Kids in a pumpkin patch - image in Canva and Nano Banana

Use Canva to Guide Nano Banana: A Simple Step-by-Step Tutorial

If you’ve used Nano Banana, Google’s AI image generation tool, you know it’s currently blowing away everything else on the market. And you’re probably getting better at prompting.

But did you know that you can use Canva to make Nano Banana give you the images you want?

  1. Open an image in Canva.
Canva with photo

2. Draw a rectangle (R key) highlighting the area you want to modify.

3. Change the rectangle color to transparent/none and the border to green.

4. Add a text box (T key) and write what you want changed.

Canva with image and instructions

5. Select the image, rectangle, and instruction box.

6. Right-click to pull up menu and select Download Selection

7. Then go to Nano Banana and start a new conversation.

8. Add your image and include the prompt:

Read the green text in the image and make the modifications. Remove the green text and boxes.

9. Wait a few seconds and check out your new image!

It’s that easy.

You can also run multiple commands at the same time.

If you’re looking for more control and you have Photoshop, the beta version of Photoshop (27.0.1) has the ability to use Nano Banana as your generative AI model when editing photos.