00:00People are doing some absolutely wild things with the new Google image model that everybody's been calling nano banana

00:06Things like the ability to do this or the ability to completely change the character that you're seeing on the screen like I'm doing right now

00:12So, in this video, I want to give you a deep dive breakdown of all of the coolest ways I've seen people using Nano Banana

00:21We've got like 50 different use cases of Nano Banana

00:24This is going to be a rapidfire video where I just rattle off tons of different ways to use it

00:27And the idea being that this gets your creative juices flowing and you really get a grasp of how powerful this model is and how many different things you can do with it

00:38Now, before I get into it, I do want to share a quick resource that I think a lot of people will find helpful

00:42Google itself actually put out a prompting guide to show you how to get the best results out of Nano Banana

00:47I will make sure it's linked up below, but when you're on this page here, click on image editing

00:52They do give you some prompts for image generation, but it's not good at image generation

00:56It's amazing at image editing though

00:58Scroll down and you'll see a whole bunch of prompts for generating images and we will play with some of those throughout this video

01:07I've made several videos where I talk about Nano Banana

01:09I don't want to get too deep into how to use it

01:13My favorite place to use it right now is through Google's AI Studio, but you can also use it over on Gemini

01:18You can use it in Higsfield

01:20You can use it in Crea

01:21You can use it in Freepic

01:21You can use it in Adobe Firefly

01:23Pretty much all the platforms have this new model in it, but I'm going to use Google AI Studio for these examples

01:30It's really good at taking images of two different people and blending them together

01:33Like this example of Billy Isish, Michael Jackson, and then a selfie of the two of them together

01:39If I give it an image of myself and an image of Keano Reeves and say, "Put these two people together during a fancy gala taking a selfie together," I get this image

01:46I don't know why it made us holding hands, but it did what I asked for

01:52It's also really good at removing people from images if there's someone in the image that you don't want there

01:58If I take this image that I took in Hawaii of all the sea turtles on the beach, but I want to get rid of all the people in the background, I can give it the prompt remove all the people in the background

02:10Upload my image

02:10I get an image back that's the exact same image, but with all of the people removed

02:14It's really good at removing objects as well

02:16Here's an image I took in Colorado recently, but I want to get rid of the traffic cone and the construction sign here

02:24Google's prompting guide actually has instructions for this

02:25So, I'm going to go ahead and use the prompt that they created here and use that on my image using the provided image of Colorado

02:35Please remove the traffic cone and construction sign from the scene

02:39Ensure the change is description of how the change should integrate

02:44I'm just going to remove that

02:46I think it will know to just remove these things

02:48And we can run it

02:50And we get an image back with those elements removed

02:51Let's take a closer look

02:54You can see everything's still in there, but it removed the cone and the little traffic sign

02:57The rest of the image stayed exactly the same

02:59It's great at replacing objects

03:01Here's an image of me looking at my phone

03:02If I tell it to replace the phone in the person's hand with a banana, well, we get me holding a banana

03:08I can change the location of where the photo was taken

03:12So, let's go ahead and copy this image

03:14Paste it back down into our prompt box here and say, put this person holding a banana in a monkey enclosure at the zoo

03:20And here I am holding a banana inside the monkey enclosure at the zoo

03:24I can rotate the person in the image

03:26Let's take our image from right here

03:28Copy our image, paste the image back into our prompt box, and give it the prompt

03:32Change the camera angle so that it's looking at this person from the side

03:36And we get an image of myself looking at a banana from the side view

03:41and it's super accurate

03:41Maybe you need a professional headsh shot, but all you have is an image you took quickly on your computer

03:48Toss that image into Nana Banana

03:50Give it the prompt, make a professional studio quality headsh shot of this person and looking pretty sharp

03:57Pretty pretty pretty good

03:57Want a full body version of the image? Just tell it create a full body professional photo of this person

04:04A few seconds later, it did just that

04:06Now, it does lose quality a little bit, especially when like the head gets a little bit smaller, so you probably want to run it through an upscaler, but it's totally capable of doing what we asked it to

