10 Powerful Nano Banana Tricks You Won’t Find in the Official Guide

When Google released Nano Banana, it didn’t just add another AI tool to the growing landscape — it redefined how we interact with images. Nano Banana combines creativity, consistency, and reasoning, making complex edits as simple as giving a short prompt.

From collectible figurines to cosplay edits, from product visualizations to manga-style panels, Nano Banana is showing up everywhere on social media. Over the past few days, I’ve been experimenting with it myself, and I quickly realized: just changing backgrounds or swapping outfits isn’t enough anymore.

So today, I’ve put together a collection of 10 powerful Nano Banana use cases that you probably won’t find in the official documentation. These tricks will help you unlock its full creative potential.

1. Create Realistic 3D Figurines

This is the most viral use case — generating realistic collectible figures from your characters.

📌 Prompt Example:

Create a 1/7 scale commercialized figure of the character in the illustration, in a realistic style and environment. Place the figure on a computer desk, using a circular transparent acrylic base without any text. On the computer screen, display the ZBrush modeling process of the figure. Next to the computer screen, place a Bandai-style toy packaging box printed with the original artwork.

From anime characters to pets, Nano Banana can turn almost anything into a figure that looks like it belongs on your desk.

2. Try Instant Cosplay

Upload your photo and the character you want to cosplay, then let Nano Banana handle the rest.

📌 Prompt Example:

Make the person in Image 1 cosplay the character in Image 2. Match costume, makeup, and props with Image 2.

Here are the original photo (left) and the photo that will be cosplayed (right).

Then, you will get this photo:

The results aren’t always pixel-perfect, but the costumes and props are surprisingly detailed and realistic.

Also, you can upload a cosply figure drawing or sketch, then let Nano Banana generate a realistic cosplay figure in the realistic environment.

3. Change Poses with Ease

Want your character to strike a new pose or perform a different action? With Nano Banana, it’s incredibly simple. Just provide a quick reference — even a rough stick-figure sketch is enough — and the AI will seamlessly transform your character into the desired position. No advanced skills or complicated editing steps required.

📌 Prompt Example:

Make the character in Image 2 perform the pose from Image 1.

This is especially useful for comic artists or storyboard creators who need consistent characters in different actions.

4. Generate Exploded Product Views

With Nano Banana, you can generate ultra-detailed exploded diagrams that reveal the inner workings of any product. From metallic casings to intricate electronic components, every part is rendered with precision and perfectly aligned, giving a clear and professional view of the internal structure.

📌 Prompt Example:

Ultra-detailed exploded view of a product, metallic parts and electronic components floating in mid-air, perfectly aligned, revealing inner structure, futuristic technology aesthetic, 8K resolution, soft cinematic lighting, highly realistic.

Perfect for concept designers and futuristic product showcases.

5. Transform Line Art & Add Color

Step 1: Convert Line Art into Realistic or Artistic Artwork

Nano Banana can take a simple sketch or line drawing and transform it into a fully realized illustration. Whether you want a realistic rendering or a stylized artistic interpretation, the AI refines your line art by adding depth, shading, and fine details, creating a polished, professional-quality result.

📌 Prompt Example:

Turn this line art into a detailed, realistic illustration with soft shadows and refined textures.

Step 2: Colorize Using a Reference Palette

Once the artwork is ready, you can provide a reference color palette for Nano Banana to apply. The AI accurately maps colors from the palette onto your illustration, maintaining smooth gradients, consistent tones, and visual harmony across the image. This ensures your final artwork is both vibrant and faithful to your chosen color scheme.

📌 Prompt Example:

Colorize the line art in Image 2 based on the palette in Image 1.

It may take a few retries, but the results are smooth and consistent with the reference palette.

6. Design Game UI Screenshots

You can also use the tool to generate highly detailed fantasy RPG interfaces and visual novel screens, bringing immersive game environments to life.

Let's take computer fighting game''s interface as an example;

• Step 1: Make a screen shot of two of your characters together in the same image.
• Step 2: Use the prompt provided
• Step 3: Select your preset (I used: Pro Film Photography)

Added Notes: you can change the keywording for the scene and the character names that appear above the health bars.

