ChatGPT’s New Image Editing vs Google Nano Banana Pro

All right. So, what you see here is a new chat GPT update uh which lets you do all your image editing from this new tab. And all of this comes with a new model. I gave it this base image and I said make me Santa and like not a long prompt just like very simple. And this is what it came up with. The belt is is this normal? No, that's uh that's not great. But the rest is I must say it's pretty good. I don't I don't know. I I like it. It it's preserving so much of the original image and even like the the teeth shapes are really like preserved. So I don't want to judge it based on one image. We'll go through some examples uh together, but that one looks pretty good. Now, compare this to something from Google. This is from Google uh Nano Banana Pro. Oh, wow. Same image, same exact prompt. And we see how different it is. You know, that's not good. That's not good. Well, depending on what you want, uh, or like what you were asking. I I didn't specify anything. It's so generic, my prompt, and that's kind of also bad, but it's more realistic how people would probably use it, especially nonpros. Um, so what it's doing here, I find it to be good in some aspects. For example, it's turning me more old. Uh, in the tread GPT example, my face is not really old, but I have like kind of like some old aesthetics somehow, but here, um, it's an older version of me. Anyway, uh, the chat GPT1 is much closer. The image is much more preserved. The Google one is kind of like more I would say it makes more sense if it would be like me actually as Santa. Anyway, like it's a tab inside of your chat GPT uh conversations. So, it just lives here. You see your old images and the whole interfaces here and they are showing what it can do. I do find it quite hilarious that this person is literally manufacturing their life. Like is this is this the image we excuse the pun, but is this the image that we want to portray that you were in this jumper with your nan versus that jumper with your nan or do you know they're creating images of a life that they haven't lived and it's like what you know I don't see the point. So with the astronaut ones I totally get it. It's quite funny. It's it's like memeable but for family you know. Uh but yeah, I fully agree like those others it it's very cringey. So here uh from uh party to live stream. So here they have the like these three characters and you can say mix them and the result is pretty good. Still fun. Is this is this what professionals are using? Not that they I would say professionals. I I would say so. I think you you would need like for image editing like things that you would do in old Photoshop, you would remove things and add things together. Uh I used to do a bunch of things like this in Photoshop. So I think this is more like a fun example, but the the basis I believe it makes sense. Um anyway, here they give another example and you can you can go on and edit. So you see you you start with a prompt. That's the image. And then they say um make the shirt red, his hat yellow, and uh the spit limit is 15 and the truck a fire uh and yeah a fire truck. So you see from the image that it generated, it creates a new image and it's preserving pretty much everything. Like you see the Hollywood uh sign in the distance, it's still the same. That is quite interesting to me how they do it. I don't exactly know how technically they do it because like they're preserving a lot of the information pretty much as is as if it's they're like keeping those and the new layer is just like those it's like a selection tool as almost and the the regenerated one is like these new things. Uh, and of course, like you can you can go and just add more stuff, uh, which they do, and then put it on a shirt. RIP mockup tools, by the way. Oh, yeah. Officially, right? Yeah. Last week was uh the time where I like I unsubscribed to one of one image mockup tool that we were still subscribed to. I still have it for another year, another 6 month, but I'm not going to use it. Uh I'll probably just use Nano Banana Pro. You You saw I have Hicksfield. Uh we're going to just use uh that. Um Hicksfield, if you're watching, uh you get in touch. You might want to sponsor. I I I'm enjoying your product a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I'm enjoying their and I I literally paid out of pocket. So I'm they are not like endorsing this. I I'm a paid user. So they give a few more examples and I like these uh examples. Uh they are like very different styles but yeah I mean in summary it's it's it's it's pretty good. It's not it's not terrible, you know. Yeah. Uh what I like is comparing it to the previous model. So this is what I think like our viewers like probably find the most interesting is how does it compare to previous? Do you think that though? Because I think going back to last week I think people are tired of like new model new. Where is it where does it stand amongst the options that they have to play with right now? Don't you think that's more interesting? I I think this is the example that they had and if they if you see like this is what it can do better, it gives you a good idea of where we are. That's what I'm saying. But as we saw, and if you want the short answer, Google Nano Banana Pro still is better. I've seen some examples like comparisons. Nano Banana Pro still has like the a slight edge. Not by a long shot, but still visible. Man, that was quite bad. That was quite bad. And we know this is like very much HGBT image like this. They have this distinctive look. It's just so clear to GPT. Uh, and the new one is closer on Nano Banana Pro, but not there. 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