Photoshop has introduced new partner AI models (Flux Context Pro and Gemini 2.5/Nano Banana) that significantly enhance generative capabilities, allowing users to perform complex image manipulations, create content from scratch, and achieve professional results with greater ease and precision.
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Want to see how an outfit will look on
you? Turn day into night, change the
text in an image, mock up your logo into
a product, or annotate an image to
instruct Photoshop how to adjust it. Now
you can with the new partner models that
Photoshop offers. I've partnered with
Adobe to show you how they work. I can
guarantee that in this video you will
learn techniques that almost no one
talks about and how to leverage these
new models to achieve prolevel results.
I'm Jesus Ramirez. Let's get started. To
start, I will press the M key to enable
the rectangular marquee tool. With these
partner models, it's much better to
create loose selections around the
objects you want to edit. Then from the
taskbar, you can click on generator
fill. And this is where the magic
happens. From this icon, you can now
select partner models. The two new ones
in the Photoshop beta are Flux Context
Pro and Gemini 2.5, aka Nano Banana.
That's the one I'll select. A model is
the brain behind generative AI. Each
model thinks differently, which is why
Photoshop gives you options. Switching
models allows you to pick the one that
fits best for the task at hand or
compare them to see which of them gives
you the best results. Each model has its
own way of understanding prompts, so how
you talk to them matters. Nanobanana
understands commands and can make
targeted changes like swapping colors,
objects or text while maintaining the
original image consistent. So you can
type a prompt like turn the sweater red.
When you generate you will see that
Photoshop returns the same sweater in
red. And to me that is just incredible.
Let me know in the comments if you find
this as amazing as I do. And the best
part is that this is the same sweater
with the same wrinkles, same folds, and
design. Everything is the same but in
red. And that's not even the crazy part.
This is a Google model, so it has
extensive knowledge. Instead of giving
it a general term like red, you can give
it specifics. For example, from the
color picker, you can choose any color.
Then copy the hex code
and use that in the prompt. When you
generate, you will see that the sweater
is now using that hex code as the base.
Again, Nano Banana has extensive
knowledge, so you can even use panon
colors. You can copy any panon code,
then paste it into the prompt and
generate. By the way, when you
regenerate, Photoshop will look at the
original image, not the generated
version. Again, the results are just
incredible. As you're watching this,
think about what else you could try.
What other knowledge from Google could
you bring into your prompts? If you
discover something good, drop it in the
comments. I'll show you more examples
that take more advantage of this a
little later. But before we get there,
here's the real game changer. With these
partner models in Photoshop, you still
have access to all your traditional
tools and skills right at your
fingertips. If this is not exactly the
color you want, you can create a hue and
saturation adjustment layer and from the
preset dropdown, choose prominent
colors. Then click on the swatch that
matches the sweater and adjust it as
needed to make it exactly the color you
want. Let's look at another practical
example. Then we'll move on to the
wilder things these new partner models
can do. To remove braces from a photo,
just make a loose selection. No need to
get that close with nano banana. Then in
the generator fill prompt box, simply
type remove braces, then generate. In a
few moments, we will get our generation.
And once again, with very little work,
we were able to accomplish something
that would have taken about 30 minutes
in the past. And to me, that is just
amazing. You can use the eye icon to
compare the before and after. Her mouth
does change a bit, but that's not a
problem. We're in Photoshop, and it
makes it a great partner for Nano
Banana. If things don't quite line up,
all you need to do is fill the
generative layers mask with black to
hide all its contents. Then using the
brush tool, paint with white to
selectively restore the generated
content. Now her teeth look great and
there is no change in her mouth. As you
have seen, Nano Banana is great at
preserving content and that also applies
to faces. Let me show you how to change
facial expressions. But before we get
into it, I need to give you some
context. Nanobanana was created to work
in a chatbox environment where you can
upload a photo and direct the changes
via a prompt to the entire image without
selections like we have to do in
Photoshop. So Nano Banana was fine-tuned
to work in this generator fill workflow,
but we can simulate the environment that
it was designed to work in by simply
selecting the entire image. To do so,
you can press Ctrl+ A to select all in
your canvas. This now becomes similar to
uploading an image to the Google Gemini
chat box. Now that you see the marching
ants around your canvas, you can go into
generator fill and enter your prompt.