04:15Maybe you want to see how you'd look in a specific outfit, like maybe this outfit could look cool on me

04:20Upload an image of yourself and then upload an image of the outfit that you want to put on

04:24Google gives us a very specific prompt that works well for this, so let's go ahead and use it

04:30Create a new image by combining the elements from the provided images

04:34Take the person from image one and give them the outfit from image two

04:42The final image should be the person in the first image wearing the clothes of the person in the second

04:45And just like that, I know what I would look like inside of this outfit

04:48Want to try a different hairstyle? Upload an image of yourself

04:52Upload an image of the hairstyle you want to try

04:53Let's use our same prompt again and just tweak it a little bit to get it to add the hairstyle

05:00We'll give it this prompt here

05:01And well, it tried its best

05:01You can also do the same thing by just giving the original image and giving it a text prompt of what you want, like give this person a colorful mohawk

05:10And honestly, I actually think it kind of did a better job than when I combined the two images

05:15You can have it change the color of objects on an image

05:17Like, let's say I want to change the color of this green chair to purple

05:21We'll pull in the image, give it the prompt, change the color of the green chair in the foreground to a purple chair

05:27And without changing anything else in the image, we have a purple chair instead of a green chair

05:34It can also colorize images

05:36Here's a black and white image I found online

05:38Toss it in

05:38Give it the prompt

05:40Colorize this image

05:407.8 seconds later, we have a perfectly colorized version of this image

05:46Let's take this exact image, paste it back into the prompt box, and say, make the colors more vibrant, colorful, and modern

05:529 seconds later, we have an even more colorful version of the same image

05:56You can also change the perspective on an image

06:00Let's take our image here and give it the prompt, give me the view of this from above looking down on the two women

06:06And 9 seconds later, we have this image from a different angle looking at these two women

06:10And if we look back at our original image, I mean, they're in the same pose and everything, just a different angle on it

06:17Here's another example from Henry Derez here where they did it with a cartoon scene

06:21and they took this input image, asked it to change the perspective looking down, and it gave it this image

06:26And you can see it's the same room, same color, same person, just a different perspective

06:32Want to make a newer image look older? Give it a prompt like this

06:34Change this photo to an image that looks like it was taken in the 1940s

06:38Change the man's outfit to look similar to what a man from that era would wear

06:41A few seconds later, we get a black and white image with some actual like old grainy effects on it and me wearing a completely different outfit

06:50more representative of the era

06:52And here's what it did for the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s

06:59Probably pretty accurate, although I think they'd be in color for a few of these eras

07:02Don't know why it made them black and white, but I think it got the clothing bright for the era

07:06Want to put yourself on a magazine cover? Use a prompt like, "Put this person on the cover of People magazine sexiest man alive issue." And the nano banana obliges

07:15Apparently, if I add to the prompt, make him posing for the camera in a sexy way

07:19This is my sexy pose

07:22Also, ignore the fact that it actually says sexist man alive

07:24You can use this same technique to make movie posters

07:27I love that I look kind of like Iron Man, but only from the waist up

07:31And to make wanted posters

07:33I didn't tell it to say this, but it says alias the grumpy gurup

07:38And I'm wanted for crimes against sunshine and positive vibes

07:41Reward a coffee and some kind words

07:43I didn't tell the model to do that

07:46You can also change the style of an image like you do with the OpenAI image model

07:50Just give it a prompt like change the style of this image to look like a scene from Studio Giblly movie and it'll make an image that looks somewhat similar to a Studio Gibli style image

07:59But what works even better is when you transfer the style from another image

08:04So if I give it this same original image, give it a screenshot from a Studio Giblly movie, and then we can give it the prompt here that Google suggests to use, paste it in, transform the provided photograph of the two people into the artistic style of Studio Gibli, preserve the original composition, but render it with the style of image, too

08:26And we get something that looks much closer to what you'd expect from a Studio Giblly style shot

08:33The same technique also works if you give it a GTA 5 image and tell it to style it that way

