SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

In this episode of the Screw the Commute podcast, Tom Antion introduces Nano Banana, Google’s advanced AI-powered image creation and editing tool. He explains that it can be accessed directly through Gemini or via FAL.ai, a platform that hosts hundreds of low-cost AI models.
Tom outlines Nano Banana’s major features:
1. Text-to-Image Generation
o You type a description, and the tool generates an entirely new image.
o More detailed prompts yield better results, though overloading details may backfire.
o It’s extremely inexpensive (often pennies per image).
2. Edit an Existing Image
o Upload a photo and modify specific elements (hair color, clothing, signs, etc.).
o Nano Banana excels at preserving the original image while making small changes—unlike ChatGPT’s image generator, which often redraws everything.
3. “Use Output” Button
o A key feature that allows iterative edits on the same image.
o Tom emphasizes its importance after accidentally regenerating new images (and spending an extra 10 cents!).
4. Redo & Multi-Image Options
o You can ask for several versions at once and choose the best.
o A “redo” button lets you regenerate alternative outputs from the same prompt.
5. Additional Capabilities
o Blend multiple images (e.g., place yourself into another scene).
o Remove people from photos.
o Apply style transformations (cartoon, figurine, superhero, etc.).
Tom notes that AI image tools still struggle with text accuracy, so he often uses the free browser editor iPiccy to refine text overlays.
He encourages listening to Episode 1055 about FAL.ai and previews Episode 1057, which will cover turning photos into videos using a tool called VO3.
The episode closes with reminders about his automation book, mentor program, and his licensed online digital marketing school.

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Episode 1056 – Nano Banana
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.

[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1056 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today we're going to talk about, and we've got a banana theme going here in the last couple of weeks, so this is Nano Banana. This is the crazy name for the spectacular image editor provided to you by Google. So that's what we're going to talk about today. And it's a good idea for you to make sure you listen to episode 1055. That was the last episode on FAL.ai, which is one of the places where you can find nano banana, but I'll show you how to go directly to it if you don't. But, uh, FAL.ai has hundreds of different AI models that you can use for almost nothing. So there you go. All right. Make sure you pick up a copy of our automation book. It's screwthecommute.com/automatefree. Make sure you get version 3.0. That's the latest. And check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com, the longest running, most successful, most unique ever in the field of internet and digital marketing. And a spin off of that is My School, the only licensed, dedicated internet and digital marketing school in the country, probably the world certified to operate by SCHEV, and it is a distance learning school, a quality distance learning school, so you can do it concurrently with other programs you might be in.

[00:01:54] Or if you're working, you can do it in the middle of the night if you want. So that's it, I am. All right, let's talk about nano banana. This is Google's image tool. And if you don't want to go through fallout II, which I suggest you do because you're going to want to do a lot of other stuff with AI. But anyway, if you want to go directly, you go to Gemini. That's where you'll find nano banana. And this is an an image tool. So what can you do with this tool? Well, one thing you can do is you can think up anything you can think of on Earth. Unless it's I don't know, unless it's dirty or something or hateful. I'm not sure. They probably have some limits on it, but you can do what they call text to image. So you just type in what you want the image to look like, and it will create it out of thin air just from what you told it to do. Now, the more specific you can be when you tell it something. The better image you're going to get. However, if you overload it, this is a typical thing. If you overload it with super details, it might be better for you to get the basics down and then keep improving it, rather than trying to give it to it all at once.

[00:03:18] But it's so cheap and free, you know you can do it free, I think through Gemini and like $0.02 through FAL.ai. So it's super cheap, super super, super cheap. So that's text to image. And one of their claims to fame is that if you generate the first image and it's really good, but there's some small changes you want to make. If you're using ChatGPT for this, God help you because it'll do it, but it'll change everything. And and you got to start from scratch again. I mean, it's just very frustrating, even though I have created some pretty good images with ChatGPT. So one of the claims to fame. I'll put air quotes around that because guess what? I screwed up at least $0.10 worth of images because I didn't know this one button to push. I'm going to tell you about it now. But anyway, you can keep editing the same image. You can say, oh well, I don't really like the hair on that one, or I don't really this sign say this instead of that. And it'll keep everything else the same. And then just change that one element. If you've tried ChatGPT, you find that that just doesn't happen. They kick out a new one every time you do anything. However, the reason I blew $0.10 worth of things because I kept redoing running the the prompt with the changes and it came up with a whole new image every time.

