Nano Banana Prompts: 25 Copy-Paste Examples (2026).

The Nano Banana prompts that work best read like instructions to a human photo editor: name the subject, say exactly what should change, and say exactly what must stay the same. That last part is the trick most people miss. Nano Banana — the viral nickname for Google's Gemini-family image model — is an editor first and a generator second, so a line like "keep the face exactly the same" does more for your results than any pile of style keywords. Below are 25 copy-paste nano banana prompt examples grouped by use case. Swap the bracketed parts, run them, and iterate one change at a time.

What Nano Banana is actually good at

Every model has a personality. Nano Banana's is photorealism plus identity preservation — it edits a photo of you and the result still looks like you. That single strength explains everything it went viral for. Play to it:

• Photo edits — background swaps, object removal, relighting, outfit changes on a photo you upload.
• Identity-preserving portraits— turn a casual selfie into a headshot or editorial portrait without your face drifting into a stranger's.
• Product shots — drop a phone photo of your product into a clean studio or lifestyle scene with matching shadows.
• Restyling— the figurine trend, brick-minifigure boxes, yearbook portraits, and every other "turn me into X" format you have seen on social feeds.

It is weaker at dense abstract art and very long text passages. For those, a model like FLUX or Ideogram is often the better pick — and if you want pure text-to-image prompting, our FLUX prompts guide covers that style.

How these prompts are written

Each prompt below is a full sentence, not keyword soup, because Gemini-family models parse natural language well. Prompts that start with "Take this photo" or "Edit this photo" assume you upload an image first. If you arrived here searching for a Gemini AI photo prompt, these all work in any Gemini-family image model — Nano Banana is the same thing under a friendlier name.

Portrait & headshot prompts

1. Take this photo of [your subject] and turn it into a clean corporate headshot: navy blazer over a white shirt, soft studio key light, plain light-grey background, sharp focus on the eyes — keep the face, hairstyle, and skin tone exactly the same.
2. Edit this selfie into a natural outdoor portrait of [your subject] on a tree-lined street at golden hour, soft warm backlight, shallow depth of field, relaxed genuine smile, no change to any facial features.
3. Convert this photo into a black-and-white editorial portrait of [your subject] with dramatic side lighting, a dark background, fine film grain, and a confident expression — preserve the identity exactly.
4. Restyle this picture as a magazine-cover portrait of [your subject] in a tailored [color] suit against a deep red studio backdrop, single softbox from the left, subtle rim light on the shoulders, face unchanged.
5. Turn this casual photo into a creator profile picture of [your subject]: chest-up crop, moody teal-and-orange color grade, blurred neon city background, crisp detail on the face, same person, same features.

Viral trend style prompts

1. Create a 1/7-scale collectible figurine of [your subject] standing on a round clear acrylic base on a computer desk, with its retail packaging box behind it showing character artwork, realistic studio product lighting.
2. Turn this photo into a vintage instant-film snapshot of [your subject], harsh direct flash against a plain wall, slight motion blur, classic white instant-photo frame, and a handwritten caption at the bottom that reads "[your caption]".
3. Reimagine [your subject] as a character from a 3D animated family film: big expressive eyes, soft global illumination, stylized hair, warm friendly smile — keep the likeness clearly recognizable.
4. Turn [your subject] into a plastic brick-style minifigure sealed inside a blister-pack toy box, with three small accessories that match their hobbies, bright studio toy-photography lighting, box art in their favorite color.
5. Edit this photo into a 1990s high-school yearbook portrait of [your subject]: era-accurate haircut, laser-beam studio backdrop, soft focus, slightly faded scanned-print texture.

Product photography prompts

1. Take this photo of [your product] and replace the background with a sunlit marble countertop near a window, soft natural shadows that match the new light direction — keep the product, label, and colors pixel-accurate.
2. Place [your product] on a wet black slate surface with light mist rolling across it, a single dramatic spotlight from above, dark background, sharp reflections under the product.
3. Photograph [your product] floating above a matte pastel podium with a soft drop shadow below, smooth gradient background in [brand color], minimal e-commerce hero-shot style.
4. Build a lifestyle scene around this photo of [your product]: a bright morning kitchen counter with coffee, linen napkin, and out-of-focus plants behind it, the product in sharp focus and unmodified.
5. Arrange [your product] in a flat lay shot from directly above on warm beige paper, surrounded by its ingredients or accessories in a neat grid, soft even daylight, small natural shadows.

If product work is your main use case, the breakdown in how to make product photos with AI goes deeper on scene-building.

Photo restoration & edit prompts

1. Restore this old photograph: remove scratches, dust, and creases, repair the faded areas, and gently sharpen facial details — do not change the people, clothing, pose, or expression, and do not invent new details.
2. Colorize this black-and-white photo with realistic, slightly muted period-accurate colors, natural skin tones, and no change to any faces or composition.
3. Remove the [unwanted object] from the background of this photo and rebuild the area behind it naturally, matching the lighting, perspective, and grain of the rest of the image.
4. Relight this photo so it looks like it was taken at golden hour: warm low sun from the left, long soft shadows, gentle glow on the skin — keep every object and person exactly where they are.
5. Change the outfit in this photo to [new outfit] with realistic fabric folds and accurate fit, keeping the face, pose, hands, and background completely untouched.

Creative & fun prompts

1. Paint [your pet] as a 17th-century royal portrait in oil: velvet robe, lace collar, ornate gold frame, dark moody background, visible brushstrokes and cracked-varnish texture.
2. Turn [your subject] into a tiny isometric diorama of their daily life inside a cube-shaped room, miniature furniture, warm dollhouse lighting, soft tilt-shift depth of field.
3. Create a sheet of six die-cut glossy stickers of [your subject] with different expressions — happy, surprised, sleepy, laughing, annoyed, and waving — bold outlines, white border, flat pastel background.
4. Recreate [your subject] as a hand-knitted wool figure photographed on a wooden table, with visible yarn stitches, button eyes, and soft window light from the right.
5. Design a cinematic action-movie poster starring [your subject], with dramatic backlighting, a city skyline at dusk behind them, and large title text that reads "[your title]" at the bottom.

Tips for better Nano Banana results

• Edit, do not describe. If a real photo exists, upload it and give instructions. An edit of your actual product or face beats a from-scratch generation almost every time.
• Say what stays the same."Keep the face exactly the same" or "keep the label pixel-accurate" is the highest-value line in any nano banana prompt. Without it, the model feels free to redraw things you cared about.
• One change per turn. Swap the background first, then change the outfit, then relight. Stacking three edits in one prompt is how faces drift and labels smear.
• Quote exact text. For captions, posters, and packaging, put the exact words in quotation marks and keep them short.
• Anchor realism with light, not adjectives."Soft window light from the right" pushes the model toward a believable photo far harder than the word "realistic."
• Start from a sharp source. A blurry 400px upload caps your output quality no matter how good the prompt is.

Where to run these prompts

The Gemini app runs Nano Banana for free with daily limits, which is fine for casual use. If you are doing this regularly — headshots for a team, product shots for a store, a batch of trend posts — getvivix carries Nano Banana-class Gemini image models alongside 100+ other image, video, and audio models in one studio. Every model card shows its exact credit cost before you run it, a free account takes seconds with no card and comes with 30 credits plus 30 more dropped daily, and nothing gets a watermark on any tier. You can also A/B the same prompt against FLUX, Seedream, or Ideogram in the same window and keep whichever model wins — browse the full lineup on the models page.

Ready to try them? Paste any prompt above into the getvivix AI image generator or open the full Studio, upload a photo, and run your first edit on free credits — no card, no watermark.