Lesson Overview

Creating compelling images often means combining elements from different photos—whether you’re placing yourself in a new environment, showcasing a product in various locations, or building marketing assets quickly. In this lesson, you’ll use Google Nano Banana’s combine and remix capabilities to merge multiple photos into a natural, convincing composite. This skill is essential for visual marketers, content creators, educators, and anyone who needs to build images without complex editing software.

You’ll start by uploading chosen images, such as a headshot and a conference room. With a simple prompt, Nano Banana automatically detects the subject and background, blending the lighting and shadows for a seamless match. You’ll see how to replace objects in a scene, like swapping a café mug with a branded one, and ensure all styles align. The tool also lets you remix images for creative outcomes—merging unrelated pictures like city skylines and mountain landscapes—by interpreting your instructions and handling the visual blending process.

This approach saves significant time and effort compared to traditional editing, making it accessible to users at all skill levels. It’s especially helpful for creating marketing images, educational slides, or unique visuals on deadline. Throughout the lesson, you’ll see examples that highlight how to get the best results and how to iterate your approach for more complex combinations.

Who This Is For

If you need to combine photos for work, marketing, creative projects, or personal use, this lesson streamlines the process:

• Social media managers building timely, relevant visuals
• Marketers needing product images in various real-life settings
• Content creators who want to remix photos for blog or video assets
• Educators illustrating lessons or presentations with composite images
• Small business owners updating marketing materials quickly
• Anyone interested in creating imaginative or promotional visuals with minimal manual editing

Where This Fits in a Workflow

Combining and remixing photos is key whenever you need to show people, products, or scenes in new contexts—especially when you don’t have time or resources for new photoshoots. This skill is especially useful at the design or content development stage. For example, if you’re preparing an ad campaign and want to see how your product looks in multiple locations, or you need to update website visuals by placing your team in branded environments, this lesson’s workflow helps you do so in minutes. You can also test creative ideas, such as blending landscapes or creating unique social media images, supporting campaigns with fresh, context-relevant visuals on demand.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Traditionally, blending photos required advanced software like Photoshop, a steady hand for layer masks, and careful adjustment of lighting, angles, and color. Nano Banana automates this process—even for beginners. By simply uploading two or more images and providing a clear, natural-language instruction, you eliminate hours of manual editing. The result: natural-looking composites where shadows, texture, and perspective are intelligently matched.

In real-world use, this means you can create marketing-ready images without hiring a designer or photographer for each variation. For instance, replacing objects in a scene or merging people into new locations is a task that can be completed in minutes instead of days. The tool also makes it easy to experiment—if the first result isn’t perfect, you can adjust lighting, angles, or subject positions with a quick follow-up prompt, building on previous versions until you get the look you want.

Practice Exercise

Try combining two of your own images—such as a portrait and a room interior or a product and a lifestyle setting. Follow these steps:

1. Select and upload both images into Nano Banana, ensuring you have one clear subject and one intended background or setting.
2. Give a specific instruction, such as: “Place the person from the portrait into the room so they look like they’re presenting,” or “Replace the coffee mug on the table with the branded mug from the second image.”
3. Review the generated image. If the blend isn’t realistic—if lighting or angles seem off—send a follow-up instruction like “Adjust the shadows to match the background” or “Change lighting to afternoon.”

Reflection: How does the blended image compare to what you could create with manual editing tools? Which adjustments were most effective for improving realism?

Course Context Recap

Combining and remixing photos builds on your earlier skills in uploading and editing images with Nano Banana. Previously, you explored customizing single photos. With this lesson, you’re expanding your capabilities into multi-image composites, opening up new ways to create tailored graphics and marketing visuals.

Next, you’ll learn how to further refine combined images or explore creative techniques for advanced visuals. Continue through the course to unlock the full power of Google Nano Banana for fast, high-quality image creation and editing.