You Can Try Google's Viral Image Editing Tool Right In Search Now - Here's How

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Google unveiled Nano Banana successful Google Search and Notebook LM.
It will merchandise nan AI image editor successful Photos soon.
The instrumentality offers caller styles for illustrations and Briefs.

Nano Banana, Google's image-generating AI exemplary besides known arsenic Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, is coming to Google Search and NotebookLM, and will beryllium disposable successful Photos soon, Google announced Monday. The AI-powered image editor makes it easy to alteration images pinch earthy connection personification prompts.

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The exemplary became mostly available earlier this month, but was only accessible successful nan Gemini API aliases for endeavor usage via Vertex AI. Here's really to get started successful these precocious added applications.

Nano Banana successful Search

In Google Search, a personification tin return aliases upload a photograph and punctual Nano Banana to create a refined image.

In a demo, Google shows a personification taking a photograph of their undecorated chamber and uploading it to Create mode pinch nan banana icon successful Google Search. Within their prompt, nan personification offers immoderate discourse connected what they want to support and alteration astir nan room. Then, Nano Banana generates a chamber makeover pinch nan user's prompt, transforming nan room from minimalist to maximalist pinch nan "dopamine decor"-inspired vibe they included successful their prompt.

Nano Banana successful NotebookLM

In Google's investigation instrumentality Notebook LM, Nano Banana brings six caller styles to Video Overviews, which researchers usage to summarize, synthesize, and aggregate accusation successful a concise and digestible format. Google mentions watercolor and anime arsenic 2 of nan six styles group tin now usage erstwhile creating illustrations aliases utilizing Briefs.

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The tech elephantine mentions that Nano Banana will travel to Google Photos soon, but makes nary mention of its motorboat date.

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Google integrated Nano Banana successful nan Gemini app successful August, and since then, users person generated complete 5 cardinal images pinch nan tool, Google says. The AI-powered image editor changes images done generated prompts for an easier and little method image transformation.

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The instrumentality tin not only alteration subtle details, for illustration lighting aliases color, but besides bigger aspects of photos, for illustration a portrait's inheritance aliases a subject's outfit. It tin besides merge 2 subjects from different photos together.

I tried retired Nano Banana connected a photograph of earbuds I took, prompting it to initially alteration nan inheritance from grey to white, and past prompting to alteration nan style of nan photograph to a steampunk vibe. Here are my results.

It generated an meticulous and cleanable photograph of my earbuds pinch a achromatic background.

And here's really nan earbuds looked aft I prompted Nano Banana to springiness them a steampunk makeover.

The AI generates immoderate compelling images and besides cleans up photos neatly. It could beryllium useful for group who don't cognize nan ins and outs of image editing to get precisely what they want retired of their photos successful a pinch.