Nano Banana vs Photoshop: A Fair Comparison
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Date: 2025-09-28
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JosephPlissken
500$ at year software where you need thousands of hours of training with useless IA(firefly) vs 0$ service that anyone can use....
Also this video show a photophop professional using Photoshop with al his knowledge while being a total beginner on prompting as the prompts used are pretty bad, not wven following the nano banana guidelines.
So either you show a total beginner using Photoshop wiith a total beginner using nano banana.
Or you use Photoshop professionally but use nano banana with someone that knows how to do good prompts that gets nanobanana to do what you want to do
If i were Adobe i would be terrified and would deprecate firefly as soon as possible.
Also adobe getting in my personal gallery and deleting my personal photos is a crime...
For the 90% of the ppl Photoshop has no use anymore. Just if you are a professional. But for ppl doing memes or social media content
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500$ at year software where you need thousands of hours of training with useless IA(firefly) vs 0$ service that anyone can use....
Also this video show a photophop professional using Photoshop with al his knowledge while being a total beginner on prompting as the prompts used are pretty bad, not wven following the nano banana guidelines.
So either you show a total beginner using Photoshop wiith a total beginner using nano banana.
Or you use Photoshop professionally but use nano banana with someone that knows how to do good prompts that gets nanobanana to do what you want to do
If i were Adobe i would be terrified and would deprecate firefly as soon as possible.
Also adobe getting in my personal gallery and deleting my personal photos is a crime...
For the 90% of the ppl Photoshop has no use anymore. Just if you are a professional. But for ppl doing memes or social media content
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piximperfect
Hi Unmesh,
I’ve been following you for a long time and I really appreciate the work you do. I’m a matte painter and visual artist with a classical background in Photoshop. Of course, in order not to fall behind, it’s our duty to study new technologies, but I fully agree with you that at the moment even Nano Banana cannot surpass the levels a Photoshop professional can reach.
However, I’ve been testing the new script developed by Rob De Winter that integrates Nano Banana directly into Photoshop, and I must say that in some cases it can be very helpful, especially because it allows you to work on selected portions of the image without losing resolution (or at least without losing too much of it).
I’d really love it if you could make a video about this script, as I find it very interesting. Thanks in advance.
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Hi Unmesh,
I’ve been following you for a long time and I really appreciate the work you do. I’m a matte painter and visual artist with a classical background in Photoshop. Of course, in order not to fall behind, it’s our duty to study new technologies, but I fully agree with you that at the moment even Nano Banana cannot surpass the levels a Photoshop professional can reach.
However, I’ve been testing the new script developed by Rob De Winter that integrates Nano Banana directly into Photoshop, and I must say that in some cases it can be very helpful, especially because it allows you to work on selected portions of the image without losing resolution (or at least without losing too much of it).
I’d really love it if you could make a video about this script, as I find it very interesting. Thanks in advance.
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tdfilmstudio
The whole point is to combine the power of Nano Banana with Photoshop and other tools. Those who are seeking automatic problem solvers with AI (without manual intervention) and comparing it with traditional tools are missing the whole point. For example, Upscalerenhancer tools like Magnific(paid) or Supir(free) should always be used in combination with AI generated images to bring out their best details.
Considering the high prices of Adobe tools, AI tools are starting to produce far superior results. So Adobe is including such tools in their Firefly board. A photoshop affiliate or supporter will always provide a biased viewpoint in favor of Adobe.
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The whole point is to combine the power of Nano Banana with Photoshop and other tools. Those who are seeking automatic problem solvers with AI (without manual intervention) and comparing it with traditional tools are missing the whole point. For example, Upscalerenhancer tools like Magnific(paid) or Supir(free) should always be used in combination with AI generated images to bring out their best details.
Considering the high prices of Adobe tools, AI tools are starting to produce far superior results. So Adobe is including such tools in their Firefly board. A photoshop affiliate or supporter will always provide a biased viewpoint in favor of Adobe.
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packer_craze
I think the photo restoration bit at the end is the first time I've seen an implementation of AI that I didn't hate. Very niche and not worth the slop which comes along with it, but if this is going to be around long-term it's at least a potentially interesting one that doesn't look like the glossed-encased slop that is most of AI imagery.