08:38Another really cool use case that I came across from Mad Pencil here was styling just a portion of the image

08:45You could see she gave it this original image here, asked it to just make the ramen bowl and ramen look like 2D whimsical handdrawn anime

08:51And this was the final result

08:53Everything else stayed the same, but just the bowl of ramen turned into a cartoon

08:58You could use it to add text to an image

09:02Add the text subscribe to Matt Wolf in the background

09:04The text should be behind the person in the photo

09:05Here's what that created

09:07Pretty basic

09:07I asked it to make the text in the image much larger and make it appear like the person's in front of the text

09:13And well, it just gave me back the same image

09:16And I've tried this a few times now off camera and kept getting the same thing

09:23So, I guess manipulating text like that is still sort of a blind spot for this model

09:28probably something I would still want to do in like a Photoshop or Canva

09:32Now, I've seen other examples where people were able to change the text on billboards

09:36I was just having an issue a second ago with text, but let's see what happens when I try this

09:39Change the text on the billboard that says billboard mockup to text that says check out futuretools.io

09:45And would you look at that? It actually nailed it the first time

09:49Let's take a closer look here

09:49And everything's spelled right

09:51It left the rest of the text the same as it was

09:53So, sometimes working with text works really well

09:57And for whatever reason, sometimes it's a little wonky

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11:06Now, let's get back to it

11:07Another thing it's really good at is character consistency

11:09So, if you're trying to create a whole bunch of shots for like a AI generated film or something like that, but you want the character to look the same in every single shot, this works beautifully for that

11:19So, I went over to Leonardo, created this little green alien character

11:22I think I like this one here

11:25So, let's use this character

11:25Now, if we pull in our character, this is our reference image

11:28And if we use this every time, we should get the same character every time

11:32Make the character in this image riding a bike

11:34We've got our little green dude riding a bike

11:37Here's our character shooting a basketball, our character holding hands with his girlfriend, him dressed up in a nice suit for a fancy dinner, working in a boring desk job that he hates, and finally getting a selfie with his biggest fan

11:50But as you can see, we've got character consistency in all of these images

11:55There's no doubt that that's the same character every single time

11:59I also learned from Jared Lou here that you can actually annotate images

12:03Give it an image and actually put the prompt that you want to happen directly inside the image

12:07In this example, he used Canva, gave it a background image of like a living room, gave it a picture of a woman, said woman standing here, white rug on the ground, man sitting on sofa, plant in the corner, and then literally gave it the prompt, complete the prompts in the image

12:21That was the whole prompt

12:23And here was the output image

12:25Now, there is a limit to how many images you can upload at one time into Nano Banana

12:30But if you want to get a ton of images all into a single prompt, there's a workaround

12:35You can actually go and use something like Canva, toss all the images into a single image and then prompt with that

12:40So I quickly made this sort of collage of a bunch of different items inside of Canva

12:44Now if I upload this image into Google's AI studio and say create an image of a desk that has all of these items neatly organized on top of it, look at what it generated for us

12:55We got our drone, our speaker, our old radio, this glass thing in the background, some giant SD cards, but I mean look at this image

13:03Look at the image I made in Canva here

13:05It got every single element into this image, including this random old school little glass thing

13:13That to me is really impressive

13:16You can apparently do stick figure annotation

13:18Give it two different images of two different characters and then draw the stick figures of what should be happening in that image

13:24So you can see the person on the right is like jump kicking the person on the left

13:30It should be these two characters

13:32And it generated that exactly

13:32Want to add branding to your products? Upload your logo and say something like, "Generate an image of a t-shirt with this logo on it." And we get a nice t-shirt that has that logo on it

13:42But that's not really that impressive

13:44Let's try create a perfume bottle with this logo on it

13:48The perfume is called essence of future

13:49All right, now we're getting somewhere

13:52This is looking a little more impressive

13:53Now I want to have like a model holding out this bottle

13:58So I'll copy the new image here

14:00We'll paste it back into our prompt box

14:02Create an image of an Instagram influencer model holding out a bottle of this perfume to the camera

