51 ways marketers can use Nano Banana: Google's AI tool explained
Learn how Google's Nano Banana AI transforms marketing workflows-image editing, brand consistency, product photos & creative campaigns at scale.
Google has a knack for dropping world-class AI models with names that sound like rejected ice cream flavours. Enter Nano Banana-the codename for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, and let’s be honest, the only way we’re going to be talking about it from here on. Think of it as Photoshop with rocket fuel, designed for people who don't want to learn Photoshop.
But here's why marketers should care: this isn't just about making your holiday selfies look cinematic. Nano Banana keeps brand consistency across edits, lets you merge product shots with lifestyle photos, refine designs in multiple rounds, and do it all at about four pence an image. Stock libraries, freelancers, and late-night "just one more tweak" emails? Suddenly, they feel prehistoric.
But let’s push past the hype for a moment. There are a number of genuinely useful things inside Nano Banana that we’ve spent the past week testing and exploring.
From LinkedIn headshots to brand mascots, Nano Banana lets you reshape people while keeping them recognisable. Want your CEO's photo in 10 different outfits for the press kit? Or a consistent brand avatar across campaigns? This is personal re-branding on autopilot.
This guide breaks down every way marketers and creatives can use Nano Banana-from personal character edits to ad campaigns, from scene swaps to advanced hybrid workflows.
You can thank us later.
Mostly Matt
Personal Image & Character Transformation
Nano Banana isn't just an AI Photoshop. It's a full-blown identity machine. Here's where marketers (and anyone who's ever hated their LinkedIn headshot) can start having fun.
Transforming Your Appearance for Social Media
Your Instagram selfies don't need another Valencia filter-they need reinvention. Upload a photo, then tell Nano Banana what vibe you're going for:
- "Make me look like I'm having a cool night out."
- "Give me long hair and a leather jacket."
- Or, if you're feeling chaotic: "Tattoo 'futuremedia' across my forehead and 'AI' on my cheek."
Result: a version of you that looks like it has a social life (even if you've been in Google Docs all week).
Generating Professional Headshots
Tired of cropping weddings photos into LinkedIn headshots? Nano Banana's got you. Upload a selfie, then prompt:
- "Turn this into a professional headshot, studio lighting, crisp background, smart suit."
Suddenly, you look like the kind of person recruiters call back. Bonus: you didn't even need to iron a shirt.
Mostly Matt
Trying on Hairstyles, Eye Colours, Facial Hair, or Glasses
The eternal question: "Would I suit bangs?" Nano Banana has the answer. Prompt it with:
- "Show me with a buzz cut."
- "Give me green eyes and stubble."
- "Glasses on, moody professor energy."
It's a try-before-you-dye service, without the regret.
Transforming into Fictional Characters
Ever wanted to see yourself as a South Park extra, a GTA character, or a claymation hero wandering through a forest? Easy. Prompt Nano Banana with:
- "Make me a Minecraft character."
- "Me as an action figure in a box."
Perfect for campaign mascots, parody content, or just mildly disturbing Slack profile pics.
Turning a Pet into a Person
Upload a photo of your dog. Prompt:
- "Show me what my dog would look like as a person."
You will never look at your golden retriever the same way again. (But yes, this is 100% meme material.)
Creating Memes
Want your brand in meme format without a designer's eye-roll? Upload the template, your logo, your face, whatever. Prompt:
- "Merge my face into the meme."
Iterate a few times (Nano Banana isn't always flawless at face merges), and you've got scroll-stopping meme content ready for X, TikTok, or LinkedIn if you're feeling brave.
Transform Scenes with Nano Banana: From Office to Beach in Seconds
Why spend thousands on a photoshoot when you can drop your product-or yourself-into any backdrop? Nano Banana lets marketers create endless lifestyle variations: swap seasons, change lighting, move from boardroom to beach, all while keeping the core subject identical.
Mostly Matt
Adding Company or Celebrities to a Photo
Who needs networking when you've got Nano Banana? Upload your yacht selfie and prompt:
- "Add Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ronaldo, Swift, Beyoncé, and LeBron."
Congratulations-you've just manufactured the most chaotic afterparty of 2025. Perfect for meme campaigns or very confusing LinkedIn posts.
Changing Backgrounds and Clothing in Photos
Photoshoot budget: zero. Options: endless. Keep the pose, change everything else. Prompt:
- "Swap the office for a beach."
