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+- [[https://jellyfin.ronnyabraham.com/web/index.html#/details?id=dbb54a81295f2664feea26c5580456d3&serverId=99488804638e465693eed17924c57b60][video]]
+
+* Review
+** Summary
+This lesson introduces Nano Banana as an AI image generator for creating and editing product art, especially for print-on-demand designs.
+
+** Core Idea
+Nano Banana is useful because it follows natural-language instructions well and can revise images while keeping the overall design consistent.
+
+** Practical Value
+- Generate cartoon or realistic images
+- Edit images through plain-language prompts
+- Use reference images for style/concept direction
+- Create cross-niche product ideas
+- Access through Gemini or Google AI Studio
+- Compare subscription pricing vs pay-per-use API pricing
+
+** Access Options
+
+*** Gemini
+- easier interface
+- useful for beginners
+- may include free trial
+- requires paid/pro access for best version
+
+*** Google AI Studio
+- pay per image
+- better for occasional use
+- requires API billing setup
+- more technical
+- allows control over settings like aspect ratio and resolution
+
+** Workflow
+1. Generate base image
+2. Ask for edits
+3. Download image
+4. Upscale if needed
+5. Remove background in Canva/other editor
+6. Turn into POD-ready file
+
+** Important Limitation
+Nano Banana may not create true transparent backgrounds.
+
+Best workaround:
+- generate on plain white or black background
+- remove background later in Canva or another editor
+
+** Cost Logic
+If using Google AI Studio:
+- each image costs a small amount
+- edits also cost money
+- repeated revisions increase cost
+
+If generating many images monthly:
+- subscription may be cheaper
+
+If generating only a few:
+- pay-per-use may be cheaper
+
+** Cost Comparison Checklist [0/4]
+- [ ] Estimate number of images needed per month
+- [ ] Include revisions/edits in estimate
+- [ ] Compare total API cost to subscription cost
+- [ ] Choose cheaper option for current workload
+
+** Image Generation Checklist [0/7]
+- [ ] Choose target product/design purpose
+- [ ] Write clear prompt
+- [ ] Specify style (cartoon, doodle, realistic, etc.)
+- [ ] Specify background color
+- [ ] Review output
+- [ ] Request edits if needed
+- [ ] Download final image
+
+** POD Preparation Checklist [0/6]
+- [ ] Upscale image if needed
+- [ ] Remove background
+- [ ] Add/edit text in Canva or design app
+- [ ] Export as PNG
+- [ ] Use transparent background
+- [ ] Test on product mockup
+
+** Warnings
+- Free versions may include watermarks
+- Pricing and access may change
+- API use can add up with many revisions
+- Do not assume generated backgrounds are actually transparent
+- Always check image quality before printing
+- Do not copy reference designs too closely
+
+** Key Insight
+The tool is strongest when used interactively.
+
+Prompt → review → edit → refine
+
+This is better than expecting one perfect image from one prompt.
+
+** My Take
+Nano Banana is useful as an art-generation and editing tool, but it is not the full production workflow.
+
+You still need:
+- human product judgment
+- background cleanup
+- upscaling
+- layout work
+- POD export preparation
+
+** Bottom Line
+Use Nano Banana to quickly create and revise design assets.
+
+Then use Canva or another editor to turn those assets into clean, print-ready product files.
+
+
+* Transcript
+#+begin_example
+00:00
+Hey, everyone. So this here is,
+
+00:03
+1 of my favorite
+
+00:04
+AI image generators right now, Nano Banana. I have been
+
+00:07
+increasingly using Nano Banana more and more. I still use
+
+00:11
+multiple
+
+00:12
+AI image generators.
+
+00:14
+Currently, I've got Nanobanana that I'm using. I'm using Midjourney.
+
+00:18
+I'm using ChatGPT's
+
+00:19
+image generator.
+
+00:20
+And should any more image generators come out that are
+
+00:24
+excellent, I'm sure I will pick them up as well.
+
+00:26
+But Nanobanana
+
+00:27
+is currently, right now, probably the 1 I go to
+
+00:30
+the most.
+
+00:31
+So this is Google's AI image generator,
+
+00:35
+and, there are actually 2 versions of it. So there
+
+00:38
+is a pro version and there is a free version.
+
+00:42
+The pro version is what I use. I use the
+
+00:45
+pro version for 2 reasons. Number 1, the free version
+
+00:48
+comes with,
+
+00:49
+a watermark,
+
+00:50
+whereas any images made on the pro version currently do
+
+00:53
+not have a watermark.
+
+00:54
+And secondly, the images are just better. And 1 of
+
+00:58
+the things about Nitto Banana that is so nice is
+
+01:00
+that it's not just about the fact that it creates
+
+01:04
+great images.
+
+01:05
+It's about the fact that
+
+01:07
+you can,
+
+01:08
+have a lot more control
+
+01:10
+over what you create with it because it's got such
+
+01:14
+great natural language learning capabilities,
+
+01:17
+built into it,
+
+01:18
+and also because of the fact that it's very, very
+
+01:22
+good at following instructions.
+
+01:24
+That's been the really cool thing about Deno Banana is
+
+01:27
+that it's brought in a new era of AI image
+
+01:30
+generators that are very, very good at staying consistent,
+
+01:33
+both with following your instructions and also
+
+01:37
+with consistency
+
+01:38
+just across images in general. And the other AI image
+
+01:41
+generators have copied of Nuna Banana's,
+
+01:45
+you know, revolution in that regard.
+
+01:47
+But it was the first to truly get it right.
