Gemini Nano Banana Prompts for Editing Product and Brand Photos

Google’s Gemini image model, widely known as Nano Banana, became popular for one reason: it is very good at editing real photos while keeping the subject recognizable. For businesses, that means you can take a phone photo of your product or yourself and turn it into polished social content. Here is how to prompt it.

What it is good at

• Changing backgrounds while keeping the subject the same.
• Adjusting lighting, season and time of day.
• Combining several images into one scene.
• Keeping a person or product consistent across multiple images.
• Making targeted edits from plain-language instructions.

How to prompt for edits

Upload your photo, then describe the change and what must stay the same. The “keep” instruction is the key.

Formula: “[Change]. Keep [subject] exactly the same, including [important details].”

Background prompts

1. “Place this product on a white marble bathroom counter with soft morning light. Keep the bottle and label exactly the same.”
2. “Replace the background with a clean studio set in pale terracotta with a soft shadow.”
3. “Put this candle on a cozy bookshelf with warm evening lamp light.”
4. “Move this sneaker to an urban street scene at golden hour, slightly blurred background.”
5. “Place this dish on a rustic wooden restaurant table with a window behind.”

Lighting and mood prompts

6. “Change the lighting to bright, airy daylight. Keep everything else the same.”
7. “Make this scene feel like a winter holiday with soft fairy lights in the background.”
8. “Turn this daytime photo into a dusk scene with warm interior lights on.”
9. “Add soft shadows from a window as if it is late afternoon.”

People and portrait prompts

10. “Turn this selfie into a professional headshot with a neutral gray backdrop and soft studio light. Keep my face, hair and features exactly the same.”
11. “Put me in a bright modern office, holding a coffee, same outfit.”
12. “Create four variations of this photo in different outfits for a personal brand shoot, keeping my face identical.”

Combining images

13. “Combine these three product photos into one flat lay on a linen background, evenly spaced.”
14. “Place the person from image one holding the product from image two in a kitchen setting.”
15. “Use the style of image two to restyle image one.”

Tips

• Start with a sharp, well-lit original photo.
• Make one change per request, then build on it.
• Check small details: labels, logos, hands and text often need a second pass.
• Be honest in marketing. Edited scenes are fine; misrepresenting what a product looks like or does is not.

For more product scenes, see background replacement prompts, and compare all major tools in our AI image prompts guide.