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Editing photos with instructions

Change any picture by describing the change in plain words.

The Edit lane changes a picture you already have. Give it a photo, type the change — “make it golden hour” — and press Apply edit.

Where
Sidebar → Edit (opens Nano Banana 2 Edit)
Cost
From 2 credits a picture, shown on the button. Edit tools carry a standing discount — the % off tag in the model list.
Saved to
Your Library, automatically
Your photo
A bright, airy apartment in flat daylight.
After “make it golden hour”
The same apartment with warm low sun through the windows and long shadows across the floor.
Nano Banana 2 Edit with one plain instruction. The room, furniture and framing stay the same.

Edit a photo

  1. 1
    Open Edit in the sidebar, or pick the Edit lane in the Studio.
  2. 2
    Under Source image, press Upload a photo, or Library to pick one of yours — search it by name or prompt, or press Show more for older ones. It shows large on the right under Ready to edit.
  3. 3
    Type the change in Prompt: “remove the sign”, “give him a red jacket”.
  4. 4
    For several takes, set Images to 2–4. Each one is charged.
  5. 5
    Press Apply edit.
TipOne clear change per run works better than three stacked ones. See Writing better prompts.

Which picture gets edited

The small preview under Source image always shows the picture that will be edited.

A photo you upload or pick from your Library always wins. If you haven’t set one, the last image you made on this visit is used, and the note reads “Using the last image you generated.”

So a new result doesn’t replace your uploaded photo. To edit a result again, press Library and pick it — your newest work comes first. While a result is on screen, the big panel shows the result, not the source.

Pick an editor

Every editor takes plain-language instructions. They differ in price, speed and how closely they follow you. Each row in the model list shows its price and usual time.

Nano Banana 2 Edit
The best all-round editor, and the one the sidebar opens.
Qwen Edit 2511
Precise changes at a budget price. Has an Avoid box for what to keep out.
Seedream 4.5 Edit · Seedream 5 Flash Edit
Fast, natural changes to objects, styles and backgrounds.
GPT Image 2 Edit · 2.5 Flare · 2.5 Sunburst
OpenAI’s editors, at a flagship price. GPT Image 2 Edit follows instructions most closely; Sunburst gives the most polished result.
Meta Muse Edit
Quick, cheap changes.
Grok Imagine Edit
Re-frames a shot — close-up, wide, high angle — and keeps the character and the look.
Ideogram Character
Keeps the same person in a brand-new scene. Your photo is the reference for the face; the prompt describes the new scene. Has an Avoid box.

These editors have no orientation picker. Nano Banana 2 Edit and the Seedream editors keep your photo’s shape. Ideogram Character always makes a square picture here. To change the shape, use Expand.

GPT Image 2 Edit and Ideogram Character take a minute or more. They wait in line the way video does, and keep going if you close the page.

Add characters, places and styles

Every editor in the list above can take your saved entities as extra reference pictures. Type @ in the prompt and pick one: “put @mia in the driver’s seat”. The editor gets the entity’s pictures, cover first, along with your photo. 🎨 Style adds a look the same way.

The line under the prompt shows what each @name sends. Editors read up to 6 pictures, counting your photo. Grok Imagine Edit reads 3, and Ideogram Character just 1. When the limit runs out, an entity with a description goes in as words instead.

With no source picture set, these editors build a brand-new picture from entities alone: “@mia on @resort-lobby”.

One-job tools

The Edit lane also holds tools with one job: upscalers, the erase brush, and Expand.

More in Creating Images, Video & Audio

Generating images
Make one to four pictures from a prompt, in the shape you need.
Upscaling images
Make a picture bigger and sharper, from a quick cheap sharpen to brand-new fine detail.
Removing objects with the erase brush
Paint over anything and it disappears, with the background filled in.
Expanding an image (outpaint)
Turn a square into a widescreen banner or a story, with the new edges filled in.

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