Blog / 7 min read · 2026-07-28
Google Nano Banana Prompts: 25 Ready-to-Use Image Editing Ideas
Copy Google Nano Banana prompts for portraits, product photos, background swaps, retouching, and creative image edits with clear, repeatable instructions.
These Google Nano Banana prompts are written for image editing: upload your source image, then paste one prompt and adjust the details in brackets. They cover portrait cleanup, product images, background changes, and stylized transformations without forcing you to write from scratch. The best edits start with a clear instruction about what must change and what must stay untouched.
How to use these prompts
- Upload the image you want to edit in Gemini.
- Copy a prompt below and replace bracketed details with your own specifics.
- State the subject’s important features that must remain consistent, such as face, pose, logo, label text, or product shape.
- If the first result is close, make one focused follow-up request instead of rewriting everything.
A useful structure is:
Edit this image by changing [specific element]. Keep [elements to preserve] unchanged. Match the existing [lighting, camera angle, composition, or style].
For tricky edits, name the constraints twice in plain language. For example: “Keep the person’s identity unchanged. Do not alter facial proportions, hairstyle, or expression.”
Portrait editing prompts
1. Natural skin cleanup
Retouch this portrait naturally. Reduce temporary blemishes and uneven skin texture while preserving pores, freckles, fine lines, facial structure, and the person’s identity. Keep the lighting, expression, and hair unchanged. Avoid a plastic or overly smoothed look.
2. Remove a distracting background object
Remove the [object] behind the person and reconstruct the background naturally. Keep the subject’s pose, clothing, hairstyle, face, shadows, and image framing exactly the same.
3. Professional headshot background
Replace the background with a clean, softly blurred [light gray / warm beige / dark charcoal] studio backdrop. Keep the person’s face, pose, clothing, hair, and original lighting direction unchanged. Make the result look like a realistic professional headshot.
4. Improve low-light portrait exposure
Brighten this portrait as if it were photographed with soft window light. Recover detail in the face and hair, reduce harsh shadows, and keep skin tones natural. Do not change the person’s identity, clothing, pose, or background composition.
5. Wardrobe color change
Change the color of the person’s [shirt / jacket / dress] to [color]. Preserve the garment’s fabric texture, seams, folds, fit, shadows, and all other details. Do not change the person’s face, body shape, pose, or background.
6. Remove glare from glasses
Reduce glare and reflections on the glasses while keeping the frames, eye shape, gaze direction, facial features, and lighting realistic. Do not remove the glasses or alter the person’s identity.
7. Social profile crop
Reframe this image into a polished square profile photo. Keep the subject centered with comfortable space above the head. Preserve the person’s face, expression, clothing, and background style. Extend the image naturally where needed.
Product photo prompts
8. Clean e-commerce background
Place this product on a pure white background with a soft realistic shadow directly beneath it. Keep the product’s shape, color, texture, label, logo, and proportions unchanged. Use a clean catalog-style composition.
9. Premium studio product shot
Turn this into a premium studio product photograph. Keep the product exactly unchanged, including its packaging, label text, branding, and proportions. Use a [color] seamless background, soft directional lighting, and a subtle grounded shadow.
10. Lifestyle setting
Place this product in a realistic [kitchen / desk / bathroom / outdoor] setting appropriate for its use. Keep the product’s design, label, logo, and scale unchanged. Use natural light and leave clear visual focus on the product.
11. Remove packaging damage
Clean up minor scuffs, dust, fingerprints, and creases on this product packaging. Preserve all printed text, logos, colors, edges, material texture, and the original product shape.
12. Create a flat-lay image
Transform this into a neat top-down flat-lay product image on a [surface material] background. Keep the product unchanged and add only a few relevant props: [props]. Use balanced spacing and soft natural shadows.
13. Product color variant
Create a color variant of this product in [color]. Preserve the exact product design, material texture, label placement, logo, lighting, camera angle, and proportions. Change only the specified product color.
14. Remove an unwanted hand
Remove the hand holding the product and complete the hidden areas naturally. Keep the product’s size, shape, label, logo, lighting, and position consistent with the original image.
Background and composition prompts
15. Replace a busy background
Replace the busy background with a simple [location or backdrop]. Keep the main subject exactly as it is, including edges, lighting direction, perspective, and natural contact shadows. Make the new background believable for the scene.
