By Robert Hart
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 22:09:00
I gave Google’s new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn’t ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my greetings card would look better with more skin.
Nano Banana Pro is, as the name suggests, aimed at professionals. Powered by Gemini 3, it’s effectively an upgrade of the company’s popular image generation and editing tool that went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into hyperrealistic 3D figurines. Google says it lets you create higher quality images that you can print, render legible text onto pictures, and blend multiple images together into a single composition. It’s also meant for “people who want to feel like professionals,” Naina Raisinghani, a product manager at Google DeepMind, told The Verge. That sounds good, because I am by no means a professional. For me, the results were glossy, but goofy. It looked good, but felt amateurish.
Using Nano Banana Pro is pretty simple: you go into the Gemini app, select…