+
+01:50
+And plus, it's also extremely good with text as well.
+
+01:53
+Now
+
+01:54
+there are 2 ways that you can access Nano Banana.
+
+01:57
+The first is through Gemini,
+
+01:59
+which is Google's own version of ChatGPT.
+
+02:03
+And the second version is through the Google AI Studio.
+
+02:07
+Now,
+
+02:08
+these are quite different ways to, to access it.
+
+02:12
+So for reference,
+
+02:14
+if you access it through Gemini,
+
+02:17
+Google's version of Chat GPT,
+
+02:19
+you will need to have the pro version of Gemini.
+
+02:23
+And currently, right now, you can get access to a,
+
+02:27
+a subscription for the pro version
+
+02:29
+for free for 1 month. So normally it costs 20
+
+02:32
+US dollars a month for a subscription,
+
+02:34
+and that gets you access to all of their pro
+
+02:37
+features.
+
+02:38
+And to be fair, these are fantastic features as well
+
+02:41
+in their own right.
+
+02:43
+But
+
+02:43
+in addition to all this, you get access to the
+
+02:45
+pro version of Nano Banana.
+
+02:48
+And so for many people, at least to start with,
+
+02:51
+this is probably what they will do. They will go
+
+02:54
+ahead, get Nano Banana
+
+02:56
+through or they'll access, they'll get a free Gemini Pro
+
+02:59
+subscription. And then when you're in here, you can come
+
+03:01
+and you can click create an image. So you can
+
+03:03
+do it that way, or you can come here to
+
+03:05
+tools, and you can click to create an image.
+
+03:09
+So So this is 1 way to access Standard Banana.
+
+03:11
+The second way to access it, of course, is through
+
+03:13
+the Google AI Studio.
+
+03:16
+Now the thing about the Google AI Studio is that
+
+03:18
+it's not free. You actually need to connect a credit
+
+03:21
+card through setting up an API key, which is very
+
+03:23
+bit very easy to do. You can just follow the
+
+03:26
+on screen instructions to do it.
+
+03:29
+You just need to basically add your credit card in
+
+03:31
+through the form of an API
+
+03:33
+key, and then you pay
+
+03:35
+per image that you generate.
+
+03:38
+Now as I'll show you, each image that you generate
+
+03:42
+generally costs a few cents.
+
+03:44
+So when you think about it,
+
+03:47
+initially, you might start out using Nano Banana through Gemini
+
+03:51
+because the fact that you can access it for free.
+
+03:53
+And if you have good reason to want to stay
+
+03:55
+subscribed to the pro version, I'm I'm subscribed to the
+
+03:58
+ultra version. So I love Gemini
+
+04:01
+as a tool. I think it's very great, very helpful.
+
+04:04
+It's been a huge
+
+04:06
+improvement for my life even. I use Gemini to help
+
+04:09
+me,
+
+04:10
+do market research recently when buying some property,
+
+04:13
+and I used the ultra,
+
+04:17
+AI version of Deep Research. So
+
+04:20
+I love Gemini,
+
+04:22
+but you might not find that there's a reason to
+
+04:24
+stay subscribed to Gemini
+
+04:26
+Pro,
+
+04:28
+outside of, Netter Banana. If so, then it will make
+
+04:32
+more sense for you in the future to switch
+
+04:35
+to the Google AI Studio because then you can just
+
+04:38
+generate each image that you need and pay a few
+
+04:40
+cents.
+
+04:41
+So in this tutorial, I'm gonna take you through both.
+
+04:46
+We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna start out on
+
+04:49
+the Gemini app, and then I'll show you how to
+
+04:53
+use
+
+04:54
+the Google AI Studio.
+
+04:56
+Alright. Let's start out then with Gemini.
+
+04:59
+So, of course, as I mentioned before, within Gemini, if
+
+05:02
+you want to access Nanobanana,
+
+05:04
+you come to the tools and you select create an
+
+05:06
+image, or if the tools are available down there for
+
+05:08
+you, you can select it too.
+
+05:11
+Now there are 2 main ways that you'll generally create
+
+05:14
+an image with Nano Banana.
+
+05:16
+The first is just simply asking it to create an
+
+05:19
+image for you, and it is really, really great at
+
+05:24
+doing that. So let's try creating something now.
+
+05:27
+Let's create
+
+05:30
+a cartoon
+
+05:32
+doodle
+
+05:33
+of
+
+05:34
+a husky,
+
+05:37
+white background.
+
+05:42
+And I'm filming this all in real time, by the
+
+05:44
+way, so that you can see generally how long it
+
+05:47
+takes to work. Because when you try to create
+
+05:50
+designs at scale, to upload, to create products at scale,
+
+05:54
+it's actually quite useful to know how many seconds a
+
+05:57
+tool takes, particularly when you start stacking tools on top
+
+06:00
+of each other. If 1 tool takes 1 minute and
+
+06:03
+then another tool, you're using another, like, 5 other tools
+
+06:05
+and they take a minute, then you can calculate how
+
+06:08
+many designs effectively you can create per hour.
+
+06:11
+Alright. So here is the little doodle that it made
+
+06:14
+for us.
+
+06:15
+So we could now go in and ask for some
+
+06:17
+changes. So we could say,
+
+06:20
+can you color the husky?
+
+06:28
+In the past,
+
+06:30
+it was so much harder to make these sorts of
+
+06:32
+changes.
+
+06:34
+But now it's so easy
+
+06:36
+that we can just be using a chatbot like this.
