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What is Nano Banana AI image generator and editor?

Built by Google.

Plugged into Kapwing.

Nano Banana is Google’s Gemini model for AI image generation and editing.

It lets you generate and edit photos with natural language prompts, delivering precise transformations, consistent characters and objects, and studio-quality visuals.

In Kapwing, creators use Nano Banana to create video frames, reference images, B-roll images, characters, and product shots for their AI video projects.

Create new images or transform the ones you have

Generate

images from scratch, including photorealistic scenes, text-heavy visuals, detailed characters, and products photos

Edit

images using simple text prompts — remove the background, swap outfits, delete objects, and more

Nano Banana in Kapwing

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Good Dog Club dog-treat packaging with four illustrated dogs and pastel colors.

Alphabet soup spelling “We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”

Women’s Health magazine cover mockup with a woman in workout clothes and fitness headlines.

Surreal city at sunset with an inverted skyline and highways suspended above a busy bridge.

Fashion portrait of a woman in sunglasses and a red leather jacket sitting inside a yellow supermarket freezer.

Woman holding a transparent umbrella on a rainy, neon-lit city street at night.

Via Mare wine bottle with a custom illustrated label beside an olive branch.

Custom figurine of a woman displayed beside its packaging and a computer showing the matching 3D model.

Why choose Nano Banana?

Free to start. No watermark. Fully online.

Background removal example showing a cyclist beside a transparent checkerboard area.

Edit specific elements

Replace a prop, change an outfit, or adjust the lighting with simple instructions. Apply changes to individual elements and describe which parts of the image should stay the same.

Four images of the same woman in different outfits, illustrating consistent character editing.

Create consistent characters

Use reference images or a create a character sheet to lock-in how your character looks. Use them across different scenes, poses, and environments with identical likeness.

Character reference sheet paired with a storyboard for the animated short “The Crossing.”

Build with references

Guide your subject, style, and composition with up to 10 reference images. Explore a new aesthetic or recreate the look of existing photos, visual trends, and brand imagery.

Text prompt turning into varied images, including fantasy creatures, a cyborg, and Santa on a beach.

Natural-language prompting

Describe your subject, setting, lighting, and style to generate an image from scratch. Refine the result with follow-up prompts using everyday language and get images in any aspect ratio.

●Step by Step

How to use Google Nano Banana

Step 1
Choose Nano Banana
Open Kapwing AI, open Model Preferences, and select Google Nano Banana under Images.
Step 2
Generate or edit
Describe a new image, or attach photos you want to edit. Name the subject, setting, lighting, and aspect ratio.
Step 3
Build your video
Review your image and download it. Or, add it to a video project. Ask Kai to use it as B-roll, a start or end frame, character reference, style reference, or product reference.

From Nano Banana to studio-quality videos

Start frames

Use Nano Banana to generate or edit your opening image. Then, animate it into a video using one of 10+ AI video models in Kai, adding audio and dialogue in a single generation.

Characters

Create a character for your videos in any style — photorealistic, anime, cartoon, pencil drawing, and more. Generate your character from scratch or edit an uploaded photo.

Red-and-white sneaker reference transformed into a dramatic closing shot with a glowing red sole.

End Frames

Create your video’s closing image with Nano Banana, then use it as an end frame in Kai with a compatible video model — Seedance 2.5, Veo 3, or MiniMax H3

B-roll

Generate supporting images and add them as B-roll to video projects in the editing timeline or AI-generated videos in Kai

Products

Adjust your product image’s lighting, camera angle, and background, apply effects and filters, or change its aspect ratio. Then animate it for video ads, demos, and promotional clips.

Storyboard for “Susie’s Kitchen Catastrophe,” showing a cartoon chef’s cooking mishaps across multiple shots.

Storyboards

Use Nano Banana to generate or edit an image for each planned shot, then add those frames to a storyboard-to-video workflow in Kai

●Resources

Prepare images for AI videos

Generate AI videos in Kapwing using up to 30 reference images

How to Create a Character Reference Sheet

How to Make a Full AI Video from a Image Storyboard

How to Turn a Product Photo Into an Ad Using AI

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●Just the FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We have answers to the most common questions that our users ask.

What is Google Nano Banana?

Google Nano Banana is the name used for Google's Gemini image-generation and editing model family. In Kapwing, choose Google Nano Banana to create an image from text or edit an uploaded reference. Nano Banana can generate or edit photos and graphics, as well as help prepare images for use as video assets.

How do I access Google Nano Banana in Kapwing?

Open Kapwing AI, Kai. In Model Preferences, select Google Nano Banana under Images. Describe your image or attach a reference and request an edit. You can download and export the result or continue working on it in a Kapwing project.

Can I edit my own photos and use reference images?

Yes. Attach your photos in Kai and explain the changes you want. You can request a different setting, lighting, object, or style, and use references to guide the result. State which details should remain unchanged.

Can Nano Banana generate videos, audio, or lip sync?

No, Nano Banana generates still images, not video clips or audio. However, you can turn a still image into a video using Kapwing' AI Video Generator, which is supported by AI models such as Kling, Seedance, Grok Video, Happy Horse, and Veo.

What aspect ratios and resolution can I use?

When using Nano Banana in Kapwing, you can request 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 4:3, 4:5, 5:4, 9:16, 16:9, and 21:9 aspect ratios through Kai. Include your preferred aspect ratio in the prompt. Images are generated as PNG files.

Is Nano Banana free?

Yes, anyone can try Nano Banana image generator for free in Kapwing. On a free account, exports include a Kapwing watermark. Paid plans remove that watermark.

Can I use Nano Banana on iPhone or Android?

Yes, you can access Kapwing in a mobile web browser on iPhone, iPad, and Android. There is no separate Nano Banana app to install for this workflow.

What kind of content can I create with Nano Banana?

Create product images, campaign concepts, social media graphics, thumbnails, and visuals for video projects. Brands and marketing teams can explore campaign styles, while e-commerce businesses can place products in different settings. Agencies can develop creative concepts and variations for client review. Use reference images to guide the look, then bring your visuals into Kapwing to add text, build layouts, or animate them with a compatible video model.

What other AI image models are in Kapwing?

Alongside Google Nano Banana, Kapwing offers GPT Image 2, Seedream 4.5, Seedream 5, and Grok Imagine Image.

MORE AI MODELS IN KAPWING

Happy Horse 1.0 Veo 3 Kling Motion Control Seedance 2.5 ChatGPT Image 2 MiniMax H3 Seedance 2.0 Kling Omni MiniMax Music

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