Model guide · Gemini 3.6 Flash

Nano Banana 2.1

Visual design, targeted edits and consistent subjects

Nano Banana 2.1 is an image generation and editing model based on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Explore its capabilities, practical prompting advice and community examples in one place.

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For a series, describe the traits that must stay fixed: face, clothing, product shape and palette. For an edit, separate what should change from what should remain. Review each result before the next iteration.

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Create a hyper-realistic 1960s vintage editorial fashion photograph in a vertical 9:16 composition, featuring the gir…
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1960s fashion editorial in a vintage car mirror

Create a hyper-realistic 1960s vintage editorial fashion photograph in a vertical 9:16 composition, featuring the girl from the reference image. Preserve her identity and appearance exactly as shown in the reference — including her facial structure, proportions, distinctive features, skin tone, hairstyle characteristics, and overall natural appearance. Do not alter or reinterpret her face. The scene is captured as a full-body fashion portrait reflected inside a small, oval chrome side mirror of a vintage car. The mirror has naturally curved, slightly distorted edges and realistic reflections. The camera is positioned close to the driver's window, angled toward the side mirror. Inside the mirror reflection, the girl is fully visible with generous background space. She is walking toward the rear of the car while slightly turning her head toward the mirror, creating a subtle candid moment. She has a calm, confident expression with a soft, understated smile. She wears a beautifully tailored powder-blue midi dress with a slim waist belt, paired with a burgundy silk scarf, elegant cat-eye sunglasses, a small ivory handbag, and classic white pointed heels. Her styling has an authentic polished 1960s fashion aesthetic. The environment is a retro Mediterranean-American street with a palm-lined road, pastel-colored storefronts, a vintage station wagon, and distant mountains. Bright golden morning sunlight creates warm, natural highlights and soft shadows across the scene. Use a refined color palette of powder blue, ivory, burgundy, and warm beige. The image should look like an authentic aged 35mm film photograph, with natural analog grain, subtle film imperfections, tiny scratches, realistic exposure, authentic skin texture, and physically accurate mirror reflections. The overall mood should feel chic, nostalgic, elegant, and slightly mysterious — like a genuine fashion editorial photograph captured in the 1960s rather than an AI-generated image. Photorealistic, cinematic, highly detailed, natural proportions, realistic fabric texture, authentic vintage photography aesthetics.

Black and white fine-art architectural portrait photography, vertical 4:5 portrait format. A perfectly circular porth…
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B&W porthole stairwell architectural portrait

Black and white fine-art architectural portrait photography, vertical 4:5 portrait format. A perfectly circular porthole-shaped cutout reveals a brutalist concrete stairwell, while everything outside the circle is flat, solid near-black charcoal (#161616), with a thin crisp white rectangular border line inset a few millimeters from the frame edge. The circle sits slightly above center, with the thick, weathered concrete ring edge visible on the left side. Inside the circle: wide concrete steps rising diagonally from left to right, a slim dark metal handrail running parallel along the diagonal, a large curved concrete wall on the right catching a hard shaft of direct sunlight that creates a bright white diagonal shape, a dark curved ceiling overhang at the top right, and rough concrete texture on the left wall. Extremely high contrast, deep crushed blacks, bright highlights, strong geometric lines and curves. A lone man is walking up the stairs in the lower right of the circle, caught mid-step, one hand lightly sliding along the metal handrail. His body is angled up the staircase, but his head is turned and he looks directly into the camera lens, making strong eye contact with the viewer. He is clearly visible, not a silhouette: bareheaded with short dark hair, no hat, no cap, wearing a dark long coat, face lit by the sunbeam on one side, with a calm, serious expression. His face is the sharpest point in the image, with crisp eyes, skin texture, and defined jawline, in razor-sharp focus. Shot on an 85mm f/1.4 portrait lens, shallow depth of field, the stairs, handrail, and concrete walls behind and in front of him fall into a soft, creamy blur, with gentle compression of the stairwell geometry. Moody, minimalist, cinematic, fine film grain, no color, no text.

A hyper-realistic, 8K resolution cinematic close-up portrait of the person in the uploaded image. The image features…
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Chiaroscuro cinematic close-up portrait

A hyper-realistic, 8K resolution cinematic close-up portrait of the person in the uploaded image. The image features dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, heavily illuminating the left side of his face while casting deep, moody shadows on the right against a solid black background. He has an intense, direct gaze, dark brown eyes with square catchlights, and textured, wet-styled hair. He is wearing a plain black t-shirt. Render with 35mm film grain and a shallow depth of field, prioritizing extreme character consistency and highly detailed skin texture, including visible pores.

A cinematic portrait of a executive in a business suit, captured in a moment. The image features warm, dramatic side…
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Cinematic corporate executive portrait template

A cinematic [medium close-up] portrait of a [black man] [middle-aged] executive in a [dark] business suit, captured in a [contemplative] moment. The image features warm, dramatic side lighting that creates depth and atmosphere, while the shallow depth of field isolates [him] against a softly blurred background of ambient evening lighting. His intense, focused expression and thoughtful gesture are emphasized by the intimate framing and professional cinematography. Prompt Customization: Change the words between brackets.

Sources

Sources checked: 2026-10-09. This independent prompt and model guide is not affiliated with Google. Creator credits and original posts are linked on each example page.