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Best Nano Banana Prompts to Copy in 2026

21 copy-paste prompts

Nano Banana is Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model — famous for precise conversational editing, locked-in character consistency, and multi-image fusion. These prompts show off exactly what it does best.

In short: This page contains 21 copy-paste ready prompts, organized into 4 categories with a description and pro tip for each. The first 15 prompts are free instantly — no signup needed. Hand-curated and tested by the AI Academy team.

By Louis Corneloup · Founder, Techpresso

Last updated May 15, 2026·Hand-curated & tested by the AI Academy team

Best Nano Banana Prompts to Start

5 prompts

Selfie to Studio Headshot

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Using my uploaded selfie, create a professional studio headshot. Dress the person in a tailored blazer against a neutral grey backdrop with soft three-point lighting and a catchlight in the eyes. Keep my exact facial features, age, and skin tone. Sharp focus, shallow depth of field, head-and-shoulders crop, 4:5 portrait, photorealistic.

The simplest high-value Nano Banana use: a polished headshot from one phone photo. A solid first prompt to learn how strongly it preserves your likeness.

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Pro tip: Always restate 'keep my exact facial features, age, and skin tone' — Nano Banana otherwise tends to beautify and slim faces automatically.

1/7 Scale Collectible Figurine

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Turn my uploaded photo into a realistic 1/7 scale collectible figurine of the person, standing on a round transparent acrylic base on a desk. Beside it, show a toy packaging box printed with my photo as box art, and a computer screen in the background displaying the 3D modeling process. Photorealistic, soft studio lighting, shallow depth of field.

The viral figurine trend that made Nano Banana famous. Produces a desk-toy mockup with packaging and a modeling screen from a single selfie.

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Pro tip: If the figure's face slips, follow up with 'keep the face identical to my uploaded photo' rather than regenerating — editing in place keeps the rest of the scene.

Old Photo Restoration

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Restore this old damaged family photo. Remove scratches, creases, and dust, repair torn areas, gently sharpen the faces, and add realistic period-accurate color. Do not change anyone's features, clothing, or the composition — only repair and colorize. High-resolution, natural skin tones.

Repairs and colorizes scanned vintage prints while keeping everyone's real likeness. One of the most requested Nano Banana tasks.

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Pro tip: Explicitly say 'only repair and colorize, do not change features' so it restores rather than reimagining the people.

Clean Product Hero Shot

4/21

Place the product from my uploaded photo on a minimalist circular pedestal against a soft beige seamless backdrop. Add gentle directional studio lighting, a soft shadow, a faint reflection, and clean negative space above for marketing copy. Keep the product's exact shape, label, and colors. Photorealistic e-commerce hero image, 4:5.

Transforms a plain product snapshot into a premium store hero without altering the product. Great for catalogs and ads.

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Pro tip: Request 'clean negative space above for marketing copy' so the layout leaves room for a headline you'll add in design later.

Vintage Polaroid Snapshot

5/21

Create a candid retro Polaroid-style photo of the person in my uploaded image, standing in a cozy 1990s living room with warm tungsten lighting and slight motion blur. Frame it as instant film with a thick white border, faded colors, and a soft flash. Keep my facial features exactly the same. Square 1:1.

A nostalgic instant-film snapshot effect that feels candid rather than studio-perfect — a great low-effort first edit.

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Pro tip: Ask for 'slight overexposure from the flash' so the Polaroid reads as authentic instant film instead of a heavy color filter.

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Conversational Editing Prompts

5 prompts

Keep Everything, Change One Thing

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Keep everything in my uploaded photo exactly the same — same person, pose, outfit, and lighting on the subject — but replace the cluttered background with a clean, softly blurred modern home office. Blend the edges naturally so it reads as a single real photograph.

Demonstrates Nano Banana's signature precise editing: isolate and change a single element while everything else stays untouched.

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Pro tip: 'Keep everything the same but...' is the most reliable editing phrase in Nano Banana — it scopes the change so it doesn't redraw the whole image.

Outfit Swap With Realistic Fabric

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Keep my face, pose, and background exactly the same, but change my t-shirt to a tailored charcoal blazer over a crisp white shirt. Match the new clothing to the existing light direction and add realistic fabric folds and shadows so it looks naturally worn.

Virtual outfit changes that keep identity and scene intact. Useful for previewing a more formal look from a casual photo.

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Pro tip: Naming the light direction and asking for 'realistic fabric folds' stops the new garment from looking flat or pasted on.

Remove Photobombers & Clutter

8/21

In my uploaded photo, remove the stranger walking in the background and the road sign on the left. Fill those areas naturally to match the surrounding scene, perspective, and lighting. Keep the main subject and everything else identical.

Cleans up distractions from travel and event photos with natural fill. Showcases targeted object removal.

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Pro tip: Describe each object with its location ('the road sign on the left') so it removes precisely the right elements.

Relight the Scene

9/21

Keep my uploaded portrait composition and subject exactly the same, but change the lighting to warm golden-hour side light coming from the left, with soft falloff and a gentle rim light on the hair. Preserve the face and outfit; only adjust the lighting and mood.

