Overview
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), an advanced image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It enhances creativity by offering studio-quality designs with unprecedented control, improved text rendering, and enriched world knowledge. This new model builds on the earlier Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), which empowered casual creators with image editing capabilities.
Key Features and Capabilities
Enhanced Visualization and Reasoning
Nano Banana Pro helps users visualize any idea or design, from prototypes to infographics and diagrams. Leveraging Gemini 3’s advanced reasoning and real-world knowledge, it generates more accurate, context-rich visuals. It can connect to Google Search to incorporate real-time information such as weather or sports, and create educational content like infographics and explainers.
Examples include:
- Infographics on plants with care essentials and growth patterns.
- Step-by-step recipe visualizations.
- Pop-art infographics using real-time weather data.
Superior Text Rendering and Multilingual Support
Nano Banana Pro excels at rendering legible and accurate text directly within images, supporting short taglines to long paragraphs. It offers a wide variety of textures, fonts, and calligraphy styles, enabling detailed text in mockups, posters, and more. Enhanced multilingual reasoning allows generating, localizing, and translating text in multiple languages, facilitating international scaling and sharing.
Sample prompts demonstrated:
- Storyboard creation for film scenes.
- Integrating words like "BERLIN" into architectural visuals.
- Expressive calligraphy logos conveying meaning visually.
- Accurate translation of English text into Korean on product packaging.
- Retro typography designs with textured effects.
- Creative blending of text and texture in thematic scenes.
High-Fidelity Visuals and Creative Controls
Nano Banana Pro supports blending up to 14 images while maintaining consistency across multiple characters (up to 5 people), enabling complex compositions. It bridges the gap between concept and creation by turning sketches into photorealistic products or blueprints into 3D structures, ensuring seamless branding.
Creative controls include:
- Localized editing to select, refine, and transform image parts.
- Adjusting camera angles, focus, and sophisticated color grading.
- Scene lighting transformations (e.g., day to night, bokeh effects).
- Multiple aspect ratios and 2K/4K resolution outputs for various platforms.
Example prompts:
- Combining multiple characters in a cozy living room scene.
- Creating cinematic lifestyle scenes and surreal landscapes.
- Fashion editorial shots maintaining identity and natural lighting.
Availability and Use Cases
- Consumers and Students: Available globally in the Gemini app under the ‘Thinking’ model, with free-tier users having limited quotas and subscribers receiving higher quotas.
- Professionals: Upgrading Google Ads image generation and rolling out to Workspace customers in Google Slides and Vids.
- Developers and Enterprises: Rolling out in Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Google Antigravity, and Vertex AI for scaled creation; soon in Gemini Enterprise.
- Creatives: Available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Flow, an AI filmmaking tool for precise control over frames and scenes.
AI-Generated Image Identification
Google emphasizes transparency by embedding an imperceptible SynthID digital watermark in all AI-generated media. Users can verify if an image was generated by Google AI by uploading it to the Gemini app. Visible watermarks (the Gemini sparkle) appear on images from free and Pro tier users, while Ultra subscribers and developers get watermark-free images for professional use.
Summary
Nano Banana Pro represents Google’s most advanced image generation and editing model, combining enhanced reasoning, real-time knowledge, superior text rendering, and high-fidelity creative controls. It supports a wide range of users—from casual creators to professionals and enterprises—offering powerful tools for complex, visually sophisticated image creation and editing across multiple platforms and languages.