14:05And we got an Instagram influencer holding out essence of future to the camera

14:10And here's my perfume bottle sitting on the beach

14:14If you want to change an existing logo that's already in an image, Punam here shows that you can do that as well

14:20Here's a picture of Sundar with Google behind them, but then they swapped out the image with OpenAI, Microsoft, and even XAI, but the foreground is all the same image

14:29Need a business card made up? Mock up a black business card with this logo on it

14:33Uploaded my Future Tools logo

14:35It should have my name on it, Matt Wolf, as well as our URL

14:37Add additional stylized elements to make the business card look professional

14:42And well, here's the new business card

14:43It actually looks pretty clean

14:46I didn't really give it a whole lot of other details, but it add all these like style elements to it to make it look nice

14:54Need a website mockup? Give it a prompt like mockup a landing page for a site called Future Tools

14:58Use the logo in the image provided

14:59The site should be tech themed and focused on promoting the latest AI technology

15:02And I gave it my logo

15:04And here's the landing page mockup it gave me

15:07Honestly, not too horrible

15:10It's not amazing, but it could give you a good idea for like a color scheme to go with

15:14I don't really like how this sidebar is so tight to the image down here

15:18But it did a pretty decent job of making something that looks interesting and quite honestly not too far off from what my site already looks like

15:25Just go to futuretools.io io

15:27O, if you need proof, need to create an online banner ad to promote your product, like for instance, your latest fragrance

15:32Create a banner ad that promotes the fragrance Essence of Future

15:36Be sure to use the provided image within the banner ad

15:40Here's the banner ad it gave us

15:40Essence of Future

15:42Unlock tomorrow's scent

15:42Shop now

15:44It's a good ad

15:44It could do YouTube thumbnails as well, although I personally haven't been too impressed with the thumbnails it created

15:50It can do it for you and get a pretty close starting point, I guess

15:55If I give it the prompt, create a clickbay YouTube thumbnail that includes the person in the image provided, they should be giving a surprised face

16:02The thumbnail should be for a video about how to use AI to make wild images

16:06And here's the thumbnail it created

16:09And it's honestly not horrible

16:11It might actually work

16:14Definitely not up to my quality standards, but again, actually a little bit better than I thought it was going to do

16:19Nano Banana can help you with landscape design

16:22This image that you're seeing on my screen is an actual image of my backyard

16:26We actually just had a bunch of construction done to build this giant wall

16:30And in the process, all of our landscaping was destroyed to bring in all the heavy machines

16:34So, we have like this dirt back lot right now

16:36I took this image into Nano Banana and literally just put beautiful landscaping on this yard

16:43And here's the image that it gave back

16:45And I can go give this to like a designer now and say, "Hey, help me make my yard look like this if I want." This is an actual image of my pool area on my property

16:55Again, destroyed by recent work that we had done

17:00I asked it to redesign it and make it look prettier

17:03And here's what it designed

17:05And it looks pretty good, honestly

17:08Apparently, these flowers grow straight out of my wall

17:10But other than that, it's a really decent look to it

17:14This can also be used to redesign what's going on inside of an interior room as well

17:19Jacqueline Consleman here shows off an example where she gave it this image and actually circled an area on her wall and said, "Put wallpaper on this part of the wall and then got a handful of variations of what different wallpapers on just that wall would look like." My buddy Balav showed off this really cool use case

17:35You can upload screenshots of the real world and ask it to annotate stuff for you

17:39Here's the actual prompt

17:41You are a location-based AR experience generator

17:43highlight and then you know include a point of interest in this image and annotate the relevant information about it

17:48Here's an example of what it did with the Transame pyramid in San Francisco, the San Francisco Ferry Building, the Palace of Fine Arts, and another angle on the Palace of Fine Arts

17:59I actually tried this one myself in a previous video with Petco Park, and it actually highlighted Petco Park downtown here

