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Google’s updated its Gemini app (and website) to make image generation a bit more intuitive, and for once, what I previously wrote off as a novelty might now actually be a viable Photoshop alternative. There’s still some typical AI junk, but the new model, tested under the name “nano banana” and now live for all Gemini users as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, does a lot to let you fine-tune an image to your liking. Everything still has a watermark and “made with AI” warnings in the metadata, but get ready to be a lot more discerning over whether a photo is real or not—the new Gemini blurs those lines more than ever before.

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