Best Nano Banana Prompts to Copy in 2026
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 5 prompts are free instantly, no signup needed. Hand-curated and tested by the AI Academy team.
Best Nano Banana Prompts to Start
5 promptsSelfie to Studio Headshot
1/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana turns your uploaded selfie into a studio headshot in a tailored blazer on a grey backdrop, with three-point light and your exact face. Upload the selfie, then keep the crop only if age, skin tone, and features still match.
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.
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
2/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana builds a photoreal 1/7 scale figurine of you on a clear acrylic base, with a packaging box and a 3D-modeling screen behind it. Check the likeness on the figure and the box art, then save the desk mockup or generate again.
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.
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
3/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana restores a damaged family photo by removing scratches, creases, and dust, repairing tears, and adding period-accurate color without changing faces or clothes. Compare it to the scan, then keep the repair only if everyone still looks like themselves.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana places your product on a beige pedestal with studio light, a soft shadow, and space above for copy, while keeping shape, label, and colors exact. Use the hero on a catalog or ad after you confirm the label did not drift.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana restyles you as a candid Polaroid in a cozy 1990s living room, with a thick white border, faded colors, and a soft flash. Keep the square if your face is unchanged, then share the snapshot.
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.
Pro tip: Ask for 'slight overexposure from the flash' so the Polaroid reads as authentic instant film instead of a heavy color filter.
Conversational Editing Prompts
5 promptsKeep Everything, Change One Thing
6/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana keeps you, the pose, outfit, and lighting and only swaps the cluttered background for a softly blurred modern home office. Check the blend at the edges, then keep the take that still reads as one photograph.
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.
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
7/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana keeps your face, pose, and background and swaps the t-shirt for a charcoal blazer over a white shirt, with folds that match the existing light. Download it if the fabric looks worn, not pasted on.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana removes a stranger and a road sign from your photo and fills those spots to match perspective and light, leaving you untouched. Inspect the fill, then save the cleaned travel shot.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana keeps the portrait composition and only changes the light to golden-hour side light from the left with a soft hair rim. Keep the moodier take if face and outfit stayed the same.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana applies a teal-and-orange film grade with cooler shadows, warmer skin, lifted blacks, and light grain, leaving composition alone. Ask for warmer or less grain in the same chat if you want another pass.
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.
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 promptsSame Character, New Scene
11/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana puts the same person from your photo in a coffee shop by a window with a mug, keeping face, hair, and outfit consistent. Use the new scene if the likeness held, or rerun it for a different setting.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana merges two selfies into one couple portrait in a sunlit park at golden hour, matching light and skin so it looks like one photo. Check both faces, then keep the warm 3:4 frame.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana drops your exact product onto the wooden coffee table in a living-room photo, matching perspective, light, and shadows. Confirm label and colors, then use the lifestyle frame in an ad.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana re-renders your first photo in the palette, brushwork, and mood of a second reference while keeping identity and pose. Keep the stylized take if you still recognize the subject.
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.
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
15/21✨ What it does
Nano Banana builds a 4-pose mascot sheet on white: front, side, waving, and sitting, with the same design and colors in a flat modern style. Save the row if proportions stayed identical across poses.
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.
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✨ What it does
Nano Banana makes a 3-panel storyboard of the same character waking, working with coffee, then closing the laptop at sunset. Check face, hair, and outfit across panels, then use the strip in a story post.
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.
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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