18:06Simon here showed off that you can give it a prompt like, "What does the red arrow see?" give it an image like this of the San Francisco Bay and just point a red arrow and it gives you an angle of what it would see from the red arrow

18:19Now, I'm sure it's not 100% accurate

18:21I I don't know if this is exactly what you would see in the background, but pretty dang close and pretty dang impressive

18:26This was another one I had to test myself

18:30So, I did it with Petco Park again

18:30Give me an image of the ground view from the perspective of the red star

18:34I gave it this image of Petco Park with the red star right here and it gave me back a perspective of what it could look like from that position

18:41Now, I know from experience and knowing downtown San Diego very well that this isn't quite right, but it is pretty close

18:48A lot of people have been doing these really cool isometric images of buildings as well

18:55Harath here gave it this image and gave it the prompt make image daytime and isometric temple only

19:00and it gave them back this isometric image

19:03Like super impressive

19:05Another example from Ilia here

19:07Make image daytime and isometric

19:10This was the image they gave

19:10Here's the isometric they got back

19:12I asked it to make an isometric image of Petco Park

19:17Exclude the surrounding buildings

19:17Gave it an image of Petco Park and got this image back

19:21And it's I think pretty spoton

19:24Here's the real image of Petco Park

19:27Here's the isometric image

19:30Swapping back and forth

19:30I think it pretty much nailed it

19:31If you're into coloring, you can make coloring pages directly from within Nano Banana

19:35Here's an image that I made in Leonardo

19:38Let's toss this in

19:40Give it the prompt, convert this image into a black and white outline for a coloring book

19:43And now I get an image of myself flying on a dragon that I can go and color in

19:48You can also take like a child's drawing and tell it to make it more realistic

19:53I'll just give it the prompt, convert this into an image that looks real

19:56And it kind of made it look sort of like a realworld like painting or like string or something

20:03By tweaking my prompt a little bit and using create a real world photo of a house based on the image uploaded, I get something a little bit closer to what I imagined it would do

20:13Now it still kind of looks like chalk drawing on the sky, but the house actually got more realistic, which I think is kind of a cool aesthetic

20:19I saw from Henry Dere here that it can actually do a pretty decent looking behindthescenes image

20:25So, I'm uploading a shot from one of the Marvel movies and saying, "Create the behindthe-scenes view of them shooting this movie." And here was the original image that I uploaded

20:35And here's the behind-the-scenes shot that it gave us

20:38That is better than I was expecting

20:41Again, the original

20:41We can see they're all in these poses here

20:42And when we jump over, they're all kind of in the same poses

20:46I think Jeremy Rener got deleted

20:49You got the lighting, the green screens, the cameras

20:51Looks good to me

20:53I've also heard that it's very good at making sort of deconstructed views of an image

20:57So, let's try this

20:57Create a deconstructed version of the Apple Vision Pro from this image

21:01And here's what it created

21:03I mean, I have a feeling that that's not really what the inside looks like at all, but the AI model doesn't know what the inside looks like, so it did its best guess

21:11And according to Lewis here, nano banana is really good at creating nano bananas

21:19See, here's an example of a nano banana

21:21Here's some more examples of nano bananas and the word strawberry spelled out using nano bananas

21:25All right

21:25Now, I've given you a pretty exhaustive list of all sorts of things you can do with nano banana and it's probably just scratching the surface

21:34So, if you have ways of using it that I didn't talk about, make sure you leave them in the comments so others could learn from the value that you have to offer

21:42But I'm not done yet because there's some really cool stuff you can do with the nano banana images that you make by pulling them into other tools

21:49So, I want to share some of that really quickly

21:52Remember how earlier we created an isometric view of Petco Park and we saw some examples of other people creating isometric views of places? Well, you could take those images and upload them to a tool that will convert it to a 3D object

22:06Microsoft has what they call Copilot 3D and you can upload the image here

22:10You definitely lose some of the details here, but this is a 3D image of Petco Park sort of

22:16However, the 3D generator that I prefer is actually Meshy.ai

22:21I've always been pretty impressed with what they can generate

22:25Now, Petco Park is well, pretty complex, but we're definitely getting a better 3D model of it than what we were getting out of Microsoft's version

