10 Creative Uses for Nano Banana 2 You Haven't Tried Yet
Beyond "Just Generate an Image"
Most people use AI image generators for one thing: turning a text prompt into a picture. Nano Banana 2 is capable of much more. Here are ten use cases that creative professionals, marketers, and developers have discovered — many of which will change how you think about AI-generated visuals.
1. Brand Mood Boards in Minutes
Upload your brand guidelines (color swatches, font screenshots, existing assets) as reference images and prompt Nano Banana 2 to generate lifestyle imagery that matches your brand aesthetic. What used to take a designer half a day now takes minutes.
2. Product Visualization Before Manufacturing
For e-commerce founders and product designers — generate photorealistic product mockups before spending money on prototypes. Upload rough sketches or 3D renders as references and describe the final product.
3. A/B Test Ad Creatives at Scale
Marketing teams can generate dozens of ad creative variations with different visual styles, subject placements, and background treatments — all from a single creative brief. Test what resonates before committing to a full production shoot.
4. Children's Book Illustration
The character consistency feature makes Nano Banana 2 uniquely powerful for illustrated storytelling. Lock in a character's appearance with reference images and generate scene after scene while keeping your protagonist visually consistent.
5. Interior Design Concept Visualization
Upload a photo of an empty room and prompt the model to furnish and style it in different aesthetics — Scandinavian minimalist, industrial loft, Japanese wabi-sabi. Show clients realistic visualizations without hiring a designer.
6. Social Media Content Calendars
Generate an entire month's worth of on-brand social images in a single session. Maintain visual consistency with style references and batch-produce content that looks cohesive across posts.
7. Historical and Cultural Imagery for Education
Nano Banana 2's Google Search Grounding feature allows it to reference real historical contexts. Generate accurate visual representations of historical periods, cultural events, and geographical locations for educational materials.
8. Game Asset Concepting
Game developers use multi-image input to establish consistent art styles and generate conceptual assets for characters, environments, and items. It's a rapid prototyping layer between creative direction and full production art.
9. Custom Greeting Cards and Personalized Gifts
Generate hyper-personalized illustrations — a watercolor portrait of someone's pet, a stylized map of a meaningful location, a custom birthday scene — for cards, prints, or digital gifts.
10. Localized Marketing Imagery
Using Nano Banana 2's bilingual prompt support, global marketing teams can generate culturally localized imagery for different markets. The same campaign concept can be visually adapted for Chinese, Western, and other audiences by adjusting cultural context in the prompt.
The creative potential of Nano Banana 2 keeps expanding. Have a use case we haven't covered? Share it in the community.