+
+06:40
+So
+
+06:41
+I definitely personally currently prefer to be generating images in
+
+06:44
+this way,
+
+06:45
+just having a natural learning.
+
+06:48
+And and yep.
+
+06:50
+Sorry. Natural,
+
+06:51
+language learning experience with it.
+
+06:54
+Here I see. Now it's colored it for us just
+
+06:56
+like that. Let's say I wanted to,
+
+06:59
+remove the collar.
+
+07:02
+Can you remove the collar?
+
+07:13
+And so now it's gonna go ahead, and it's gonna
+
+07:15
+remove that collar for us.
+
+07:17
+And it's going to fill in the difference with the
+
+07:20
+husky
+
+07:22
+and just show, the husky's fur.
+
+07:37
+Look at that.
+
+07:38
+We no longer have a collar on our cute little
+
+07:41
+husky.
+
+07:43
+So it's actually super easy to come in here and
+
+07:45
+edit these images.
+
+07:47
+You just ask for specifically what you want.
+
+07:50
+So if you want to download an image, you can
+
+07:53
+also just come and click to download the image in
+
+07:55
+full size. And the pro version does have high resolution
+
+07:59
+images,
+
+08:01
+but I would still recommend that you
+
+08:04
+increase the resolution,
+
+08:06
+and try making as high as possible. So if you're
+
+08:08
+going ahead and editing these images within Canva like I
+
+08:11
+do, then I would still use the upscaler tool to
+
+08:14
+upscale images.
+
+08:18
+So that is 1 way to be able to create
+
+08:21
+images, just simply working with it and getting it to
+
+08:23
+create what you want.
+
+08:25
+And just for reference, it's also extremely good at creating
+
+08:29
+realistic
+
+08:30
+pictures as well, not just cartoons.
+
+08:33
+So
+
+08:35
+create a photo of
+
+08:47
+and something that I think is quite remarkable when you
+
+08:49
+compare it to earlier versions of AI art generators,
+
+08:53
+such as Chechi Petit's earlier AI image generator, is that
+
+08:56
+back in the day, if you had asked it to
+
+08:59
+make a change to the husky and you'd asked it
+
+09:01
+to remove the collar,
+
+09:02
+it would have redrawn the entire image, and the image
+
+09:05
+would not have looked identical.
+
+09:08
+So
+
+09:10
+here we go.
+
+09:12
+As you can see, it looks scarily realistic.
+
+09:15
+So you can indeed make realistic images too with Nano
+
+09:19
+Banana, not just cartoon style images.
+
+09:23
+So let's try a different way, though. So another way
+
+09:26
+that you can create images is you can use reference
+
+09:29
+images,
+
+09:30
+and reference images can be extremely
+
+09:32
+helpful.
+
+09:34
+So
+
+09:35
+here is
+
+09:36
+a picture of a t shirt which,
+
+09:39
+has done well over the Christmas period,
+
+09:42
+this
+
+09:43
+year. 6 7, if you don't know what it is,
+
+09:45
+is an Internet meme, and it's an Internet meme that's
+
+09:48
+popular with gen alpha
+
+09:50
+and in to a lesser extent, I think, gen z.
+
+09:53
+So depending upon which, generation bracket you're in, you may
+
+09:57
+have not heard about it.
+
+09:59
+Either way, it's an Internet meme, and,
+
+10:02
+the meme involves both 6 7, and there's also, like,
+
+10:06
+a little hand gesture. It relates to a viral video.
+
+10:10
+So somebody came and took this meme
+
+10:13
+and made it Christmas themed, and it was popular. You
+
+10:16
+know? It's gotten,
+
+10:18
+it's gotten over 4000 views. It was over 4000 sales
+
+10:22
+in the past month.
+
+10:23
+And on Amazon,
+
+10:26
+they will have, sales brackets. So it'll say 4000 plus
+
+10:30
+sales in the past month or 5000 plus sales in
+
+10:32
+the past month. So we know that this has sold
+
+10:34
+anywhere from 4000 sales to 4999
+
+10:38
+sales. Although even if it had only sold 4000 sales,
+
+10:41
+that's a lot of t shirts.
+
+10:44
+So something that you can do is you can find
+
+10:46
+popular designs online
+
+10:48
+and then you can repurpose them.
+
+10:52
+And
+
+10:55
+Nanobanana is fantastic at this. So
+
+11:00
+I took some examples of t shirts. There was another
+
+11:03
+more generic 6 7 t shirt that had done well,
+
+11:06
+which the Christmas 1 was based off of. So taking
+
+11:09
+some screenshots here of these shirts.
+
+11:14
+I like
+
+11:16
+this concept
+
+11:18
+for a t shirt,
+
+11:20
+but I would like it to be
+
+11:24
+Halloween
+
+11:25
+themed.
+
+11:26
+Can you make for me
+
+11:29
+a Halloween
+
+11:30
+themed
+
+11:32
+6 7 t shirt with the meme hand
+
+11:37
+gesture?
+
+11:38
+Oops.
+
+11:40
+Here we go.
+
+11:46
+And so now we're targeting an entirely
+
+11:48
+different
+
+11:50
+customer base
+
+11:51
+because we're targeting people who are interested in Halloween themed
+
+11:56
+shirts. So this is a good example of a cross
+
+11:59
+formula idea
+
+12:00
+where we take a popular T shirt format,
+
+12:04
+and then we cross it together with an entirely different
+
+12:06
+niche to create something very new that's targeting a different
+
+12:09
+customer base so that we're not,
+
+12:13
+just trying to take sales away by copying the preexisting
+
+12:16
+design, but we're reaching an entirely different customer base.