Still, will gladly trade away the ability of having AI doing any half-impressive photo restoration for these AI evangelists to shut the hell up with pushing their obnoxious cult for even one single second. Walking into a volcano of doom with a mile-wide smile and trying to take the world with them.
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I think the photo restoration bit at the end is the first time I've seen an implementation of AI that I didn't hate. Very niche and not worth the slop which comes along with it, but if this is going to be around long-term it's at least a potentially interesting one that doesn't look like the glossed-encased slop that is most of AI imagery.
Still, will gladly trade away the ability of having AI doing any half-impressive photo restoration for these AI evangelists to shut the hell up with pushing their obnoxious cult for even one single second. Walking into a volcano of doom with a mile-wide smile and trying to take the world with them.
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pauleasther
Its a toy that can't provide portrait aspect ratio images. This is the banana's reply, I understand your frustration, and I apologize that the image aspect ratio isn't coming out as intended. It seems there's a persistent issue in achieving the portrait orientation despite the explicit instructions.
You are correct that if it's not delivering on that specific request, it's a significant limitation. I will convey this feedback about the difficulty in generating portrait aspect ratio images to the development team.
I am genuinely sorry that I haven't been able to fulfill your request for a portrait-oriented image so far.
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Its a toy that can't provide portrait aspect ratio images. This is the banana's reply, I understand your frustration, and I apologize that the image aspect ratio isn't coming out as intended. It seems there's a persistent issue in achieving the portrait orientation despite the explicit instructions.
You are correct that if it's not delivering on that specific request, it's a significant limitation. I will convey this feedback about the difficulty in generating portrait aspect ratio images to the development team.
I am genuinely sorry that I haven't been able to fulfill your request for a portrait-oriented image so far.
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hduman05
In conclusion, if a profession becomes easier to do, more people will do it, and if there are many more, its value will decrease.
All of this doesn't change the fact that the value of design will decrease.
I'd like to give you a personal example. A client of mine moved to a new job and asked me to design his windows. I quoted a price, but then he went and had AI create a bunch of alternatives without any knowledge. He asked me, Can you prepare just these for printing for less
I was going to research and choose the best option for him, but he ignored these steps, thinking the AI would do them anyway.
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In conclusion, if a profession becomes easier to do, more people will do it, and if there are many more, its value will decrease.
All of this doesn't change the fact that the value of design will decrease.
I'd like to give you a personal example. A client of mine moved to a new job and asked me to design his windows. I quoted a price, but then he went and had AI create a bunch of alternatives without any knowledge. He asked me, Can you prepare just these for printing for less
I was going to research and choose the best option for him, but he ignored these steps, thinking the AI would do them anyway.
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thegreatharrisoni
There's an awful lot of heads down in the sand here. I've been using Photoshop for decades, and for as much as I don't want to see my Photoshop skills be made irrelevant, in a few short years (maybe less), there will be AI models that will be able to do 80% of what Photoshop does as well, if not better, than Photoshop and at full resolution. Adobe is aware of this, and Photoshop will become largely an AI tool. Rather than fight it, professionals would do well to learn it and embrace it. If you're not integrating AI into your work flow, you are already beginning to appear in the rear view mirror.
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There's an awful lot of heads down in the sand here. I've been using Photoshop for decades, and for as much as I don't want to see my Photoshop skills be made irrelevant, in a few short years (maybe less), there will be AI models that will be able to do 80% of what Photoshop does as well, if not better, than Photoshop and at full resolution. Adobe is aware of this, and Photoshop will become largely an AI tool. Rather than fight it, professionals would do well to learn it and embrace it. If you're not integrating AI into your work flow, you are already beginning to appear in the rear view mirror.
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lucapasqual3535
Two brief personal considerations, shared with appreciation:For printed materials, a highresolution photograph is still difficult to replace; editing in Photoshopor, even better, a comparable nonsubscription appremains appropriate in this context.For the web, the picture is different: resolution is less decisive, and product contexts can be built via compositing/AI with far lower time and cost.
Accordingly, in my view, certain AI toolsNano Banana included, but not onlyalready stand in for Photoshop on many smaller promo and advertising projects, even if not yet for a worldwide campaign.