But before you do so, here's a tip.
Longer descriptive prompts tend to work
best in these new partner models, but
the space in the contextual taskbar is
not very large. So longer prompts might
be difficult to read. Instead, go into
edit and choose generator fill. Now, you
can use this larger box to better see
and edit your prompts. To save time,
I'll paste the prompt. I won't read the
entire thing, but you can pause the
video and see what it says, or you can
look below in the description where I
will place a link to all the prompts
used in this video. But this prompt is
telling Photoshop to give her a surprise
look and to preserve everything else in
the image. And there you go. She now has
a surprise look. And I think that's how
my face looks right now because I'm
shocked at how well Photoshop recreated
her face with a new facial expression.
Again, the image jumps slightly. It
might not be a big deal. You might be
able to live with it. But if you want to
keep her face and not have the image
jump, we have the same solution as the
problems in the previous example. Select
the layer mask, fill it with black, and
with the brush tool, paint with white on
the mask to selectively reveal the
generated content. And there you go. We
have a surprise face. and the rest of
the image doesn't jump. I would really
appreciate hearing your thoughts on the
new partner models. Leave them in the
comments. I'll try to reply to all of
them. But I think the partner models are
a great addition to Photoshop and they
will definitely change photo editing
forever, especially after you see the
examples coming up next in this video.
Now, let me show you how Nano Banana can
recognize and edit animal expressions.
But before we get to it, I want to share
a tip that's helped me a lot while
working with Nano Banana. Instead of
always pressing Ctrl A to select all,
then navigating to the edit menu to
access generator fill, I recommend
creating a keyboard shortcut for it. To
do this, go to edit keyboard shortcuts.
From here, go into edit, scroll down to
generator fill, and apply a keyboard
shortcut. I use Ctrl AltB for banana.
However, Photoshop will warn me that
this shortcut is taken by a command that
I never use. So, I'll simply click
unaccept. Now, you can use your own
custom keyboard shortcut to bring up
generator fill. And this is the method
that I will use for the rest of the
video. Again, to save time, I'll paste
the prompt. The only changes I made here
are that I added the words dog and happy
to it. When I generate, Nano Banana will
give us a happy dog. By the way, if
you're learning anything new, hit the
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let's look at some of the wildest things
you can do with these models. You can
select all and use your custom shortcut
to bring up the generator fillbox. I'll
paste the prompt and generate. What I'm
telling Photoshop to do is to make it
seem as if the woman was carrying the
man like a baby. And this is really
good. His legs might be a little on the
shorter side, but we can always make
them longer in Photoshop using
traditional techniques. This has so many
applications. How do you see yourself
using it? For me, this is something I
can use on the TV and movie posters I
create. I do this stuff by hand all the
time. Now, let's work with text. In this
case, we'll use the flux model, which
tends to yield better results when
editing text within an image. The goal
is to change the words Reno to Adobe and
the biggest little city in the world to
Photoshop now includes partner models.
And the result is fantastic. The word
Adobe is clearly legible and the tagline
below is just as good. Nano Banana is
great for creating mock-ups for your
logos. All you need to do is select all,
bring up the generated fillbox. I'm
using the Google banana model and tell
Photoshop where you would like to see
the logo. Remember, be descriptive. In
this case, I want to see the logo on a
pink shirt worn by a young skater
sitting on top of a table in an outdoor
skate park. And no surprise, I get just
that with my generation. I highly
recommend that you start experimenting
with these partner models to create
product mock-ups of your designs. And
now, let me show you a trick that
designers are going to love. And if you
do, then make sure you hit the like
button and share this video with a
friend. Start by creating a new document
that is 1080x 1080 with a white
background. And now we're going to
generate an image from scratch. To do
so, select the entire layer by pressing
Ctrl+ A and use your custom keyboard
shortcut to bring up the generator fill
box. Then give it a prompt that tells it
to create a seamless pattern of an
intricate colorful floral design.