+
+12:21
+So here we go. Be like,
+
+12:25
+remove the
+
+12:27
+text and remove the glow effect.
+
+12:38
+You can also,
+
+12:41
+when it when it starts to think, you can go
+
+12:43
+ahead and you can see it's thinking as well, which
+
+12:45
+is quite interesting. If you're a little bit nerdy like
+
+12:48
+me and you like to see how it's, how it
+
+12:51
+works.
+
+12:53
+You can just click this,
+
+12:56
+and then you'll be able to see,
+
+12:58
+what's actually going on under the surface
+
+13:02
+as it's working.
+
+13:04
+And here it is.
+
+13:06
+And look, it did an excellent job,
+
+13:09
+of, following my instructions here. Of course, it's on this
+
+13:13
+T shirt, which we don't want.
+
+13:15
+I just want the design
+
+13:18
+on a
+
+13:19
+plain
+
+13:20
+black
+
+13:22
+background,
+
+13:23
+not a T shirt.
+
+13:31
+And so now it'll come in,
+
+13:34
+and it will remove the T shirt portion of this
+
+13:37
+design,
+
+13:39
+and it will just draw it straight onto a plain
+
+13:42
+background
+
+13:45
+for us. And the reason why I pick a black
+
+13:48
+background
+
+13:49
+is just because it will be easy to remove it
+
+13:52
+with a background remover in, say, Canva.
+
+13:55
+Currently, within Nano Banana, you cannot
+
+13:58
+create images on a transparent background. That might change in
+
+14:01
+the future depending upon when you were watching this. They
+
+14:03
+may have added it. Right now, you cannot put images
+
+14:06
+onto a transparent background.
+
+14:08
+It'll show the transparent. It'll make it look transparent, but
+
+14:11
+it won't actually be transparent, but it will mimic the
+
+14:13
+the little squares that you see.
+
+14:16
+It's not actually transparent. So currently,
+
+14:18
+the easiest way to remove a background
+
+14:21
+of an image you make with it is to put
+
+14:23
+it onto a plain background
+
+14:25
+and to then use a background remover to get rid
+
+14:28
+of it.
+
+14:32
+And here we go. It has done this for us.
+
+14:35
+So now we could download this and then pop it
+
+14:38
+into,
+
+14:40
+a program like Canva
+
+14:42
+and then edit it and turn it into a t
+
+14:45
+shirt design that is suitable for us.
+
+14:47
+So
+
+14:48
+this is 1 way to access,
+
+14:51
+Nanobanana
+
+14:52
+through Gemini. However, as I said,
+
+14:55
+while it will be the cheapest way initially to start
+
+14:57
+with most likely because of the fact that they're currently
+
+14:59
+giving away a free 1 month trial,
+
+15:03
+depending upon whether
+
+15:05
+you have access to that trial, depending on it, like,
+
+15:07
+it might be that by the time you're watching this,
+
+15:09
+the trial is no longer being offered.
+
+15:12
+Or it may be that you've already had your 1
+
+15:14
+month trial, and,
+
+15:17
+you would now have to pay 20 dollars a month
+
+15:19
+for it. You may not need to keep your access
+
+15:21
+to Gemini Pro.
+
+15:23
+So in which case, it could be better for you
+
+15:25
+to switch to the Google AI Studio,
+
+15:27
+and I will show you how to use that right
+
+15:29
+now. Alright. Here is the Google AI Studio. So as
+
+15:33
+I said, this is a different way that you can
+
+15:35
+access Nano Banana.
+
+15:37
+So to access the Google AI Studio,
+
+15:40
+the URL is literally just a I studio dot Google
+
+15:43
+dot com. And, of course, you can always Google it,
+
+15:47
+and you'll be able to access it there. The Google
+
+15:50
+AI Studio
+
+15:51
+is mostly aimed at professionals
+
+15:54
+because the interesting thing is that with Gemini, if you're
+
+15:58
+accessing Google's AI tools through Gemini, you have limited access,
+
+16:01
+particularly
+
+16:02
+for things like, say,
+
+16:04
+the Yo 3, which is their,
+
+16:07
+video generator. With those, you have daily limits. And there
+
+16:10
+are also daily limits, for how much you can use
+
+16:13
+Nano Banana as well, but you're unlikely to hit them.
+
+16:16
+So
+
+16:18
+with the Google AI Studio, you can have unlimited access
+
+16:21
+to their tools
+
+16:22
+because instead of having 1 subscription giving you access to
+
+16:26
+a bunch of,
+
+16:29
+your,
+
+16:30
+data that's a sort of preset preset limits. With the
+
+16:33
+Google AI Studio, it's unlimited and you pay per usage.
+
+16:37
+So the Gemini
+
+16:39
+subscription is great value if you utilize all of your
+
+16:42
+limits.
+
+16:43
+But
+
+16:44
+if you are only using a small amount, you actually
+
+16:47
+can save a lot of money by just generating your
+
+16:50
+images through the Google AI studio.
+
+16:52
+So it's entirely up to you, but this is a
+
+16:55
+great hack to know about because it might save you
+
+16:57
+money.
+
+16:59
+So
+
+16:59
+inside of here, you've got 2 different ways currently to
+
+17:03
+access Nano Banana.
+
+17:04
+If it's here available on the what's new, you can
+
+17:06
+click that, but it's probably not always gonna be new.
