Adobe Firefly adds Nano Banana Pro, Gemini 3 – unlimited gens to Jan 2026

Adobe is rolling Nano Banana Pro and Gemini 3 into Firefly’s web editor, Boards, and even Photoshop, and giving Creative Cloud users free, unlimited image generations until January 14, 2026. Adobe Firefly post This matters because Firefly becomes a front door for high-end Google models directly inside Photoshop-style workflows, not a separate playground.

The sponsored thread highlights how you can now drive lighting, camera angles, and color grading with prompts while editing any part of an image at pixel level inside Firefly. Adobe Firefly post One flagship use case is 3D character work: a two-step prompt turns a seated photo into a tan "clothed" clay maquette, then into a naked, high‑poly anatomical base mesh against a Blender-style viewport, giving character artists instant sculpting references. Clay modeling demo

For AI creatives, the combo is: generate look-dev and blockouts in Firefly with NB Pro’s realism and text fidelity, then refine non-destructively in Photoshop, all without worrying about credit burn for the next 13+ months. Firefly page

A specific Nano Banana Pro prompt is blowing up: "Make a 4×4 grid starting with the 1880s" where the same person appears restyled for each decade through the 2030s, including era‑accurate clothing, hair, facial hair, backgrounds, and film stock. Decade grid prompt

The results show a single face evolving from sepia Victorian portraits, to 1940s uniforms, to 1980s neon mullets, all the way to speculative 2030s cyberpunk shots. Decade grid prompt Others are remixing the template with their own photos or even meme faces—one reply turns the infamous Trollface grin into a 12‑panel "through the ages" set spanning black‑and‑white gangster shots to modern smartphone selfies. (Second grid example, Trollface variant) For designers, this is instant "history of" collateral; for storytellers, it’s a clean visual shorthand for character timelines and alternate universes.

A detailed workflow shows Nano Banana Pro acting as both a technical illustrator and lifestyle photographer for a Subaru WRX build. WRX upgrade sheet Starting from a clean studio photo, a prompt asks NB Pro to "modify the car" with rally upgrades and label each performance modification—widebody kit, aero wing, gravel tires, roof scoop, skid plate, roll cage—on a diagram-style contact sheet.

The creator then reuses that upgraded car to request a 6-image studio contact sheet from varied angles, and a 4-image "in action" sheet of the car tearing through snow, wet tarmac at dusk, dusty hairpins, and night rally water splashes, all in consistent livery. Rally contact sheet For automotive designers, advertisers, or game artists, this shows how NB Pro can handle spec sheet diagrams, hero renders, and gritty motorsport scenes from one source image and a few precise prompts.

Creators are using Nano Banana Pro plus a single reference selfie to generate full snorricam-style party narratives—8 to 12 images that follow one person through a day‑long bender. Twelve panel party evolution

The shared prompt asks for a grid of "snorricam-style selfies" where a bald guy in a Lakers tee starts with chill poolside drinks, then the party escalates with smoke, white powder, celebrity cameos, shirtless crowd-surfing, and a bleak, hungover sunrise scene. Twelve panel party evolution A separate 3×3 composition leans into early‑2000s disposable-camera aesthetics with date stamps, motion blur, and harsh flash. Eight frame party grid For meme makers and storytellers, this is basically a one-prompt storyboard for "this party got out of hand" content.

Creators are discovering that Nano Banana Pro will honor GPS coordinates in prompts, placing a consistent character at real-world landmarks without extra reference images. Coordinate prompt In one example, a cartoon guy in a yellow shirt appears first on Google’s Mountain View campus, then in front of the Eiffel Tower, driven purely by coordinates.

The prompt pattern is simple: "Take this character and place him to coordinate 37.4221° N, 122.0853° W, create 1:1 aspect ratio image," then swap in new lat/long for the second frame. Coordinate prompt For designers and storytellers, this is a neat control trick for travel posters, AR mockups, or comics that jump around the globe while keeping character identity and framing consistent.

Nano Banana Pro is being pushed into full DeepDream nostalgia: psychedelic scenes packed with dog faces, swirling eyes, and the word "fofr" subtly embedded in the textures multiple times. Deepdream revival example

Beyond straight style mimicry, the same creator is experimenting with structure-aware prompts: feeding a black‑and‑white contrast map and asking NB Pro to paint a town whose buildings and streets follow those tonal paths, echoing the old DeepDream “pattern-following” feel. Contrast map town They even turn the aesthetic into a physical-looking bronze sculpture head sprouting dreamlike animal forms, showing NB Pro can hallucinate DeepDream both in 2D and as plausible 3D objects. Deepdream sculpture For surreal album art, posters, or narrative beats, this gives you a controllable way to get that classic trippy look in one prompt instead of a multi-step pipeline.

Storytellers are using Nano Banana Pro to convert book pages directly into cinematic storyboard grids, complete with panel composition and era styling. 1984 storyboard One prompt asks for "a cinematic storyboard of the first page of 1984" using widescreen panels, and NB Pro returns a four-panel strip: Victory Mansions exterior at 13:00, a dingy hallway with "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" posters, a stairwell shot with an "LIFT OUT OF ORDER" sign, and a final descent under another looming poster.

A second prompt generalizes the idea: "create a cinematic sequence using multiple widescreen panels grids to tell the story of the imaginative script from the book IT"—and the result reads like a teaser trailer board, from Georgie’s paper boat in the gutter to Pennywise’s eyes in a pipe, the Losers’ Club circle in a cavern, a spider silhouette, and a foggy Derry roadside sign. IT storyboard grid For filmmakers, teachers, and authors, this is a fast way to visualize scenes, tone, and shot variety before moving into proper preproduction tools.