- "Put this shirt on him."
Now you're simultaneously working late and summering in Capri.
Fixing Photo Colours
Got a photo that looks like it was shot through a potato? Upload and say:
- "Fix the colour and lighting."
Boom-suddenly it's not embarrassing to put in the campaign deck.
Adding People or Elements to a Scene
Want to jump into someone else's photo or add a product prop that wasn't there? Easy. Prompt:
- "Add me leaning against the van."
- "Drop snow on the ground."
Result: the campaign shot you wish you'd planned in the first place.
Generative Filling for Clothing or Objects
Need more wardrobe options? Nano Banana's basically a stylist with infinite stock. Prompt:
- "Give me a sweater."
- "Add sunglasses."
Think generative fill, but it doesn't argue about the mood board.
Mostly Matt
Adding Text to Photos with Specific Styles
Your design team might hate you for this one. Prompt:
- "Add the word Aurora across the top in a cool font that matches the vibe."
In seconds, you've got poster-ready visuals-no Illustrator file required.
Changing Environmental Colours Based on Context
Autumn campaign but your shoot's stuck in summer? Prompt:
- "Turn the leaves into fall colours-red, orange, yellow."
Nano Banana can tell leaves from grass, so you don't end up with a radioactive lawn.
Modifying Animal Features Based on Natural Context
Okay, this one's niche-but weirdly useful for realism sticklers. Upload your moose shot and say:
- "Remove velvet from the antlers, make them rut-ready."
Field guide accuracy, without waiting for the right season.
Removing People or Objects from Photos
Tourist photobombing your campaign shot? Prompt:
- "Remove the crowd."
Poof-instant exclusivity, like you rented the whole landmark for yourself.
Colorizing Black and White Images
Want to bring vintage to life? Upload a black-and-white image and prompt:
- "Add colour."
The results are scarily good-like history just upgraded to 4K.
Restoring Damaged Photos
That old family photo with cracks and stains? Prompt:
- "Restore this."
It won't always be pixel-perfect-it sometimes "imagines" details-but it beats your uncle's flatbed scanner.
Adding Detail to Blurry Photos
Blurry group photo? Prompt:
- "Sharpen and add detail."
Heads up: Nano Banana might shift faces slightly, so keep it for personal archives, not police evidence.
Mostly Matt
Implementing Mandela Effects
Test your audience's memory. Upload a logo and prompt:
- "Remove the cornucopia from the Fruit of the Loom logo."
Now you've got content that sparks heated arguments in the comments section.
Switching the Time of Day in a Photo
Night campaign, but your shoot was daytime? No problem. Prompt:
- "Make it sunset."
- "Switch this to daytime."
Just like that, your brand lives in golden hour forever.
Nano Banana for Creative Marketing: Turning Ideas into Art
Need campaign visuals that stand out? Nano Banana doubles as your in-house artist. Generate bold illustrations, surreal campaign concepts, or hand-drawn styles to match your brand aesthetic. It's where "we don't have budget for an illustrator" stops being a problem.
Creating Alternate Camera Angles, Insert Shots, and Emotions for Consistent Characters
Forget re-shoots. Upload your scene-say, an anime market street-and prompt:
- "Move the camera up."
- "Close-up of her."
- "Insert shot: someone picking up an apple."
- "Same character, now give me fear, joy, anger, relief."
Nano Banana keeps characters and style consistent, so it's like having a full animation studio in your laptop.
Generating Movie Posters
Upload your face, then go Hollywood. Prompt:
- "Movie poster parody of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Title: The Good, The Bad, and The AI. Western theme, robot co-star."
If the AI botches your face, just re-upload and run it again. Eventually you'll get a poster worthy of an ironic Cannes submission.
Making Miniature Models of Objects
Got a product? A landmark? A weird lighthouse obsession? Upload the image, then prompt:
- "Make a miniature model of this lighthouse on a wooden table."
Suddenly you've got assets for packaging mockups, product inserts, or the world's cutest social post.
Mostly Matt
Combining Multiple Elements into a Single Image
Collage is back, but smarter. Create a rough layout of everything you want-logo, product, celebrity endorsement gone rogue-and label each piece. Upload, then let Nano Banana merge them into one seamless image. Perfect for chaotic campaign visuals or mood boards that don't suck.
Generating Black-and-White Coloring Book Pages
Upload an image. Prompt:
- "Turn this into a black-and-white colouring book page."