+
+17:09
+So if you come to the playground,
+
+17:11
+then you can come up here and you can choose,
+
+17:14
+which tool you want to use. We want to use
+
+17:17
+Nano Banana Pro.
+
+17:19
+Now using Nano Banana
+
+17:21
+Pro is very, very similar to how it is within
+
+17:24
+Gemini.
+
+17:24
+1 change is that
+
+17:26
+over on the side here, you can make some direct
+
+17:29
+you you can set some settings up immediately. So for
+
+17:32
+example, you can change your aspect ratio,
+
+17:34
+and you can change your resolution.
+
+17:36
+Now changing a resolution
+
+17:38
+will increase how much the toke how many tokens get
+
+17:41
+used. Tokens are how they calculate how much how expensive
+
+17:45
+an image is and how much it's gonna cost you.
+
+17:48
+The more tokens your, image uses,
+
+17:51
+the more expensive it's gonna be. So you probably wanna
+
+17:53
+keep this at 1 k resolution because we can increase
+
+17:57
+the resolution
+
+17:58
+within Canva. And chances are you're probably going to want
+
+18:01
+to be you to using Canva to turn your image
+
+18:04
+into a print ready file anyway
+
+18:07
+or some other graphic design app. And,
+
+18:10
+Canva has an AI upscaler included within it.
+
+18:14
+So
+
+18:15
+I would keep it at the lowest resolution to save
+
+18:18
+money.
+
+18:19
+And then we come here for the prompt, and it's
+
+18:21
+it's the same thing.
+
+18:22
+Let's just see. We want a
+
+18:25
+draw
+
+18:26
+a doodle
+
+18:27
+of a
+
+18:29
+husky on a white
+
+18:31
+background.
+
+18:42
+So you can see here it says that I've got
+
+18:44
+a paid API key.
+
+18:46
+So you can come and click here to add in
+
+18:48
+an API key. You can follow the instructions,
+
+18:51
+but love to show you how to do it. Unfortunately,
+
+18:54
+there's a lot of secure credit card data there, which
+
+18:57
+is too hard for me to hide. So I can't
+
+19:00
+show you how to set up an API key, but
+
+19:02
+it is quite similar.
+
+19:04
+And here it is.
+
+19:05
+I'm actually not super fond with this.
+
+19:09
+But,
+
+19:10
+either way, it would be very easy to go back
+
+19:13
+to
+
+19:14
+and get it to change it. Of course, every time
+
+19:16
+you ask it to change it within the Google AI
+
+19:18
+studio, it uses more tokens. You can see we've so
+
+19:21
+far used 529
+
+19:22
+tokens, and I'll
+
+19:24
+calculate later on how much this has cost me. It's
+
+19:27
+only cost me. Like, we're talking cents here. This is
+
+19:30
+not dollars. This is cents.
+
+19:34
+Remove the icons
+
+19:37
+around that husky
+
+19:39
+and make the
+
+19:42
+well, I guess it's got the eyes because of the
+
+19:43
+fact that some of the huskies have, different colored eyes.
+
+19:47
+So that's not so bad. But the
+
+19:49
+but I'll still go and make the eyes
+
+19:54
+the same.
+
+20:02
+We'll just get it to do that to see if
+
+20:03
+we can
+
+20:05
+see what it would be like if it did it
+
+20:08
+as an experiment.
+
+20:16
+And you can also come and
+
+20:18
+view the,
+
+20:19
+thinking as well, which is always very interesting.
+
+20:25
+Look. It did it.
+
+20:26
+So it made the eyes the same type of, same
+
+20:30
+sort of, like, same eye style,
+
+20:32
+and it got rid of the
+
+20:34
+got it got rid of the,
+
+20:36
+the icons around it. So you can see, though, that
+
+20:39
+it's definitely increased our usage. We've basically doubled the tokens
+
+20:42
+that we've used before. Again,
+
+20:44
+we will calculate that later.
+
+20:46
+So here we are inside of Gemini API pricing, and
+
+20:49
+we can see here that currently,
+
+20:51
+it is 0.134
+
+20:54
+dollars, so 13.4
+
+20:57
+cents,
+
+20:58
+per image because of the fact that it is 12
+
+21:01
+dollars per 1000000 tokens. And generally speaking, an image works
+
+21:05
+out to be about 1000 tokens. So that means then
+
+21:08
+that you're paying about 13.4
+
+21:10
+US cents
+
+21:11
+per image. Now
+
+21:13
+this is where you need to do the math because
+
+21:15
+you think about it. A Gemini Pro subscription
+
+21:19
+costs 20 dollars.
+
+21:22
+So if you want it to,
+
+21:25
+see if it's cheaper or not for you to be
+
+21:28
+using the API studio,
+
+21:30
+then what you wanna do is you wanna divide this
+
+21:34
+by
+
+21:36
+the cost of each image,
+
+21:38
+and it comes out to 149
+
+21:41
+images.
+
+21:42
+Now it's actually quite easy to generate more than 149
+
+21:45
+images. It is very easy to generate
+
+21:48
+150
+
+21:48
+plus images, but it depends upon how much time you
+
+21:51
+have and how quickly you are growing and scaling
+
+21:54
+your your store and your business.
+
+21:56
+So if you're creating a lot of images,
+
+21:59
+then you,
+
+22:01
+will
+
+22:02
+want to probably switch to the Gemini Pro account because
+
+22:06
+then you'd have access to a lot more images,
+
+22:09
+especially if you want to then access any of the
+
+22:11
+other benefits of Gemini Pro because you get free storage
+
+22:13
+with Gemini Pro, free cloud storage, and you get access
+
+22:17
+to VEO 3, their, video generator.