16. Extend the canvas
Expand this image to a [square / vertical / horizontal] format. Continue the existing background and environment naturally beyond the current edges. Keep the original subject, framing, lighting, and proportions unchanged.
17. Remove a person from the scene
Remove the person on the [left / right / background] from this image. Rebuild the area behind them naturally, matching nearby textures, objects, lighting, shadows, and perspective. Keep the main subject unchanged.
18. Change the season
Change the setting from [current season] to [new season]. Keep the main subject, pose, clothing, and composition unchanged. Update only environmental details such as foliage, ground texture, weather, and ambient light.
19. Golden-hour lighting
Keep the scene and all subjects unchanged, but convert the lighting to warm golden-hour sunlight. Add realistic soft directional shadows and warm highlights while preserving detail and avoiding an artificial orange cast.
20. Remove clutter
Remove the clutter from [area of image], including [objects]. Keep the main subject and important objects unchanged. Reconstruct the cleared area naturally with consistent texture, perspective, lighting, and shadows.
Stylized image editing prompts
21. Editorial film look
Give this image a refined editorial film look with gentle contrast, natural skin tones, subtle grain, softened highlights, and rich but restrained colors. Keep the subject, composition, facial features, and clothing unchanged.
22. Watercolor illustration
Transform this image into a detailed watercolor illustration. Preserve the original composition, subject identity, pose, and key objects. Use layered watercolor washes, visible paper texture, soft edges, and controlled color bleeding.
23. Vintage postcard treatment
Restyle this image as a vintage travel postcard from the mid-century era. Preserve the scene’s main subject and composition. Add slightly faded colors, printed-paper texture, soft grain, and a tasteful border without adding unreadable text.
24. Minimal line-art version
Convert this image into clean minimal line art. Preserve the subject’s recognizable pose, silhouette, and important details. Use simple black lines on an off-white background with no shading and no extra objects.
25. Cinematic rainy-night scene
Transform this image into a cinematic rainy-night scene. Keep the subject’s identity, pose, clothing, and camera angle unchanged. Add wet pavement, realistic reflections, soft streetlights, and atmospheric rain without obscuring the subject.
Prompt fixes when an edit goes wrong
Image edits often fail because the request is too broad. Instead of saying “make this better,” identify the exact change, the protected details, and the visual reference.
Use these follow-ups:
Keep the generated edit, but restore the original face, expression, and hairstyle from my uploaded image.
Keep the product label and logo exactly as shown in the original image. Do not invent or rewrite text.
The background is correct. Change only the lighting to softer daylight and leave every object in the same position.
Undo the changes to the clothing. Keep only the background replacement.
Make the result more realistic by matching the original camera angle, shadow direction, and depth of field.
For text-heavy packaging, signs, or documents, inspect the output carefully. If text changes, ask for a narrower edit that excludes the text area.
FAQ
What are Google Nano Banana prompts?
Google Nano Banana prompts are plain-language instructions used to guide an image edit. Strong prompts explain the requested change, identify details that must remain unchanged, and describe the desired visual result.
How do I keep a face unchanged during an image edit?
Explicitly say that the person’s identity, facial proportions, expression, hairstyle, and skin tone must remain unchanged. Then limit the requested edit to one area, such as the background, clothing color, or lighting.
Can I use these prompts for product images?
Yes. The product prompts are designed to protect details that matter in commerce, including shape, label placement, logos, proportions, materials, and printed text. Review any generated text before publishing an image.
Why does the model change more than I asked?
Broad requests invite broad edits. Name what should change, then list what must stay untouched. If the result still drifts, use a follow-up that preserves the good parts and corrects one issue.
Should I use one long prompt or several short requests?
Start with one complete prompt for the main edit. Then use short follow-up requests for refinements, such as changing the shadow, restoring a logo, or adjusting a background color.
Free Nano Banana tools
Three free in-browser tools that pair with the prompts in this guide:
- Nano Banana prompt generator — assemble photo-edit, figurine, portrait, and product prompts from tested phrase blocks.
- Aspect ratio canvas generator — when Gemini ignores your 16:9 request and returns squares.
- Image fix prompt picker — repair blurry, plastic, or warped output with paste-ready blocks.
Conclusion
The most reliable Google Nano Banana prompts make one change at a time and protect the details that matter. Save the prompts that fit your workflow, then explore related Gemini image-editing guides and prompt collections for more specialized ideas.
More ready-to-use sets: photo editing prompts, image prompts for men, or the prompt gallery.