Now you've got campaign swag, merch inserts, or a novelty freebie for bored customers.
Creating Real-World Representations from Sketches or Doodles
Dust off those old napkin doodles. Upload, then prompt:
- "Give me a real-world version of this sketch."
Great for early-stage product concepts-or just proving your notebook monster actually exists.
Maintaining Consistent Characters Across Comic Frames
Upload a character once, then keep them consistent across panels. Prompt frame-by-frame:
- "Character standing."
- "Character running."
- "Character shouting at a cat."
Suddenly, you're publishing comics without an illustrator on retainer.
Extruding Hand-Drawn Fantasy Maps into 3D Tabletop Worlds
Upload your map. Prompt:
- "Extrude this into a 3D tabletop world. Interpret contour lines for elevation, symbols for castles and villages."
Whether you're marketing a board game, pitching a world-building project, or just a nerd with ambition-this one's magic.
Isolating Objects and Turning Them into Isometric Models
Upload literally any object. Prompt:
- "Turn this into an isometric model."
That's instant isometric icons for decks, game design, or app mockups.
Depicting Cartoons as Live-Action Costume Tests
Upload your cartoon of choice. Prompt:
- "Make this look like a big-budget live-action costume test, shot on film."
It's the uncanny valley, but in the best way-perfect for parody campaigns or pop culture tie-ins.
Transforming Existing Art in New Ways
Upload any art style. Prompt:
- "Apply a Meat Canyon twist."
- "Rework this as stained glass."
This is remix culture on steroids: fast, funny, and endlessly brandable.
Mostly Matt
Marketing with Nano Banana: Branding, Ads & Design at Scale
This is where the magic hits the bottom line. Nano Banana can churn out ad variations, unify product catalogues, and give startups the design consistency of a Fortune 500. From A/B testing visuals to building entire pitch decks, it's not just creative-it's strategic.
Infinite Product Shots
Forget waiting on freelancers or stock sites that never quite match your vibe. Drag in your logo, describe the thing ("sleek energy drink can called Future Fuel"), and Nano Banana will happily churn out more variations than you'll ever need.
If you want to mash your product into a lifestyle shot (skate park, marble kitchen counter, Tokyo back alley), just upload a base image and tell it to "replace the can." Pro tip: crop your original product photo so it matches the base image's aspect ratio-saves you from wonky proportions. Yes, you can even layer text straight in.
Landing Pages, Minus the Crying
Type: "create a landing page." Sit back. Brace yourself. It might add random design flourishes or spell "innovation" with three n's, so be ready to tweak prompts. But it can also code the damn page for you-something no intern has ever done without a pizza bribe.
Data Viz Without the Data Team
Got stats? Great. Don't? Nano Banana doesn't care. You can feed it specific numbers and chart types, or literally just say "come up with a data and visualization idea yourself." Yes, it will happily hallucinate bar charts about alien coffee consumption if you let it.
Business Cards in 10 Seconds
Prompt: "make me some business cards." That's it. Honestly quicker than opening Canva.
Fonts From Thin Air
Upload an image of the font you're vibing with (say, the edgy type on a can of Future Fuel). Then: "create a full font including every letter." Boom-you've got a bespoke typeface without spending three grand on a designer in Berlin.
Game Assets on Autopilot
Upload your character sketch, then say: "give me every animation pose" or "generate a sprite sheet." Suddenly you're a game studio. Try not to let it go to your head.
CAD Gets Sexy
Those lifeless grey CAD screenshots? Feed them in and say: "make this anodized aluminum with a black studio background." Or swap it for white. Industrial design never looked this Instagrammable.
Mostly Matt
Interior Design on Shuffle
Upload a room, swap the wallpaper, keep the rest intact. One click and you're basically Kelly Wearstler.
Thumbnails (with Warnings)
Yes, you can ask for "MrBeast style thumbnail with my face, shocked expression, computer on one side, banana on the screen." And it'll give you something that looks... almost YouTube-ready. The catches:
- Nano Banana hates aspect ratios. Fix by adding blank space to your original image before uploading.
- It gets stubborn on tiny edits-Photoshop is still faster sometimes.
- For complex thumbnails, generate layers separately (text, background, your face), then stitch them together. Think Lego, not magic wand.
Advanced Nano Banana Workflows: Hybrid Marketing & AI Hacks
Once you've nailed the basics, Nano Banana opens the door to hybrid workflows. Combine it with copy AI, feed it brand style guides, or merge multiple images into complex campaigns. This is where marketers stop using AI as a toy-and start using it as infrastructure.
