How to Make & Edit Images with Nano Banana for Beginners

So today I'm going to show you how to create and edit images with Nanobanana, what is currently the best image editing model in the world. So you too can create images like this, or like this, or even like this birthday card that we're going to create in this video in under three minutes. So here's the deal with Nanobanana. It's really simple. One, it's free to use, it works in your browser, you don't need to download anything and you can edit photos like a professional without having to learn Photoshop. That's the big deal here. The only catch, you need a Google account. That's it. So what do you do? You go to gemini.google.com here, you log in with your Google account and we're ready to go. So first up, it can create images. You've probably seen this already, but if I type create an image of a stunning beach in the Maldives, it will create. It took about eight seconds. Beautiful. Now if I go into a new chat here on the left side, here's what I want you to know. This was standard Nanobanana, but they released a version that is even better than that called nanobanana Pro Pro. It's basically even more realistic and can do advanced edits and a lot of text. And the way you access it on a free account is by going down here, clicking on this fast button and changing the model to thinking. With Free Pro you don't need to understand what that means. You just switch it to that mode. And here's my favorite part. You can actually put images of yourself and others and can take them and create something that usually would take hours and deep skills in photo editing software to create. So, so as an example, I'll use a birthday card that I want to create for my friend Gustave. Gustav is actually helping me with filming this video. Hey guys. What up, Gustav? And what I'm going to do in this case is I'm just going to snap a quick image of myself with good lighting, add that into Gemini and then we need one of you. Gustav, come over here. Beautiful. Amazing. So I'll add that in here. You could also upload the image by clicking Add files, Upload Files and then just finding it on your computer like I randomly found this image of young me. Anyway, with these two images in Nano Banana, I'll create a birthday card. All I'll do is say, create an image of a surfing competition trophy, podium and confetti because we both like to surf. I'll add, say, dream team, 30 years of winning on a banner, plus fake career stats that are actually live highlights. Simple. I'll put the prompt below, but you could customize it. As long as you're saying create an image that will use all the images you upload and create something custom. So I'll just send this and let's see what we get here. You can see that it's using nanobanana Pro here because we switched the model to Thinking with Free Pro a second ago. And look at that. That's us. No, it's pretty good. 150 sunsets shared. Great stuff. Honestly, this looks close enough and it would work great. Along with a custom message that I would send to Gustav on his very birthday. The only limitations on this are that on a free account, if you create a few images, you'll have to wait a bit to use it more and more. And also it refuses to work with celebrity faces. As long as you use it for you and your friends, no issue here. And then one last thing, if you wanted to edit this further, you would just tell it. Make the sunset in the image more dramatic. As long as you're referring to the image, you can make any edits imaginable. Amazing. And there you go. That's how you go from a blank screen to an amazing custom birthday card in under three minutes. Subscribe for more videos like this. And with that being said, my name is Igor Pagani and I will see you very soon.