AI Artwork Gen is sharing a prompt template that uses Nano Banana Pro as a style transfer engine for sports fashion brands like Adidas. Adidas style template You feed in a reference image as [@]img1 and ask for a 4‑image grid of editorial fashion shots focused on a brand, specifying "2 × macro, 2 × dynamic action" while keeping the style and palette of the reference.

The same template is reused across examples, with creators swapping in other brands and scenarios but keeping the core structure—brand name, shot types, and "follow the same style and colour palette as [@]img1"—to get consistent, on-brief variants in one go. (Brand prompt reuse, Example links, Second example) For designers working on spec ads or lookbooks, this is a handy recipe to generate moodboards and mock campaigns that feel coherent rather than four random fashion shots.

A tiny but important test: someone asked Nano Banana Pro to show "nano banana pro" written on a fogged-up window, and it nailed both the handwriting and the physics of condensation. Foggy window test

The letters appear where a finger has wiped through steam, with streaky edges, beads of moisture, and a believable out-of-focus street scene behind the glass. Foggy window test For designers fighting models that still mangle text, this is a strong signal that NB Pro can handle in-world typography—signage, scribbles, UI screens—without needing heavy post work.

A clever prompt recipe uses Nano Banana Pro to make landscapes whose terrain literally spells a word, while still reading as a believable painting at first glance. Calm landscape prompt In the shared examples, hills, towers, and ruins form the letters C‑A‑L‑M, yet the scene still works as a moody valley or shoreline.

One version silhouettes the word against a glowing sky with its mirror reflection in water; another sculpts the letters out of rolling green hills and a winding river. Calm landscape prompt This is a powerful trick for subtle typography in covers, posters, and title cards—legible when you look, but not screaming "text overlay" the way traditional compositing does.

Kling 2.5 Turbo is being stretched in two very different directions: tight, readable pixel‑art game loops and straight‑ahead commercial spots. Following earlier clips that showed clean dance moves from a single reference frame dance moves, creators now have Bowser Jr. climbing a retro platformer stage with stable, frame‑to‑frame motion bowser jr pixel climb, plus a Japanese "sell your house" TV ad that uses Kling for the polished, narrative VFX layer while image models handle the static shots real estate cm.

The point is that Kling doesn’t seem locked to one aesthetic: the same engine can keep tiny sprite motions legible in a faux‑SNES game, then switch to cinematic camera moves and product‑driven pacing in a commercial. For indie game devs, that suggests a path to prototype side‑scroller cutscenes or promo footage; for marketers, it shows that AI video can already hit familiar TV language (establishing shots, character beats, end card) without feeling like a glitchy filter.

Creators are using Veo 3.1’s "Instant Cut" option to force a hard cut just before the final frame, letting them reveal new objects or characters without mushy morphing between states. One workflow builds the first and last frames in Nano Banana Pro, then tells Veo 3.1 to jump straight from the old scene to the new one at the end of the shot for a crisp, film‑like transition rather than an interpolation blur veo instant cut tip.

For AI filmmakers and editors, this behaves like a manual edit point inside the generator: you can stage a reveal (new prop, costume, or character entrance) in the last frame, and Veo will play the motion up to that jump rather than trying to smoothly morph between incompatible layouts. Paired with earlier storyboard‑driven Veo 3.1 workflows for animating still frames veo combo shower, this makes the model more useful as part of a traditional editing pipeline, where you treat generations as shots you can time, cut, and assemble rather than one opaque clip.

Grok Imagine is showing range as a style‑driven video tool, with creators pushing it from neon, neo‑retro anime portraits to cosmic energy figures and music‑centric visuals. Building on earlier cinematic experiments lotr tribute that framed it as a shot design engine, today’s clips show it handling expressive character motion, abstract "we are energy in the cosmos" sequences, and piano‑focused cuts that play well with soundtrack timing retro anime demo cosmic clip piano visuals.

For storytellers, the key is that Grok Imagine appears comfortable staying in a strong, cohesive style over a whole 6–8 second beat: the Vampire Lord and Cottage Witch short keeps its 1980s OVA anime look across character acting and cosmic transitions without obvious model "style drift" vampire cottage short. Musicians can also mine it for loopable, high‑impact visuals that feel more like hand‑designed motion graphics than generic stock, especially in genres that suit bold color palettes and simple camera moves.

Pollo AI’s 2.0 model is surfacing as an "effects layer" for small teams who want ad‑like polish without building full pipelines. Creators are using its free, time‑limited templates to drop themselves into champagne service scenes and have branded bottles glide into frame, complete with text overlays champagne effect demo, and to produce perfume‑style product shots that mimic high‑end Western commercials, including macro glass highlights and English supers perfume cm spot.

Beyond those, there’s a wave of Pollo 2.0 holiday effects—Christmas entrances, 3D display illusions, winter fantasy shots, and even mushroom‑trampoline gags—where users only swap in their own photo and a few prompt tweaks christmas video effect pink sea elf demo. For AI creatives, Pollo sits closer to a motion‑graphics preset library than a raw model: you pick an effect, feed it your subject, and get back something structurally similar to a real campaign spot, which is ideal when you need templated but still eye‑catching video on a budget pollo ai site.

PixVerse V5 is getting called out for keeping characters on‑model across full clips, with one creator describing a new test as having "no misses" in terms of look and continuity v5 consistency praise. That feedback sits next to a lighthearted PixVerse piece where a banana character passes a cat’s passport inspection before celebrating, all rendered as a cohesive mini‑story banana passport skit.

For video makers, that consistency matters: it means you can design a mascot or avatar and expect it to stay recognizable as it moves through a scene, not subtly change face, outfit, or proportions between frames. The banana‑and‑cop skit also shows how PixVerse’s image and video tools can work together—design a cast in stills, then animate them into tight, meme‑length stories that are short enough for social but structured enough to feel like a real gag.