+
+22:20
+So if you and also, yeah, but you you get
+
+22:23
+greater access to their chatbot as well, and,
+
+22:27
+you can access,
+
+22:29
+that at higher rates. So
+
+22:32
+if that makes sense for you, then you can totally
+
+22:34
+do that. But if you think that currently right now,
+
+22:36
+you're not able to spend a lot of time on
+
+22:38
+your business and you're only adding a few products a
+
+22:40
+month, then you could end up saving quite a bit
+
+22:43
+of money if you just
+
+22:45
+generate each image individually.
+
+22:48
+But, yes, that is how to use,
+
+22:50
+Nanobanana.
+
+22:52
+I hope that, you find it as helpful,
+
+22:56
+as I have.
+#+end_example
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+- [[https://jellyfin.ronnyabraham.com/web/index.html#/details?id=659c99d60d3aa3470428018b68edb58d&serverId=99488804638e465693eed17924c57b60][video]]
+
+* Review
+
+** Summary
+This lesson shows how to take AI-generated artwork and prepare it for print-on-demand using Canva’s AI tools.
+
+** Core Idea
+AI images are not automatically print-ready.
+
+They usually need:
+- background removal
+- upscaling
+- cleanup
+- transparent PNG export
+- Printify testing
+
+** Main Workflow
+1. Create Canva project near product print-area size
+2. Upload AI image
+3. Set background color to likely shirt/product color
+4. Remove background
+5. Upscale image
+6. Clean unwanted artifacts
+7. Add optional text/elements
+8. Export as transparent PNG
+9. Upload to Printify and verify
+
+** Key Canva Tools
+- Background remover
+- Image upscaler
+- Pixel eraser
+- Magic eraser
+- Elements
+- PNG export
+- Transparent background
+- Size slider
+
+** Important Warning
+Do not upload raw AI art directly to Printify.
+
+Problems can include:
+- white background box
+- low resolution
+- washed-out print
+- pixelation
+- messy edges
+
+** AI Image Prep Checklist [0/5]
+- [ ] Line art is clear
+- [ ] Background is simple
+- [ ] Main subject is readable
+- [ ] Colors are strong enough
+- [ ] Design fits intended shirt/product color
+
+** Canva Optimization Checklist [0/7]
+- [ ] Upload AI image
+- [ ] Set canvas background to target product color
+- [ ] Remove background
+- [ ] Upscale image
+- [ ] Clean unwanted artifacts
+- [ ] Add text/elements if needed
+- [ ] Review final design
+
+** Export Checklist [0/5]
+- [ ] PNG selected
+- [ ] Size increased as much as practical
+- [ ] Transparent background enabled
+- [ ] File downloaded
+- [ ] File tested in Printify
+
+** Bottom Line
+AI art generation is only step one.
+
+The sellable product file must be:
+- clean
+- transparent
+- high-resolution
+- tested on the actual product
+
+
+* Transcript
+#+begin_example
+00:00
+Welcome back to another tutorial video. In this video, I'm
+
+00:03
+going to show you how I use Canva to take
+
+00:06
+AI images that I generate
+
+00:08
+and then turn them into print ready files and optimize
+
+00:12
+them for print on demand products.
+
+00:15
+And this is actually a very important thing to do
+
+00:18
+because let me show you something. So this here is
+
+00:21
+a,
+
+00:23
+a popular t shirt, which
+
+00:25
+I suspect I don't know, but I suspect it probably
+
+00:28
+had some help with AI images to create it.
+
+00:32
+Well, if you don't optimize your images to be print
+
+00:36
+ready, then you can encounter some problems. So take a
+
+00:39
+look at this here.
+
+00:41
+When it's actually printed onto a shirt, you can see
+
+00:44
+that the design looks washed out
+
+00:47
+and it doesn't look anywhere near as vibrant. And the
+
+00:50
+most likely answer for why that is
+
+00:54
+is probably because it was not optimized for print,
+
+00:58
+and it's probably in low resolution.
+
+01:01
+And so because of that, when it's actually printed,
+
+01:05
+it doesn't look very good. It also could be a
+
+01:07
+combination with the printer itself that was used to make
+
+01:11
+the shirt.
+
+01:12
+But quite likely,
+
+01:13
+my guess is that the image was not well optimized.
+
+01:17
+So it's important to do that so that you don't
+
+01:19
+get it looking like this.
+
+01:21
+And it's pretty easy to do. So let's go ahead
+
+01:23
+and let's create a new Canva project.
+
+01:26
+So there's multiple ways, of course, that you can approach
+
+01:28
+this. The most common way is to simply just create
+
+01:31
+a,
+
+01:33
+a design,
+
+01:34
+that is the
+
+01:36
+same or similar size to the print area. So I'm
+
+01:38
+just gonna do that here.
+
+01:44
+That way you can make sure that,
+
+01:47
+you've got your placement as you want.
+
+01:49
+So I created this design here
+
+01:53
+with,
+
+01:54
+nano banana.
+
+01:56
+And,
+
+01:57
+because I've been,
+
+01:58
+I've been doing a series of tutorial videos recently, of
+
+02:00
+course, on the 6 7 meme. If you don't know
+
+02:02
+again what this is, it's just simply 6 7
+
+02:05
+is a popular meme with gen alpha and generation z,
+
+02:10
+and so it's selling well onto t shirts right now.
