Nano Banana 2: text, structure and style transfer
Google's Nano Banana 2 is the model to reach for when the picture has to contain readable text or hold a rigid layout — infographics, manga pages, storyboards, thumbnails.
Real results
Made in solorender with these models. Nothing retouched.
Best for
- ✓Text inside the image — labels, headings, signage — rendered cleanly enough to read
- ✓Highly structured layouts: infographics, comic and manga pages, multi-panel storyboards
- ✓Style transfer that keeps every character and background element recognisable
- ✓Loose prompts. It reasons about intent, so a short brief often beats a long one
Where it struggles
- —It leans documentary-real. If you want stylised, dramatic or period-camera looks, FLUX 2 Pro is the stronger pick
- —It will sometimes redraw a real person's face a little. For likeness-critical work use Ideogram Character
- —Faces of background crowds occasionally come out blurred
Prompts that work
Each one opens the studio with the prompt already in the box. They are also one click away inside the app, under the prompt field.
Style transfer
Try it →Transform this scene from anime to photorealism.
Short is enough — it keeps the characters and background consistent on its own.
Product shoot
Try it →Realistic photo shoot of the product in an unexpected environment.
Deliberately vague on the setting — the model picks something better than you would.
Model + product
Try it →The woman is posing in a professional photo shoot with the product. Close shot of the product.
Feed it two images (person, product) and it composes them into one shot.
4-panel storyboard
Try it →Create a storyboard of this scene with four panels. Another character enters and the scene gets intense.
Works far better on a tall canvas than a wide one — pick a vertical size.
Infographic
Try it →Create a beautiful infographic of the life cycle of a star. Describe each stage in detailed text.
This is the model's party trick: many labels, all of them legible.
Manga page
Try it →Create a full manga page in a modern action style.
It handles panel gutters, speed lines and lettering in one pass.
Fix a thumbnail
Try it →Make this thumbnail more engaging and change the layout.
Give it your own draft thumbnail. It re-composes rather than just recolours.
Cinematic close-up
Try it →Create an ultra cinematic photorealistic close-up of a sailor in foggy seas.
Why a vaguer prompt often wins
Most image models reward specificity: the more you pin down, the closer you get. Nano Banana 2 partly inverts that. It reasons about what you are trying to achieve, so an under-specified brief leaves it room to make a better decision than the one you would have written.
The practical habit: run the short version first, look at what it invented, then pin down only the parts you disagree with. That also costs less — you are not burning credits on four near-identical variants of an over-constrained prompt.
Steering without a negative prompt
Nano Banana 2 doesn't accept a negative prompt, so the Avoid box doesn't appear when it's selected. Anything you want to avoid has to be expressed as the thing you want instead.
So rather than a negative of "cartoon", write "photographed on a full-frame camera, natural skin texture, shallow depth of field". The positive phrasing is more reliable anyway — you are telling the model where to go, not fencing off where it cannot.
Some models do have an Avoid box under the prompt — Ideogram and Wan 2.7 for pictures, Kling, Veo and PixVerse for video, Lyria for music. Treat it as a nudge, not a ban: let the positive prompt do most of the work and use the box for stubborn leftovers like text, watermarks or extra fingers.
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