How It Was Made, made with Nano Banana 2.1
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Nano Banana 2.1 image edit promptHow It Was Made

An image-edit prompt for Nano Banana 2.1: you upload a picture and this text says what to change.

Fill in the blanks

Change any box and the prompt below updates. Copy it, or make one with your version.

Prompt

Show how the object in image 1 was made: a behind-the-scenes photo of a potter trimming an identical mug on a spinning pottery wheel, clay on the hands. The finished mug from image 1, with the same shape, glaze colour and speckles, sits on the shelf behind among drying pots and tools. Documentary photo, natural window light, shallow depth of field, real hands, no text.

Prompts stay in English, the language these models follow best. Copy it as it is, or change a few words.

Opens Nano Banana 2.1 with this prompt and the example photo. Swap in your own photo and you are ready.

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Settings

Mode
Image edit
Aspect ratio
1:1
Resolution
1k
Input pictures
Your own pictures
Price
From 48 credits

The exact price shows before you generate.

Make your own version

  1. The one odd detail, Show how the object in image 1 was made, is what makes people stop scrolling. Swap it for your own.
  2. with the same shape, glaze colour and speckles is the line that keeps your photo recognisable. Leave it in, whatever else you change.
  3. This is a fill-in template: swap the parts in braces, like {maker}, in the boxes above and keep the rest word for word.

Where this template comes from

Adapted from a prompt by @ZHO_ZHO_ZHO, collected in PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images under CC BY 4.0. PopNow rewrote it as a fill-in template and made the example above.