+
+02:14
+And,
+
+02:15
+different cross niche designs where you take it and you
+
+02:18
+apply it to different types of,
+
+02:21
+niches like how this 1 here applied it to Christmas.
+
+02:24
+Well,
+
+02:26
+my 1, of course, supplies it to,
+
+02:29
+to princesses, and it's using donuts which are popular with,
+
+02:33
+with, a younger female crowd as well right now. So
+
+02:36
+yeah.
+
+02:37
+That's what this is. This is based on that. So
+
+02:39
+I created this design here, and here's how I would
+
+02:43
+optimize it for print.
+
+02:44
+So
+
+02:45
+first of all,
+
+02:47
+if we actually come and we're gonna change the background
+
+02:49
+color of this,
+
+02:52
+to black because this would be most likely printed. I'd
+
+02:55
+I'd be optimizing this for a black t shirt print.
+
+02:57
+Well, as you can see, currently right now,
+
+02:59
+it has this white box around it.
+
+03:02
+We need to remove this white this white background box.
+
+03:06
+And right now,
+
+03:08
+AI image generators,
+
+03:10
+can't create pictures on a transparent background. That might change
+
+03:13
+in the future, but until that changes,
+
+03:15
+you need to remove the background.
+
+03:17
+If you don't remove the background, here's what's gonna happen.
+
+03:19
+It's going to look like this. So I just uploaded
+
+03:21
+the straight as is onto
+
+03:23
+a Bella Canvas 2001 t shirt here on Printify. And,
+
+03:26
+yep,
+
+03:28
+it will look like this.
+
+03:29
+You don't want that, obviously,
+
+03:31
+so we need to remove the background.
+
+03:35
+So,
+
+03:37
+we I'm gonna come here and change the spec to
+
+03:40
+be
+
+03:42
+white.
+
+03:44
+Is she I'll keep it as black for now. She
+
+03:46
+will we'll we'll pick gray. Oh, sorry.
+
+03:49
+We'll pick gray for this so that we can see
+
+03:51
+how it looks. So,
+
+03:53
+it's pretty simple. You just come. You can either click
+
+03:55
+this button here if it's available, or if you can't
+
+03:57
+see it, come to
+
+03:59
+edit and then click,
+
+04:01
+background remover in the Matrix Studio.
+
+04:08
+And now you can see it has
+
+04:10
+removed the background, so which is why you can now
+
+04:12
+see,
+
+04:13
+the background gray color.
+
+04:15
+And the background remover tool works really well,
+
+04:19
+particularly around,
+
+04:21
+lines which are clear and defined. So initially
+
+04:24
+so when I made this with Nano Banana,
+
+04:26
+the lines were quite thin, poorly defined. So I got
+
+04:29
+it to redraw it with
+
+04:31
+clear,
+
+04:35
+basic
+
+04:38
+line art. And so because of that, you can see
+
+04:40
+it's done an excellent job at removing the background and
+
+04:42
+keeping it looking really nice. So if you're having trouble
+
+04:45
+with the background remover, getting it to remove all of
+
+04:47
+the background, go back to your AI image generator,
+
+04:50
+such as Nanobanana
+
+04:51
+and ask it to simplify the line art and to
+
+04:54
+make it bold and clear like this, and you should
+
+04:57
+get a very good result.
+
+04:59
+Now there is just 1 problem, though, currently.
+
+05:03
+It's, like you know, we've we've removed the background, which
+
+05:05
+is great, but the image itself is in, somewhat low
+
+05:09
+resolution.
+
+05:10
+And so right now, this would not be suitable to
+
+05:13
+print. If we tried to print it, it would come
+
+05:14
+out looking washed out and pixelated.
+
+05:17
+So we can fix it by coming to edit.
+
+05:21
+And then coming down to the apps
+
+05:23
+and then coming
+
+05:25
+and finding the image upscaler tool here. Gonna click this.
+
+05:30
+And generally speaking, it takes a bit longer, but upscaling
+
+05:33
+to the highest resolution that you can,
+
+05:36
+is a good idea. So we're gonna come and click
+
+05:38
+upscale. And as I said, this is gonna take a
+
+05:41
+little while, but it's definitely worth it. Not only is
+
+05:45
+it gonna upscale the image into a higher resolution so
+
+05:48
+that when it prints, it'll print
+
+05:50
+nice and crisp and clear.
+
+05:52
+But it's also
+
+05:54
+going
+
+05:55
+to,
+
+05:56
+just improves details a little bit because some of these
+
+05:58
+details are a little bit fuzzy.
+
+06:00
+So it's going to improve the detailing and it's going
+
+06:03
+to
+
+06:04
+just make the design look nicer overall in addition to
+
+06:07
+upscaling it into higher resolution.
+
+06:09
+So it's gonna do multiple things for us,
+
+06:14
+which is really, really handy.
+
+06:18
+But as I said, it can definitely
+
+06:20
+take it takes a few moments, so
+
+06:24
+we just we just need to be a little bit
+
+06:26
+patient.
+
+06:29
+These are the parts when I'm creating a tutorial for
+
+06:31
+a whole I often skip over.
+
+06:34
+But for this tutorial, I wanted to include it so
+
+06:36
+you could see how long it actually takes so that
+
+06:38
+you could,
+
+06:39
+figure out how long a design will realistically take you
+
+06:41
+to create once you start stacking tools on top of
+
+06:44
+each other. So I just finished it for us, so
+
+06:46
+we're gonna come and click replace.
+
+06:50
+And now it's switching out our lower resolution design
+
+06:54
+with our new maximum,
+
+06:57
+resolution design, which also takes a few moments.
