, inspired by these ingredients. Plate it as if it were a dish at a 5-star avant-garde restaurant

Prompt: Turn these scissors into a realistic-looking fantasy character in a movie about elves and fairies.

3D pet figurine

Prompt: Create a realistic-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.

Generate 9-panel comic

Prompt: Create a riveting epic 9-part story with 9 images with these two protagonists and their adventures as secret superheroes. The story is thrilling throughout with emotional highs and lows and ends on a great twist and high note. Do not include any words or text on the images, but tell the story purely through the imagery itself.

Tennis ball dress transformation

Prompt: Change this person's dress to be made out of tennis balls.

Tropical Island house makeover

Prompt: Transform this house into a vibrant tropical island design. Replace the roof with thatch and add bamboo structural elements. Surround it with lush, colourful tropical plants and palm trees.