Re-lights an existing photo to a more flattering or cinematic mood without changing the subject. A subtle but powerful edit.

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Pro tip: Treat lighting as the only variable — say 'only adjust the lighting and mood' so Nano Banana doesn't quietly restyle the whole shot.

Iterative Color Grade

10/21

Apply a cinematic teal-and-orange color grade to my uploaded photo: cooler shadows, warmer skin tones, slightly lifted blacks, and gentle film grain. Keep the composition and subject identical, change only the color and tone.

Adds a film-style grade you can keep refining turn by turn ('a bit warmer', 'less grain') in the same chat.

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Pro tip: Because Nano Banana remembers the conversation, refine grades incrementally with short follow-ups instead of rewriting the full prompt each time.

Character Consistency & Fusion

6 prompts

Same Character, New Scene

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Using the same person from my uploaded photo, create a new image of them sitting in a bustling coffee shop near a window, holding a mug, soft natural daylight, candid moment. Keep their exact face, hairstyle, and outfit consistent with the reference. Photorealistic, 3:4 portrait.

Places a consistent character into entirely new settings — the foundation for storyboards, brand mascots, and content series.

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Pro tip: Keep the same reference image across turns and say 'consistent with the reference' so the character stays recognizable scene to scene.

Two-Selfie Couple Fusion

12/21

Here are two photos: the first is me, the second is my partner. Merge us into one natural couple portrait standing close together in a sunlit park at golden hour. Match lighting and skin tones so it looks like a single real photo. Keep both faces exactly as uploaded. Warm tones, soft bokeh, 3:4.

Combines two separate selfies into one believable couple or friends photo using multi-image fusion.

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Pro tip: Upload both images in one message and label them 'first photo' / 'second photo' so it maps each face to the right person.

Drop a Product Into a Lifestyle Scene

13/21

Combine these two images: the first is my product on a plain background, the second is a cozy living-room scene. Place my exact product naturally on the wooden coffee table in the living room, matching the scene's perspective, lighting, and shadows. Keep the product's shape, label, and colors unchanged. Photorealistic.

Fuses a product cut-out into a real lifestyle environment for ads and social content, preserving the product faithfully.

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Pro tip: Tell it to 'match the scene's perspective and shadows' so the product sits in the room instead of floating on top of it.

Style Transfer From a Reference

14/21

Take the subject and composition of my first uploaded photo and re-render it in the artistic style of the second reference image (its color palette, brushwork, and mood). Preserve the subject's identity and pose, apply only the visual style. High detail.

Applies the look of one image to the content of another — a clean way to get on-brand stylization with consistent subjects.

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Pro tip: Specify which image is content and which is style ('subject from the first, style from the second') to avoid blending them ambiguously.

Consistent Brand Mascot Sheet

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Using my uploaded mascot character, create a 4-pose model sheet on a clean white background: front view, side view, waving, and sitting. Keep the character's exact design, colors, and proportions identical across all four poses. Flat modern illustration style, arranged in a single row.

Generates a turnaround-style model sheet of one character in consistent poses — ideal for brand assets and game design.

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Pro tip: Ask for all poses in a single image so they share lighting and proportions, then crop them apart afterward.

Storyboard Frame Sequence

16/21

Using the same character from my uploaded photo, create a 3-panel storyboard in one image showing them: 1) waking up and stretching by a window, 2) working at a laptop with coffee, 3) closing the laptop and smiling at sunset. Keep the character's face, hair, and outfit identical across all panels. Consistent warm cinematic lighting, equal-sized panels in a row.

Produces a multi-frame mini-narrative with one consistent character — useful for ads, explainers, and social story posts.

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Pro tip: Number the panels and describe each beat in one prompt so the character and lighting stay continuous across the sequence.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Nano Banana is the nickname for Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model. It powers image generation and editing inside the Gemini app and Google AI Studio, and it became famous for the viral 3D figurine trend, precise photo editing, and strong character consistency.

Yes. 'Nano Banana' and 'Gemini 2.5 Flash Image' refer to the same Google model. You access it through Gemini, so any Nano Banana prompt works directly in the Gemini app or AI Studio by uploading a reference image and typing your instruction.

Its standout strengths are conversational editing ('keep everything the same but change X'), character consistency across multiple images, multi-image fusion and compositing, readable in-image text, and style transfer. Those are exactly the capabilities these prompts are built around.

Upload a clear reference and keep using the same chat. Ask Nano Banana to keep the face, hair, and outfit 'consistent with the reference,' then place that character into new scenes. Because it remembers the conversation, the character stays recognizable from image to image.

Yes — multi-image fusion is a core feature. Upload several images in one message (for example two selfies, or a product plus a scene) and describe how to combine them. Label them as 'the first photo' and 'the second photo' so it maps each element correctly.

It renders short text noticeably better than older diffusion models, which makes it strong for packaging, posters, and icons. Keep the wording short and quote it exactly in your prompt; long passages can still come out imperfect.

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