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Two brief personal considerations, shared with appreciation:For printed materials, a highresolution photograph is still difficult to replace; editing in Photoshopor, even better, a comparable nonsubscription appremains appropriate in this context.For the web, the picture is different: resolution is less decisive, and product contexts can be built via compositing/AI with far lower time and cost.
Accordingly, in my view, certain AI toolsNano Banana included, but not onlyalready stand in for Photoshop on many smaller promo and advertising projects, even if not yet for a worldwide campaign.
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mrleavemebe4966
I am a photographer and photoshop user. We can keep decieving ourselves because of few, if not negligible limitations of nano banana or we brace ourselves up for impact. Most people will gladly accept these small limitaions than pay us again to have a perfect job especially here in Africa. Even at that, we all know that this AI will only get better and better. No going back. Iphone is fiercely challenging dslrs and with every new releases comes an improvement that closes the gap. Change is the only constant in this world.
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I am a photographer and photoshop user. We can keep decieving ourselves because of few, if not negligible limitations of nano banana or we brace ourselves up for impact. Most people will gladly accept these small limitaions than pay us again to have a perfect job especially here in Africa. Even at that, we all know that this AI will only get better and better. No going back. Iphone is fiercely challenging dslrs and with every new releases comes an improvement that closes the gap. Change is the only constant in this world.
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Nerdygreasemoneky
It doesn't come close to replacing Photoshop. Yet. But what it does do is allow anyone to create an Ad for a product without the Photographer, the lovely Model to hold the product, lighting, Camera, Set, props, and Post Lightroom editing. And it gives you limitless changes and examples, and most are really good, using only an iPhone photo as the original ingest. And this is today, wait another 3 months, and this will be changed again, just like it has been changing exponentially for the past few years.
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It doesn't come close to replacing Photoshop. Yet. But what it does do is allow anyone to create an Ad for a product without the Photographer, the lovely Model to hold the product, lighting, Camera, Set, props, and Post Lightroom editing. And it gives you limitless changes and examples, and most are really good, using only an iPhone photo as the original ingest. And this is today, wait another 3 months, and this will be changed again, just like it has been changing exponentially for the past few years.
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justaguy328
I have an art business and I use AI a lot since I don't possess the skill to draw, but I do know photoshop, illustrator, coreldraw, etc. It allows me to create things that I find beautiful, but for every good result, you're going to get a lot of trash. Even when we get fantastic results with the different AI systems, we still have to edit in photoshop, illustrator, or corel for DXF files. If you want professional results a human being is needed.
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I have an art business and I use AI a lot since I don't possess the skill to draw, but I do know photoshop, illustrator, coreldraw, etc. It allows me to create things that I find beautiful, but for every good result, you're going to get a lot of trash. Even when we get fantastic results with the different AI systems, we still have to edit in photoshop, illustrator, or corel for DXF files. If you want professional results a human being is needed.
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bongkem2723
the resolution is not an issue in the near future, it is easy to fix/upgrade. Now imagine you need the same face but turn right or left, try to do that in photoshop, or try to change the clothes of a model altogether, change the lighting, add a celebrity to the picture, add funiture to a room, 3d model of a house... AI is improving at an insane speed. It's a threat to photoshop, the fact that they have to intergrate AI in photoshop says it all.
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the resolution is not an issue in the near future, it is easy to fix/upgrade. Now imagine you need the same face but turn right or left, try to do that in photoshop, or try to change the clothes of a model altogether, change the lighting, add a celebrity to the picture, add funiture to a room, 3d model of a house... AI is improving at an insane speed. It's a threat to photoshop, the fact that they have to intergrate AI in photoshop says it all.
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matthewjohnson1538
Nano Banana is fun...but it also plants invisible SynthID watermarks inside the image generations, is likely not copyrightable, and probably not a good idea to use for commercial purposes - especially if you're providing these as designs a client is paying for and thinks they own. Something for your corporate execs to keep in mind when they think they're going to replace their marketing department and roll with AI images for everything.
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Nano Banana is fun...but it also plants invisible SynthID watermarks inside the image generations, is likely not copyrightable, and probably not a good idea to use for commercial purposes - especially if you're providing these as designs a client is paying for and thinks they own. Something for your corporate execs to keep in mind when they think they're going to replace their marketing department and roll with AI images for everything.