📌 Prompt Example:

Create a mid motion action scene where both subject are in focus with a Three-Quarter Angle in martial arts fighting stances. They are in the same cinematic scene. Remove the line down the centre with a blurred crumbling ruins in a purple alien world in the background. The scene is shot at sunrise. Modern Fighting game health bars MORDON V's DEATH SEED. power move. Hud style screen effects. Add a thumbnail of each character to the health bars. Lense flares.

7. Build Comic Panels

Nano Banana can automatically generate comic panel layouts based on your uploaded images. Whether you want three-panel, four-panel, six-panel, or nine-panel comics, the AI arranges scenes with cinematic composition and dynamic camera angles.

It maintains strong narrative continuity, allowing you to tell compelling visual stories with smooth transitions and creative storytelling elements like flashbacks or scene highlights.

📌 Prompt Example:

Turn this photo into a multi panelcomic about a bear crying tears of joy since the release of the "nanobanana" ai image model release

8. Play with Lighting Effects

Sure, you can also use it to experiment with lighting and atmosphere in your images, enhancing mood and depth effortlessly. From subtle shadows and highlights to dramatic or cinematic effects, Nano Banana can transform ordinary scenes into visually striking compositions, giving portraits, illustrations, or environments a polished, professional look.

9. Generate Product Mockups

For e-commerce, Nano Banana is a secret weapon. Whether it’s fashion items, cosmetics, or consumer goods, Nano Banana can produce polished mockups that highlight texture, color, and product details with impressive consistency.

From rendering luxury blankets with intricate patterns to crafting compelling lipstick or skincare advertisements featuring realistic models and props, every image looks ready for professional presentation. This capability streamlines visual content creation, ensuring your product imagery is both cohesive and visually striking.

📌 Prompt Example (Fashion):

Print LV monogram pattern on this blanket.

📌 Prompt Example (Cosmetics):

Create a lipstick advertisement banner: a woman holding the lipstick and looking at the camera, with the text 'VOGUE' at the top, clean composition, high-quality photorealistic style.

This level of visual consistency is especially useful for branding and marketing materials.

10. Combine Random Objects into a Cohesive Scene

In addition, Nano Banana also excels at taking multiple, seemingly unrelated elements and seamlessly integrating them into a realistic, visually coherent scene. For example, you might upload a set of images including a hat, glasses, a jacket, a street background, and a portrait of a person. Nano Banana can intelligently compose these elements so that the final output feels natural—placing the person on the street wearing the jacket, hat, and glasses, perfectly aligned with the environment.

This capability makes it ideal for creating dynamic illustrations, concept art, or imaginative composites without manual editing or complex layering.

📌 Prompt Example:

Generate a medium close-up of a futuristic female model squatting sideways. Camera focused on her face with a confident smile. She wears the identical red high-tech space coat with a matching red semi-skirt design and red armored boots from the full-body version. She holds a white sci-fi pistol with red accents close to her face. Her cyber visor is lifted open on her forehead. In the blurred background, the same sleek red futuristic motorcycle is visible with clean depth of field. Ultra realistic, cinematic lighting, sharp focus on the character’s face, highly detailed textures, consistent semi-skirt outfit design, clean pure white studio background. Do not generate any text, labels, or annotations in the image.

Beyond pure image generation, Nano Banana has visual reasoning powers. It can:

• Annotate landmarks in AR style
• Explain puzzles visually
• Transform photos into futuristic overlays

This blend of AI + reasoning opens doors to education, tourism, and interactive experiences.

Final Thoughts

Google’s Nano Banana isn’t just another AI model — it’s a breakthrough in image editing and creative generation. Unlike traditional tools that focus on single tasks, Nano Banana blends consistency, reasoning, and artistry into one package. From turning sketches into collectible figures to designing game UIs or even generating product ads, it empowers anyone to create visuals that look professional without needing advanced skills.

What makes it truly stand out is not only the range of applications but also how intuitive it feels — giving creators, designers, and casual users a new way to push imagination into reality.