Comment by miladyincontrol
8 days ago
Theres lots these models can do but I despise when people suggest they can do edits with "with only the necessary aspects changed".
No, that simply is not true. If you actually compare the before and after you can see it still regenerates all the details on the "unchanged" aspects. Texture, lighting, sharpness, even scale its all different even if varyingly similar to the original.
Sure they're cute for casual edits but it really pains me people suggesting these things are suitable replacements for actual photo editing. Especially when it comes to people, or details outside their training data theres a lot of nuance that can be lost as it regenerates them no matter how you prompt things.
Even if you
Nano Banana is different and much better at edits without changing texture/lighting/sharpness/color balance, and I am someone that is extremely picky about it. That's why I add the note that Gemini 2.5 Flash is aware of segmentation masks, and that's my hunch why that's the case.
Nano banana has a really low spatial scaling and doesn't affect details like other models.
That is true for gpt-image-1 but not nano-banana. They can do masked image changes
Could you just mask out the area you wish to change in more advanced tools, or is there something in the model itself which would prevent this?
That's probably where things are headed and there are already products trying this (even photoshop already). Just like how code gen AI tools don't replace the entire file on every prompt iteration.