And the results are very good. But the
important thing here is that this is a
seamless pattern. And if you're a
designer, you can probably see how
powerful this is, especially when you
combine it with Photoshop patterns. And
let me show you how to do that. Go into
edit and choose define pattern. Give it
a name. Now you can apply this seamless
generated texture as a Photoshop
pattern. Just go to any document, create
a pattern fill layer,
and your newest pattern is always at the
bottom. You can select it. And as you
can see, it's a seamless pattern. I'll
decrease the scale and you'll be able to
see that there are no seams. To me, this
is just amazing. Think of all the images
you can generate to create seamless
patterns for your designs. Let me know
in the comments if you have any ideas.
Now, we're going to create type effects
with the marquee tool. Make a selection.
Then, describe a prompt that uses a word
and how it is created. For example, type
banana using coffee beans. And in a few
moments, you will get that exact result.
And if your brain isn't blown by now,
then you are definitely hard to impress.
But I have a few more examples that
might do the job. Nano Banana is very
good at changing the time of day. In
this image, I will enter a prompt that
describes the time of day, lighting
conditions, and how the background
behaves. Again, look at the description
for the prompts that I'm using. And this
is just an incredible day toight
transformation. The image looks
realistic. I love the reflections in the
water. Everything just looks great. And
time is not the only thing you can
change. You can also change seasons.
I'll give Photoshop a prompt to turn
this photo into a winter scene with snow
on the elephant.
And we have another fantastic
generation. This looks very realistic
and it really seems like the elephant is
walking through snow. Now, let's
organize these six objects into a
composite. I'll bring up the generator
fill box. I'll paste the prompt that
tells Photoshop to create a close-up
image of a desk with all these items
neatly organized on top of it in a
beautiful classic Paris office interior.
And this is a result that's pretty good,
but we're missing two items. So, why
don't we generate one more time to see
if we get a better result.
And sure enough, this looks much better.
We have all six items on a desk in an
elegant office in Paris. Of course, you
can fine-tune the prompt further to
generate better results. Now, let me
show you how to hack Photoshop into
allowing you to use a reference image.
Nano Banana was designed to work in a
chatbox environment where you can attach
multiple images to generate a result. At
this point in time, we cannot do that in
Photoshop, but we can hack it to make it
work. I'll use a photo of myself and I
want to see how this jacket would look
on me. The first step is to expand the
canvas with a crop tool to have both
images visible on screen. Then with the
move tool, you can move the jacket over
to the other side. Make sure the entire
jacket is visible. Also, in my testing,
this works better if we have no
transparent pixels. So, you can fill the
transparent areas with white. Then,
select all, bring up the generator fill
box, and type your prompt. I will paste
a prompt that tells Photoshop to keep
everything the same, but put the jacket
on me. And the generation looks very
realistic. Everything matches. Lighting,
perspective, color. It all looks so
good. Now, all you need to do is crop
the image to the previous size. And this
is my final result. Now, we're going to
work with a photo of my grandparents,
which was shot in the 1950s. It's
strange to think about that I'm older
today than they were when this photo was
taken. But the goal here is to restore
this photo. I'll use the same technique
to bring up generator fill. And you can
simply type the words restore this photo
and generate.
The results are fantastic for one click.
And of course, the image is not perfect.
There are some imperfections that we
need to fix, but a lot of the hard work
is already done. Now, you can treat this
as a traditional Photoshop job. Create a
new layer and use the spot healing brush
tool to remove any imperfection.
And by the way, you can take the image
into a completely new level by
leveraging your traditional Photoshop
skills. I spent about another 30 minutes
applying other Photoshop adjustments and
it looks much better. And here's
something very cool. I took the image
into Adobe Firefly and placed it as a
starting frame and used the Google V3
partner model to generate a video. Then
I added sound effects in Adobe Premiere
I think that you're beginning to see
that you can now create almost anything
you want with this new technology and
with your traditional skills. I'm really
curious to know what ideas you're
getting after watching these examples.
