Gen AI App Series

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image - Nano Banana [Gen AI App Series]

Claire Prudhomme
Duration: 22 minutes
Date Released: September 2025
Course Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Are you looking for an AI tool that provides consistent visual storytelling and a simplified creative workflow? Let us introduce you to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), an AI tool that simplifies the process of creating and editing images.

Welcome to the Gen AI Apps Series, a series of rapid-fire, expert-led reviews designed to help you make fast, informed decisions about the latest AI tools. In this installment, we explore Google Gemini's 2.5 Flash Image, also known as Nano Banana, which is a conversational-based generative AI tool that enables users to manipulate, create, and edit images. This review shows you how the tool goes beyond simple image generation and works as a collaborative partner to maintain consistency across multiple scenes.

What You’ll Learn

This review will teach you how to:

- Use a simple, descriptive prompt to generate an image.
- Manipulate the background, object, and subject of an image while maintaining consistency.
- Combine multiple images into a single image.
- Test the tool's ability to maintain character consistency across different contexts.
- Evaluate the tool's ability to render and edit legible text.

Key Questions Addressed

This review is structured to give you answers to the most important questions about this new technology, including:

- How does the conversational, multi-term workflow make it easier to refine and edit images?
- How well does the tool handle character and product consistency across different scenes?
- How does the tool handle complex tasks, such as re-contextualizing a person or an object?

Who It’s For

This review is designed for:

- Content Creators: Anyone who needs to create consistent visual stories or campaigns and wants a tool that simplifies the creative process without needing extensive photography or graphic design experience.
- Marketers and Business Owners: Those who want a fast and easy way to create product mockups and ad creatives on the fly to save on production costs and timelines.
- AI Enthusiasts: Anyone curious about the practical application of generative AI tools and how they are evolving to solve persistent frustrations, such as character consistency.

What You’ll Do

During this review, you will:

- Watch a hands-on demo of Nano Banana where we work through multiple prompts to test the model's capabilities.
- See the tool's multi-image fusion, text creation, and character re-contextualization feature in action.
- Explore various prompt examples to inspire your own use of the tool.
Meet Your Instructor

Claire Prudhomme

Claire Prudhomme is the Marketing Manager of The Artificial Intelligence Show at SmarterX, where she produces multimedia content to help people better understand how AI is shaping marketing and business. With a background in content strategy, photography, and video production, Claire approaches teaching with a storyteller's mindset, making complex ideas feel relatable, relevant, and worth tuning into.

Marketing Manager, SmarterX