22:33But, you know, still not great

22:36There's still a ways to go with getting finer details on some of these 3D objects

22:40But, a fun thing that you can do with some of those isometric images you make

22:44If it's a fairly basic isometric image, you can pull it into something like Meshy, convert it into a 3D object and then potentially even 3D print it

22:51But again, I think Petco might have just been too complicated of an example

22:55Remember how we made our perfume bottle earlier with the influencer holding it out? Maybe I want to turn that into a video that I use on Instagram or something like that

23:04Well, I can head over to Cling AI, give it the bottle as our first image and the influencer holding it up as our second image, and we get a video that looks like this

23:12I mean, pretty professional looking

23:15I like how you can even see movement of the liquid in the bottle as she's holding it up and moving it around

23:20Remember our deconstructed Apple Vision Pro here? Well, if I jump into Cling, give it our constructed version and our deconstructed version

23:27Here's the end result where we have our version sort of deconstructing itself

23:30I also took our alien friend here, brought him over to Clling and generated a video of him riding a bike

23:38And then I took the image of him playing basketball and animated that

23:42I mean, Clling kind of messed up the movement of the ball a little bit, but you can see how you can get animations with consistent characters that look like the same character in every scene

23:52But what about the intro? How did I do that? I recorded a video of myself saying the intro to the video you're watching right now

23:58And then I took a screen grab of me just presenting that intro

24:02This is just a screen grab from the video

24:04And I said, "Change the background of this image to a lush green rainforest

24:07Leave the person in the foreground the same." And you can see it's the same exact image with the green background

24:14I then took the same screen grab and said, "Change this person in the foreground to look like a Rick and Morty character

24:20Leave the background the same." This was the output, the second character you saw in that intro

24:26And then I said, "Change the person in the foreground to look like a monkey human hybrid

24:28Leave the background the same

24:30And here's the monkey you saw." And then I jumped over to RunwayML here

24:35And with RunwayML, you can actually use their generate video module and then make sure this is set on act two

24:43And in act two, you give it a driving performance

24:46You give it a video

24:47So I just fed it my whole intro video of me giving the intro

24:49And then you just give it an image and it will animate the image saying the things that you said in your driving video

24:56So you can see I got a whole bunch of outputs

25:01I got a video of me giving my intro in front of a green background

25:04People are doing some absolutely wild things with the a version of me as a Rick and Morty character

25:11People are doing some absolutely wild things with and a version of me as a monkey

25:14People are doing some absolutely wild things with the I just sort of spliced those various videos together and that's how you got the intro

25:23Nano Banana plus runway act two

25:26I am absolutely having a blast with Nano Banana

25:28This video was not sponsored by Google whatsoever

25:30I have just been using this tool probably more than any other tool recently

25:35I've been kind of obsessed with using it to make edits to images and then turn them into like videos and things like that

25:43It has been so much fun to use

25:44And I just wanted to make this breakdown and make a pretty exhaustive video of all of the cool ways I've seen it being used so far

25:53And again, it's just scratching the surface

25:55There's so much more you can do with this

25:57And if you've got ideas that I didn't even share, make sure you either comment below this video and let everybody else know or tag me over on Twitter or threads or Instagram or Facebook

26:07I'm kind of on them all now

26:09Tag me with what you created and what was different and let's share the word about the various cool things we can do with Nano Banana

26:16Cuz again, this is so much fun

26:19But that's what I got for you today

26:20I hope you enjoyed it

26:20I hope you learned some new techniques

26:22This is amazing to me that you can use this completely for free right now

26:26Like that blows my mind

26:28It's out there

26:28It's amazing

26:30It's fun

26:30It's free

26:30Go play with it

26:32Thank you so much for tuning in and nerding out with me

26:33This has been a really fun nerd out session

26:35And hopefully I'll see you in the next one

26:38Bye-bye

26:38Thank you so much for nerding out with me today

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