You know the moment when you have a clear picture in your head, but your AI tool keeps missing the tone, getting the text work, or not providing the consistency you need. When you’re moving fast, you don’t have time to keep regenerating and guessing. You need images that hit the brief, keep the characters consistent, and render the text you can actually use. With well-structured Nano Banana prompts, you can do just that and get results that match your creative direction. Nano Banana Pro is built for that kind of work.
Powered by Google Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro brings studio-quality creative control into your workflow. It understands nuance, handles complex visuals, and lets you integrate text and multi-image compositions with precision. While Google provides technical overviews and prompting tips, we’ve adapted those insights specifically for Artlist creators, so you can get incredible results without leaving your workflow.
Why Nano Banana Pro matters for creators
Nano Banana Pro is designed to bring many benefits to your creative process. Google has published technical details and further explanations on Gemini 3.
- Depth and nuance: The model interprets context, style, and scene details with subtlety.
- Consistency: Characters, props, and environments maintain continuity across multiple renders.
- Studio-level creative control: Camera, lighting, aspect ratio, text integration, and multi-image composition give you professional-grade results.
This all makes Nano Banana Pro ideal for concept art, editorial-style visuals, infographic-heavy designs, or any project where precision matters.
The anatomy of a professional prompt
When you build a Nano Banana prompt, think of it like giving the model a full production brief. Structure prompts with these components: subject, composition and framing, action, location, style, and editing instructions. Be specific, especially with camera and lighting. Artlist’s aspect ratio dropdown helps lock framing for video and social formats.
Subject: Describe the central figure, object, or group, including key visual traits.
“A street photographer, mid-30s, male-presenting, olive skin, salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a worn leather jacket and grey beanie, holding a vintage Leica.”
Composition and framing: Specify shot type, POV, and aspect ratio.
“Wide 16:9, three-quarter length, low-angle shot, subject at left third, shallow depth of field, city skyline softly out of focus.”
Action: Use active verbs to describe motion or interaction.
“Mid-stride, stepping off a curb, adjusting camera strap while looking toward the sun.”
Location: Be precise about environment, era, and mood.
“Rainslick cobblestone alley at golden hour, warm backlight, neon café sign reflected in puddles.”
Style: Include visual references, film stock, era, or artist influences.
“Modern Kodak Portra film look, cinematic contrast, muted teal-and-amber color grade, clean editorial style.”
Editing instructions: Include post-processing, retouching, text, or compositing guidance.
“Add realistic film grain, slight lens flare from backlight, remove small blemishes, preserve natural skin texture.”
Editing instructions tell the model how to refine your image and bring the final details together. This is one of the places where Nano Banana Pro shines, especially when you need visuals ready for video or publication.
If you need text in the frame, spell out exactly what appears and how it should look, everything from font choice to placement. For example:
“Male-presenting dancer in his mid-20s with a shaved fade, wearing a red windbreaker. 9:16 portrait, low-angle medium shot, 35mm lens look. Dancing mid-motion under a flickering streetlight in a narrow alley at night. High-contrast neon reflections, gritty film texture. Add the text ‘NIGHT SHIFT’ in bold white condensed type at the bottom.”
For diagrams or infographic-heavy designs, call out the need for factual accuracy and structure upfront. The more precise you are, the less the model has to infer.
Instead of asking for a “scientifically accurate diagram,” spell out the components, layout rules, and visual hierarchy. For example:
Prompt:“Create a technically accurate, labeled cross-section diagram of a modern full-frame mirrorless camera sensor. Show distinct layers from front to back: cover glass, micro-lens array, color filter array (RGB Bayer), photodiodes, wiring layer, and sensor substrate. Use a flat, modern vector illustration style with clean lines and no textures. Labels in black sans-serif text with leader lines. 16:9 horizontal infographic layout with generous margins and clear visual hierarchy.”
This kind of prompt reduces guesswork and gives Nano Banana Pro exactly the constraints it needs to deliver a usable, publication-ready visual.
If you’re using uploaded reference images, define the role of each one so the model doesn’t make assumptions. You might write, “Use Image A for the subject’s face, Image B for the illustration style, and Image C for the forest environment.”
Treat lighting and camera direction like a real production. Explain where the key light sits, how shadows fall, and whether you want haze, bloom, or flare. Something like “Soft key light from camera-left with a subtle rim light on the shoulders and a faint atmospheric haze to catch the backlight” gives the model a clear blueprint for the mood.
Nano Banana Pro prompting in action
Add all the pieces up, and you get the full prompt. This example shows how effective Nano Banana Pro prompting can be when all the components work together. The result is an incredibly detailed image, which we then quickly turned into a video with the click of the Animate button on Artlist, using Veo 3:1 Fast, 16:9 aspect ratio, in full HD.
“A street photographer, mid-30s, male-presenting, olive skin, salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a worn leather jacket and grey beanie, holding a vintage Leica, wide 16:9, three-quarter length, low-angle shot, subject at left third, shallow depth of field, city skyline softly out of focus. He is mid-stride, stepping off a curb, adjusting his camera strap while looking toward the sun. The environment is a rainslick cobblestone alley at golden hour, with warm backlight and neon café signs reflected in puddles. Style is modern Kodak Portra film look, cinematic contrast, muted teal-and-amber color grade, clean editorial style. Add realistic film grain, slight lens flare from backlight, remove small blemishes, and preserve natural skin texture.”
Limitations to keep in mind
While Nano Banana Pro is powerful, Google is still working on perfecting the model. So when creating, it’s helpful to have these practical boundaries in mind.
- Small text and fine detail: Tiny or dense text may not render perfectly. Always zoom in and check spelling, spacing, and clarity.
- Data accuracy: For diagrams, maps, or any data-heavy image, double-check accuracy. The model can approximate details or simplify layouts.
- Translations and localization: While it handles multilingual text well, it may still miss grammar nuances, idioms, or cultural conventions. Make sure to review before publishing!
- Complex edits and image blending: When you combine multiple images or try to change the lighting in a big way, the results can look slightly off or unnatural. A quick touch-up in post usually fixes it.
- Character continuity: Consistency across multiple edits is improved, but not perfect, so lock in reference details when needed.
Time to put Nano Banana Pro to work
Even with improvements needed, Nano Banana Pro still brings a new layer of precision and creative control into your Artlist AI workflow. The more intentional your prompts, the more accurate and cinematic your results will be. Following the guidelines above, with clear structure, strong direction, and smart use of references, you can create visuals that feel consistent, professional, and ready for video production. Get started today with Nano Banana Pro in the Artlist AI Toolkit.
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