+
+07:06
+Loading. Loading.
+
+07:17
+There you go. It has successfully changed it. And so
+
+07:19
+I don't know if you're gonna be able to tell.
+
+07:21
+Hopefully, you should be able to tell,
+
+07:23
+but these colors are much nicer now that it has
+
+07:26
+been switched out with the higher resolution design.
+
+07:29
+So it's
+
+07:30
+looking really, really nice.
+
+07:33
+Now
+
+07:34
+there is,
+
+07:36
+something else I want to show you. So let's say
+
+07:38
+that you have this design, but there are parts of
+
+07:40
+it that you don't like.
+
+07:42
+Well, we can fix that.
+
+07:44
+And here's how we're gonna do it. So,
+
+07:47
+click the image and then come, and you got 2
+
+07:50
+different types of erasers. So you have the pixel eraser,
+
+07:53
+which literally lets you just rub out any part of
+
+07:56
+the image that you don't like. Of course, I don't
+
+07:59
+want to do that for this 1, so I'm going
+
+08:01
+to redo that. So that's 1 way that you can
+
+08:04
+get rid of anything that you don't like. Another way
+
+08:06
+is you can use the magic eraser tool.
+
+08:09
+And let me show you why this is so powerful.
+
+08:12
+So let's say
+
+08:13
+I like my
+
+08:14
+6 stone up here,
+
+08:16
+but I don't like some of these colors.
+
+08:19
+So I can come in and I can get rid
+
+08:21
+of them.
+
+08:22
+And I can get rid of them by simply
+
+08:25
+brushing over them.
+
+08:28
+Brush over this 1.
+
+08:30
+Get rid of this 1. Let's get rid of this
+
+08:32
+1.
+
+08:33
+Let's get rid of this here. Get rid of this
+
+08:36
+here.
+
+08:37
+This here.
+
+08:42
+This here.
+
+08:45
+So pick any parts of it that you don't like,
+
+08:47
+that you wanna get rid of, and then just come
+
+08:49
+and click erase. Now what Canva's AI is gonna do
+
+08:53
+is it's going to fill in the gaps. So you
+
+08:55
+can see that it covered over it. It figured out,
+
+08:59
+what color should be there in its place if you
+
+09:01
+were to get rid of it, and it filled it
+
+09:02
+in for me. So just got rid of them. So
+
+09:05
+you can go ahead and clean up any images that
+
+09:07
+you like. And, of course, you can also go ahead
+
+09:09
+and you can add anything to that you want to
+
+09:11
+it. For example, you might decide that you actually just
+
+09:13
+want some cool sparkles. So, yeah, you can come here
+
+09:17
+and search for some sparkles
+
+09:20
+and you could add them into your design.
+
+09:23
+Like, you know, it could be fun to pop some
+
+09:25
+sparkles
+
+09:27
+over here by the
+
+09:32
+by the wand. Because if we came in, if
+
+09:34
+we
+
+09:35
+turned the e. See, now you got these cute little
+
+09:38
+sparkles nearby it. So, yeah, you could go ahead and
+
+09:41
+you could add any,
+
+09:43
+fun elements like images to it, or you could go
+
+09:46
+ahead and add any text to it that you want,
+
+09:48
+whatever you need to your design.
+
+09:52
+Either way,
+
+09:53
+once you have it looking the way that you want,
+
+09:56
+we can save it.
+
+09:59
+And saving it is very easy.
+
+10:01
+So now come here. I'm just gonna give it a
+
+10:03
+name, like, 6, 7,
+
+10:07
+kids,
+
+10:09
+donut,
+
+10:10
+princess,
+
+10:11
+t shirts.
+
+10:14
+And then we're gonna come and click share.
+
+10:17
+Then we're gonna come and click download.
+
+10:19
+And you wanna make sure that you've got PNG selected.
+
+10:22
+And then we're gonna come and we're going to increase
+
+10:25
+this
+
+10:25
+so you could increase it by, about, times 3 is
+
+10:29
+nice. If this image is a little bit too big
+
+10:32
+when you try to upload it into Printify, you can
+
+10:35
+always decrease it. But try to get it as high
+
+10:37
+as you can
+
+10:39
+and then come and click the transparent background.
+
+10:42
+That way, we won't have this problem here where it
+
+10:46
+it prints with the color because we don't want this.
+
+10:48
+We don't want the colored background.
+
+10:50
+We want it to print with a transparent background.
+
+10:53
+And then you just come and click download,
+
+10:57
+and now you have an image that is suitable for
+
+11:00
+printing.
+
+11:02
+Alright. So what I did was I downloaded it from
+
+11:05
+Canva, and then I've come ahead and I have reuploaded
+
+11:08
+that file that we created into Printify to show you
+
+11:10
+here. And so here it is. You can see that
+
+11:13
+it is in high resolution, which is fantastic, and you
+
+11:16
+can see the background has been removed there. So even
+
+11:19
+if we change the color of the t shirt, there
+
+11:21
+is no colored background because we made it transparent.
+
+11:24
+And so now
+
+11:26
+this is what it looks like when it is printed
+
+11:29
+onto the shirt,
+
+11:31
+which looks great.
+
+11:33
+So
+
+11:34
+I will, of course, include
+
+11:36
+my affiliate link to Canva in the description of this
+
+11:39
+video. Using it is entirely optional, but if you do
+
+11:43
+choose to use it, I very much appreciate it. So
+
+11:45
+thank you.
+#+end_example