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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena! Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111

It seems like every combination of "nano banana" is registered as a domain with their own unique UI for image generation... are these all middle actors playing credit arbitrage using a popular model name?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://medium.com/data-science-in-your-pocket/what-is-googl... For people like me that don’t know what nano-banana is.

Wow I hate the ‘voice’ in that article - big if true though.

I suspect the "voice" is a language model with a bad system prompt. (Possibly the author's own words run through an LLM, to be charitable.)

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

Do you happen to know some software to repair/improve video files? I'm in the process of digitalizing a couple of Video 2000 and VHS casettes of childhood memories of my mom who start suffering from dementia. I have a pretty streamlined setup for digitalizing the videos but I'd like to improve the quality a bit.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

All of the defects you have listed can be automatically fixed by using a film scanner with ICE and a software that automatically performs the scan and the restoration like Vuescan. Feeding hundreds (thousands?) of photos to an experimental proprietary cloud AI that will give you back subpar compressed pictures with who knows how many strange artifacts seems unnecessary

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

Hope it works well for you!

In my eyes, one specific example they show (“Prompt: Restore photo”) deeply AI-ifies the woman’s face. Sure it’ll improve over time of course.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

That time had arrived a few months ago already with Flux Kontext (https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext).

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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post #37

I love that it's substantially faster than ChatGPT's image generation. It takes ages, so slow that the app tells you to not wait and sends you notification when the generation finishes.

"Generate an image of OpenAI investors after using Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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post #26

I have a certain use case for such image generators. Feed them an entire news article I fetch from bbc and ask it to create an image to accompany the article. Thus far only midjourney managed to understand context. And now this, which is even more impressive. We live in interesting times.

I just tried it inside Gemini with a Medium article. Here's my prompt: "Read the article at this url and provide a hero image that incapsulates the message the author wants to convey: https://bioneers.org/supreme-oligarchy-billionaires-supreme-..."

The response was a summary of the article that was pretty good, along with an image that dagnabbit, read the assignment.

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