India Goes Bananas for Google Gemini
The Nano Banana craze is officially sweeping the world, with way over 500 million images 1 generated globally since launch. The response in India has been incredible, with brands, creators, public figures, and people across the country diving in— making it one of the top countries using the feature globally right now. We’re thrilled to see social media feeds flooded with delightful creations, spanning everything from collectible figurines and retro makeovers to professional workflows and creative art.
Here are some of the popular trends we're seeing online.
Design your own anime, manga, or mecha figures: One of the biggest trends has been designing your own figures and instantly seeing them as realistic models. Users are creating their own miniature universes with versions of themselves, friends, family, and even their pets.
Get the Retro Look: We've seen a huge wave of retro and vintage-inspired portraits. Think warm film grain, dreamy lighting, and soft-focus effects evoking a 90s movie vibe. Users are playing with prompts for light, mood, and fabric details to create surprisingly nostalgic results.
Create a B&W portrait: A classic trend with an AI twist. Users are playing with prompts for light, shadow, and film grain to create timeless, high-contrast, or moody black and white portraits.
Be the master of your scene: Users have been changing up their photos by swapping plain walls for bustling cityscapes and creating consistent characters for storytelling, like turning their pets into heroes of their own animated series.
Become a giant statue: This trend transforms a person's photo into a giant, hyper-realistic statue, while keeping their original facial features consistent.
Become your own stylist: People are visualizing and experimenting with new looks by swapping outfits, styling their wardrobes, and even trying on completely new hairstyles.
Transform the everyday into the extraordinary: The everyday is being transformed into the extraordinary, with users turning random objects into hilarious sitcom characters or reimagining their selfies as classical oil paintings.
Travel Through Time: Creators are seeing what they would look like across different generations, generating realistic age progressions, and picturing themselves in every fashion era imaginable.
More use cases you can try
This is just the beginning. We're already seeing the next wave of ideas emerge. Take a look at more trends you can try with this new model.
Meet your younger self: Create conceptual images interacting with different versions of yourself. [Prompt: Here’s a picture of me as an adult. Create a photo of me as an adult sitting with myself as a child in a playroom having a tea party together.]
Restore Old Photos: Restore and revitalize old family photos and memories. You can also take your creations one step further. Upload your edited image back into Gemini to create a video with Veo 3. [Prompt: Restore and colorize this photo]
Become an avant-garde chef: Visualize a final product from its raw ingredients [Prompt: Turn these ingredients into a refined delicious-looking dessert, inspired by these ingredients. Plate it as if it were a dish at a 5-star avant-garde restaurant.]
Switch your artistic medium: Change a photograph into a completely different art style. [Prompt: Turn this photo into a pencil drawing]
Remodel your world: Completely re-theme a building, landscape, or room. [Prompt: Transform this house into a vibrant tropical island design. Replace the roof with thatch and add bamboo structural elements. Surround it with lush, colorful tropical plants and palm trees.]
Build new worlds: Transform a real photo into a fantasy game map or stylized 3D world. [Prompt: Turn this photo into a map of a stylized 3D world for a fantasy game. Include a village and harbor.]
Go 16-Bit: Reimagine yourself, your pets, or your photos as classic 16-bit video game characters. [Prompt: Recreate this cat as a 16-bit video game character, and place the character in a level of a 2D 16-bit platform video game.]
Tell a visual story: Generate an entire sequential narrative without using any text [Prompt: Prompt: Create a riveting epic 9 part story with 9 images with these two protagonists and their adventures as secret superheroes. The story is thrilling throughout with emotional highs and lows and ending on a great twist and high note. Do not include any words or text on the images but tell the story purely through the imagery itself.]
… and so many more we’ve not even imagined till now. Here are some tips for writing more effective prompts for image generation and editing in Gemini.
As usual, all images created or edited in the Gemini app include a visible watermark, as well as our invisible SynthID digital watermark, to clearly show they are AI-generated. Use the thumbs up and down buttons on your generated images to give us feedback, which we'll use to make ongoing improvements to our safety measures and overall experience.
The energy and innovation coming from India has been incredible to watch. We can't wait to see what you create next!
