I tried Google’s new Nano Banana Pro, and it’s the AI Photoshop of my dream

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In its never-ending quest to defeat OpenAI, Google is trying all sorts of tactics to get people to switch from ChatGPT to Gemini. One of its best weapons in this fight is Nano Banana, Google’s AI image generation and editing model. It went insanely viral after launch, so Google has leaned hard on it, promoting it on as many platforms as possible. To maintain this momentum, Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, a significantly improved version of its AI image model. I had the opportunity to test this new model prior to launch, and I think it’s going to become a Photoshop replacement for image editing beginners like myself.

I’ve been using the original Nano Banana for a variety of things since it launched in late August. From modifying our existing stock images to seamlessly add new text, to generating eye-catching thumbnails for our Authority Insights Podcast, Nano Banana has been an immensely useful tool for my work. There’s no doubt that it does an incredible job at creating and modifying images — it wouldn’t have gone viral if it was terrible, after all.




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