You Across the Decades, made with Nano Banana 2.1
Example made with Nano Banana 2.1

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Nano Banana 2.1 grid image promptYou Across the Decades

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

Create a 2x2 grid of the person in image 1 in four different decades: 1950s, 1970s, 1990s and 2010s. Keep the face identical in every panel: same features, skin tone and expression. Change only the hairstyle, clothing, photo style and background to match each era, with the film grain, colour cast and studio look of the time. A small year label in each corner.

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

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Make your own version

  1. Keep the face identical in every panel: same features, skin tone and expression is the line that keeps your photo recognisable. Leave it in, whatever else you change.
  2. This is a fill-in template: swap the parts in braces, like {decades}, in the boxes above and keep the rest word for word.
  3. with the film grain, colour cast and studio look of the time sets the whole feel of the shot. Swap it for another camera style to change the vibe.

Where this template comes from

Adapted from a prompt by @AmirMushich, 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.