- Nano Banana 3Photorealistic people for the editorial campaign
- Nano Banana 2.5Can mockups, flavour variations and product visuals
- Adobe FireflyGenerative fill, background replacement and image expansion
- ChatGPTPose, framing and styling extraction from reference photos
I treated it like a real launch. First the brand (logo as a hybrid of AI and hand-drawing), then the flavour system, then the can mockups. Only once the product existed I moved to the campaign. The hard part wasn’t generating images, it was art-directing the brief: Y2K Harajuku styling, beach vibe, 0.5 fisheye, saturated heat. I used ChatGPT to break down reference photos into pose, framing and styling notes, so I could feed NanoBanana precise direction instead of vague prompts. Posed the people first, integrated the cans after, iterated until it looked like a summer drop I’d actually buy.
- Nano Banana 3The rider, the bike and the editorial composition
- ChatGPTPrompt engineering and pose extraction from references
- Hand-builtLayout and composition, the only part not generated
The brief I gave myself: a clean, editorial, vintage-minimal urban bike brand, the kind you’d find in a 90s catalogue. The whole thing was a sequencing problem. First the pose (extracted from references through ChatGPT so I could brief NanoBanana with specifics, not vibes). Then the bike as its own element. Then the rider, described in detail. Then I pushed the model to give me the grain and vintage colour grading inside the same prompt. Wanted to see how far I could go without falling back on Photoshop. Pretty far, turns out. The layout is the only part I built by hand: that’s where my eye matters, not the model’s.
- Nano Banana 3Close-up portraits and full editorial imagery
- Nano Banana 2.5Product bottle, generated as a separate piece
- ChatGPTCreative ideation and prompt refinement
A texture exploration. I wanted to test what close-up portraits could look like with glow, dreamy light, holographic skin and prismatic flares, and how those finishes sit next to product still-life. Reads soft and intentional, with the close cropping letting the lighting do the heavy lifting. A starting language for a real skincare brief.