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c1ark3c
Ok.... photoshop is not dead but every 6 months AI is sticking another knife into it.
But wait there's irony in this video..... the content here is right and correct but it will be part of the next frontier models training run. ..... and because the creator is of a very high quality, standard and widely recognised as such, the neural net will apply this videos suggestions to make all the corrections to the models weights.
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Ok.... photoshop is not dead but every 6 months AI is sticking another knife into it.
But wait there's irony in this video..... the content here is right and correct but it will be part of the next frontier models training run. ..... and because the creator is of a very high quality, standard and widely recognised as such, the neural net will apply this videos suggestions to make all the corrections to the models weights.
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m3nafsy
So if you want use ai for image editing you need to learn how to write prompts not using your years of experience in Photoshop with zero knowledge in ai image generators and want see it make magic with just 3 word like the beginning of the video ai is so sensitive to words so you need to say exactly what you want with every detail you want don't let it to the ai model because its will never make perfect stuff
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So if you want use ai for image editing you need to learn how to write prompts not using your years of experience in Photoshop with zero knowledge in ai image generators and want see it make magic with just 3 word like the beginning of the video ai is so sensitive to words so you need to say exactly what you want with every detail you want don't let it to the ai model because its will never make perfect stuff
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Humboyz
The comparison is absurd, in Photoshop you’re forced to have all the pieces, backgrounds, etc. It’s not appreciated that Nano creates many pieces from scratch. I get the move the content creator doesn’t want to lose their job and tries to make Photoshop look like the winner, but they only point out Nano’s flaws. They’re not playing on equal terms. Absurd
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The comparison is absurd, in Photoshop you’re forced to have all the pieces, backgrounds, etc. It’s not appreciated that Nano creates many pieces from scratch. I get the move the content creator doesn’t want to lose their job and tries to make Photoshop look like the winner, but they only point out Nano’s flaws. They’re not playing on equal terms. Absurd
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mikel81160
A Comparison There isn't one to be made. Forget what the AI preachers are saying AI is wonderful it's going to takeover the world and make everything Perfect NO! You can not compaire NANO Banana (or any other piece of Fruit) to Photoshop. That would be like compairing a Bigwheel (plastic trycycle ) to a Lamborghini Fenomeno
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A Comparison There isn't one to be made. Forget what the AI preachers are saying AI is wonderful it's going to takeover the world and make everything Perfect NO! You can not compaire NANO Banana (or any other piece of Fruit) to Photoshop. That would be like compairing a Bigwheel (plastic trycycle ) to a Lamborghini Fenomeno
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tomidepth8510
This is not honest or comprehensive. For a fair comparison, you should use a detailed and precise prompt for Nano Banana, just like you would for a comprehensive approach. However, in the video, the prompt was given carelessly. Yet, when you edit with Photoshop, you use a comprehensive method, making it very unfair.
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This is not honest or comprehensive. For a fair comparison, you should use a detailed and precise prompt for Nano Banana, just like you would for a comprehensive approach. However, in the video, the prompt was given carelessly. Yet, when you edit with Photoshop, you use a comprehensive method, making it very unfair.
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MrShelby-E10
Remember its an AI which means you need to give detailed instructions to do your job. All the you prompts you gave were like an zero shot prompts, so you got the results like that. But yeah its not replacement to photoshop, not now, but in future it may replace as long as you give detailed prompt.
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Remember its an AI which means you need to give detailed instructions to do your job. All the you prompts you gave were like an zero shot prompts, so you got the results like that. But yeah its not replacement to photoshop, not now, but in future it may replace as long as you give detailed prompt.
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kery-yrek
It’s true that AI is getting better, but since I’ve been learning Photoshop for the past four years and working in design, I now use AI to make my work faster and more efficient. And when AI fails, I combine the good frames it produces with Photoshop to fix the ones that didn’t turn out well.
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It’s true that AI is getting better, but since I’ve been learning Photoshop for the past four years and working in design, I now use AI to make my work faster and more efficient. And when AI fails, I combine the good frames it produces with Photoshop to fix the ones that didn’t turn out well.
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