Google Gemini Image Editing Gets Major Upgrade
The Google Gemini image editing upgrade—codenamed Nano Banana—has officially rolled out, promising more consistent and realistic AI-generated photos. With this new release, Gemini can better preserve the likeness of people, pets, and characters across edits, ensuring images feel authentic instead of slightly off.
What Makes the Nano Banana Upgrade Different?
Unlike previous versions, the Gemini upgrade now maintains character consistency across multiple edits. That means your friends, family, or even your pets will look like themselves in every photo, no matter how playful or unusual the edits may be.
In addition, the update brings advanced creative options. Users can merge separate images—like a picture of yourself and another of your cat—into one seamless, imaginative scene. You can also keep layering edits, such as filling an empty room with furniture in your style, or blending unrelated objects into completely new designs.
Accessibility and Professional Use
Every Gemini user can now access this Nano Banana upgrade for free. However, professional users working with high-volume outputs will encounter a fee: $30 per 1 million output tokens.
Google emphasizes that this new model ensures greater accuracy in likeness retention while unlocking more playful and complex edits for personal and creative projects.
Why This Upgrade Matters
With AI-generated images growing in popularity, realism often becomes the deciding factor between useful and unusable results. By maintaining facial features and pet likenesses across edits, Gemini aims to stand out in the crowded AI editing space. The ability to merge, enhance, and continuously refine images makes this upgrade especially valuable for both casual users and professionals.
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