Converting 2D Images to 3D Models
Want your flat logo or product shot to suddenly exist in 3D? Step one: use Nano Banana to isolate it and turn it into a clean isometric model. Step two: toss that file into an image-to-3D generator like Hunuan or Trippo. Congrats, you've just levelled up from "mockup" to "metaverse asset."
Annotating Specific Areas of an Image
Sometimes words aren't enough. Upload your image into a tool with annotation features (Freepic, for instance), circle what you want, and add captions like:
- "This section needs to become a glass dome."
- "Generate the rest of this person's body."
It's prompt-engineering, but with a red pen - and far less swearing.
Generating Location-Based AR Experiences
Upload a street photo or a screenshot from your phone. Prompt:
- "Highlight points of interest in this image and annotate with relevant info."
Suddenly, Nano Banana is your AR tour guide. Perfect for interactive campaigns, retail pop-ups, or flexing on your competition.
Simulating Perspective from Google Maps
Take a screenshot of a Google Map, draw a red arrow at your location, and ask Nano Banana:
- "What does the red arrow see of Tokyo Tower?"
It won't always be pixel-perfect, but the fact it works at all is a glimpse into the future of context-aware marketing.
Mostly Matt
Creating Consistent Characters Across Scenes
Upload your character once - whether it's your brand mascot, your dog, or yourself. Then prompt:
- "Show them in different locations and situations."
Nano Banana nails consistency far better than its rivals, so your campaign character doesn't accidentally grow six fingers in the middle of a series.
Creating Time-Lapses (with external tools)
Switch a photo from night to day, then throw it into a video tool like Cling. Prompt for a time-lapse, and suddenly you've got dynamic B-roll without waiting 12 hours for the sun to move.
Animating Images (with external tools)
Nano Banana sets the stage, video tools bring it to life. Example:
- Step one: "Add people to this empty bar scene."
- Step two: import into Runway or Cling, and animate.
You've just storyboarded an ad in minutes.
Generating B-roll for Videos
Need filler shots? Skip the stock libraries. Prompt a tool like Cling with:
- "Quick scene of someone working in a coffee shop."
The physics might be a bit janky, but for social content, it's good enough - and infinitely cheaper.
Changing Style of a Video Still While Maintaining Consistency
Take a still from your video, drop it into Nano Banana, and re-style it:
- "Turn this into a noir sketch"
- "Make it look like anime."
Then send it back to RunwayML Gen-2, which keeps lip-syncing and gestures intact through the full clip. The result? Style-shifting videos that still feel natural.
Mostly Matt
Advanced Nano Banana Workflows: Hybrid Marketing & AI Hacks
Once you've nailed the basics, Nano Banana opens the door to hybrid workflows. Combine it with copy AI, feed it brand style guides, or merge multiple images into complex campaigns. This is where marketers stop using AI as a toy-and start using it as infrastructure.
Upscaling Low-Resolution Images
Nano Banana's fast, but sometimes the Gemini app spits out images that look like they've been compressed through three WhatsApp forwards. That's where upscalers come in.
- For keeping things crisp: Run your image through Magnific AI's standard upscaler. It sharpens without messing with the details.
- For adding extra magic: Use Magnific AI's creative upscaler. It doesn't just clean - it reimagines, filling in structure and layering on believable detail.
Think of it as the difference between "polish" and "director's cut."
Wrapping Up the Nano Banana
So there you have it: Google's oddly named, dangerously powerful image model. From headshots that make you look employable to marketing campaigns that never needed a photoshoot, Nano Banana is less "AI sidekick" and more "creative department on speed."
Will it replace designers and marketers entirely? No. (Well... not yet.) But it will replace the endless back-and-forth of"Can you just tweak this slightly?" emails, the overpriced stock photo licenses, and the panicked midnight scramble for campaign visuals.
Mostly Matt
Think of it this way: Photoshop was the tool of the 2000s. Canva was the tool of the 2010s. Nano Banana is the tool of the 2020s - the difference is, this one doesn't just edit. It imagines.
Now the only real question is: how are you going to use it before everyone else catches up?
Who are we: Three marketers from 3 different corners of the world with 40 years collective experience building brands that matter. Need some help? Come and talk to us: hello@mostly-human.ai 👋