[00:04:53] So I didn't realize that there's a button called use output. So after you get the first image, you click Use output and then put a prompt in that says hey, I like this, but change the hair color to red or change the shirt to green or, you know, things like that. And then if you like that and you want to make another change, you say use output and it keeps changing until you get the final one you want. And you might have a dollar if you've done it 25 times. Right. So to like $0.02 or three. Now I think it's $0.04 an image something like that. Okay. So that's the first thing of text to image. So the next thing that'll do is you can upload a photo that you already have or a graphic. And one of the fun ones that I just did on Facebook Stories is I did a prompt. I loaded up a photo with that had my face as part of this superhero series I was doing, and I said, use the face from this picture and then make me a one seventh scale collectible figurine with the toy packaging below me and make sure it's sized properly for Facebook Stories and Instagram Reels. So that was my prompt. And then boom, it came out.

[00:06:26] And if you didn't, if let's say I didn't like that first iteration, there's also a redo button. So you can just it'll make a completely different thing out of the same prompt. And you pick the one you want. You can tell it how many images to make per prompt. So you could say make five images so I can pick the one I like the best out of the the output. So that's using a photo to create a new image. All right. So the next thing it'll do, it'll blend images. So that means you could take one photo from a beach or a beautiful sunset that you like and you say, and then show a picture of yourself as another picture that you upload and you say, put this image in number two on the beach in front of the beautiful sunset, and then boom, it does it right. It's amazing. So that's blending images. Also, you can remove people from a photograph if you don't. If you're sick of your ex and you want to upload your Tinder profile, there you go. Because cut them right out of there and you can make different styles. So you could say, take this headshot of me and make it into a cartoon, or make me into a devil dog. I mean, just anything you can think of. One of the ones I mentioned the other day is I put myself on a cow with a riding, a cow with a football helmet on, I think I did.

[00:08:02] So it's just crazy. All right, so that's nano banana. Again, I really highly suggest you listen to episode 1055 because fault my fault. Ai has hundreds of these places that'll do all kinds of things besides just image. And there's hundreds of them that'll do images, and some do better than others, and some are more expensive or cheaper than others. But they're all super cheap. I mean, the most I've ever paid for a video was $3.75, but that's the outlier. The same video I created in another service was, I think, what was it? It was like $0.08. All right. So so this is crazy the way this is moving, but I highly suggest you use this. Now, one thing I will tell you from a little bit of experience that I have and what a lot of the more experienced people are saying is they're not the greatest for text. And I had to do several different redos to get them to get the text right. And so for years I've been using ipiccy.com. It's totally free. You don't even have to register and I'd take the output from this AI stuff. And if I really wanted to handle the text better, I'd take it into I picky, but you're certainly welcome to say if your text is not complex, you know, just have it.

[00:09:35] Do it right here and you're done. You just download the picture and you're done. So that's nano banana now episode 157. The next episode I'm going to do for you is on. If you, uh, if you want to turn the photo into a video, this is really crazy. And that's VO3 we're going to talk about now. It is a paid service. I'm not sure if they have it in fly yet, but a lot of these ones fly is becoming so popular. A lot of them are saying, hey, put us in there. So that's going to be the next episode, 1057. So watch for that and check out Nano Banana and play with it a little bit, and you'll be amazed at the things you can create. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Check out my mentor program. Greatinternetmarketingtraining.com and my school IMTCVA.org where you'll save a couple hundred grand on going to a four year college that just teaches you how to protest. Pretty much. My school was on internet and digital marketing, and it'll give you a highly in demand scale in six months or less. All right, there we go. Catch you on the next episode.