In my previous post, I investigated different art and photographic styles and showed an example of an art nouveau style applied to an old photograph of myself and a friend. See blog post titled Different Art Styles. In this post, I'd like to apply some other effects to the same photograph. Even before my Deep Research article I'd applied three other effects. See Figures 1, 2 and 3.
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Figure 1: Aubrey Beardsley style |
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Figure 2: Vincent Van Gogh style |
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Figure 3: psychedelic style |
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Figure 4: Art Deco style |
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Figure 5: Vienna Secession style |
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Figure 6: Pre-Raphaelite style |
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Figure 6: Ukiyo-e style |
That's a selection from a longer list of possibilities. Some work better than others when humans are in the picture. I particularly liked the Pre-Raphaelite style.
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Figure 7 |
Gemini recommends the following strategy for obtaining the best results in getting Nano Bananas to emulate an artistic style using Art Nouveau as an example:
Strategy: Instead of just describing "Art Nouveau," the user should upload a high-resolution image of a Mucha poster or a Klimt painting as a style reference.
Elsewhere Gemini advises the following:
One of the biggest challenges in style transfer is losing the identity of the subject. Nano Bananas features "Character Consistency".
Application: When applying a heavy style like Tim Burton or Cubism, the user should explicitly prompt to maintain facial landmarks.
Prompt Structure: "A portrait of [User] in the style of Tim Burton. Maintain subject likeness. Pale skin, large eyes, gothic background."
Result: The AI will adapt the proportions and texture (large eyes, sketch lines) to the style while keeping the fundamental biometric data recognizable.
Using Charles Keeping as the artist, I uploaded an illustration of his. See Figure 8.
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Figure 8 |
I then prompted Nano Bananas to apply this style to the photograph and Figure 9 shows the quite satisfying result.
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Figure 9 |