I'm sure you're thinking about a lot.
Remember what we discussed earlier? How
Nano Banana has Google's knowledge
behind it. Well, we can use it to create
some very interesting things. For
example, it can recognize items in your
photos and annotate them. In this case,
we can use it to highlight the Empire
State Building and annotate five fun
facts about it. Then include the words
fun facts at the bottom. The generation
highlighted the Empire State Building
and shared the five fun facts about it.
I'm not sure if these are accurate.
We'll have to double check, but the fact
that you can mock this up so quickly is
just astounding to me. What do you
think? Also, this helps illustrate the
nano banana understands the content in
your image, which means that you can
annotate it with instructions for it to
follow. For example, I made some notes
in this image to place the sleeping dog
on the couch, add a blue Turkish rug on
the floor, and place me sitting on the
couch with my legs crossed. By the way,
I'll show you how to generate an 80s
version of yourself a little later on.
Then you can bring up generator fill and
type complete the prompts in red. Then
remove the red prompts and sample
images. Telling Nanobanana to remove the
red prompts is sometimes necessary
because it may leave them behind. And
I'm always surprised to see how well
this tool does. Notice how the dog is
sleeping on the couch. I'm sitting on it
with my legs crossed. And we have a blue
Turkish rug on the floor. This is just
unbelievable. We're definitely living in
the future. There is so much you can do
with these new models that I don't have
enough time in a day to show you
everything. But I can quickly show you a
few more examples with prompts applied
to my portrait. I hope that they inspire
you to open up Photoshop and come up
with your own. Keep an eye out in the
properties panel to see the prompt I use
or look below in the description.
Everything is in the same generative
layer. In this first example, I changed
the perspective of the photo. The prompt
I used was give me a view from above
looking down on this image and it just
looks fantastic. It's the same photo but
from a different angle. I'm wearing the
same clothes and it is the same scene.
It's just incredible. Here's another one
where I added to the prompt. Keep the
same pose so that my body would have the
same pose as the original.
Unfortunately, I put my hands behind my
back. So, not quite the same pose.
Remember, if you don't generate what you
want, try a different prompt or keep
generating until you get something that
is closer to what you had in mind. And
as I promised earlier, I took that photo
of myself and I asked Nano Banana to
make it look like I'm from the8s. And
this is the result that it gave me. It's
fantastic and I really, really like it.
My hair looks great. What do you guys
think? And then I asked it to generate a
full body professional portrait of
myself. I think I look great in a suit.
I'm sure you won't disagree. You can
also place things in water just by
telling Nano Banana to flood the entire
scene. Also, before we continue, I'm
going to let you know that I have an
upcoming in-depth Photoshop AI course.
The link is in the description if you
want to learn more about generative AI.
I'm a big fan of the Terminator movies.
So, I asked Nano Banana to place me in a
dystopian future and to make me look
like a damaged Terminator, and that's
the result they gave me. I think it
looks great. You can also zoom out out
of any image in the prompt. Simply type
in zoom out. In this case, I also told
it to show my entire body. It did a
really great job. You can see the tree
that's coming out of my head here and
the car in the background are all found
in the original image. There's the tree.
There is the car. And Nano Banana simply
zoomed out. It looks really, really
good. Nano Banana is also great at
replacing backgrounds. In this image, I
simply asked it to place me in front of
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. And
this was the result. It looks so
realistic. In this prompt, I asked for
an image where I was sitting on top of
the W in the Hollywood sign and to keep
me in scale. However, this is definitely
not up to scale. That W is way bigger
than I am. But the composite still looks fantastic.
fantastic.
One of my favorite shows of all time is
Friends. So, I asked Nano Banana to
place me next to Jennifer Aniston in the
coffee shop Central Park. and it did a
really good job. And I think we should
all have someone who looks at us the way
Jennifer Anderson is looking at me in
this photo. And finally, I asked Nano
Banana to make me into a comic book
drawing with a thought bubble that says,
"This is bananas." And it even added an
emoji. It is really, really good. Let me
know what you guys think in the comments
below. And if you made it this far, like
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