How to Nano Banana Your Existing Headshots

NOTE: UPDATED VERSION OF HOW TO USE A.I. TO BRAINSTORM A NEW LOOK:

https://mrs.waddlesworth.org/2024/01/how-to-use-ai-to-brainstorm-new-look.html

IMAGE GENERATION TOOLS ARE FREE & WORKING BETTER THAN EVER

Generally speaking it is likely not advisable to upload your own photos into the A.I. systems. Those photos will be used to train new systems and possibly to regurgitate your face if you later become famous. Instead, prompt a version of yourself and use the synthetic person to explore looks.

PART I - “PEDANTIC” HEADSHOT GENERATION

Q: Photorealistic headshot with a slight corporate or pedantic quality of a Caucasian female with genetic ancestry from Poland and Ukraine. The hair is dark brown, neatly cut below the shoulder. The facial expression is earnest with the quality of a dental hygenist or similar occupation that calls for neatness and cleanliness.

A: Here's a photorealistic headshot for you:

Q: Have the background be a white cyc wall and the left hair falling in front of the shoulder.

A: Got it! Here's the updated image with a white cyc wall background and the left hair in front of the shoulder:

Q: Would you make the hair longer, below the collar.

A: Certainly! Here's the image with longer hair, falling below the collar:

PART II - “LOOK” GENERATION

We’re going to use the features of Google Nano Banana A.I. image editing to “try out” different looks and hairstyles without altering the face depicted in the image. You can do this with your own selfies and existing headshots. YMMV.

In this case I’m using the synthetic headshot above as the basis for the stylistic exploration.

Q: Change the hair and personal style of the 22-year old woman (fictional) depicted in this image to match the following visual character description: NEO-GOTH, inspired by Wednesday Addams and friends with a twist of Beetlejuice. Single side-shave, the longer hair should have festive, highly saturated purple streaks from scalp to length. Goth "racoon eyes" with purple irridescent highlights. Facial expression should be faux-scowl with a sense of humour. Photorealistic reference to give human stylist.

Q (Nano Banana): Change the hair and personal style of the 22-year old woman (fictional) depicted in this image to match the following visual character description: socially inept and loner wallflower, goth adjacent. Hair is all flat to the head, hanging straight, all one length with a cute bobby pin neatly parting the bangs to one side similar to Gwynneth Paltrow's character in The Royal Tenenbaums. The aesthetic should be decidedly Wes Anderson cute, artsy and detailed. You can see it didn’t quite track, so I switched to ChatGPT (next image):

Q: (ChatGPT) Change the hair and personal style of the 22-year old woman (fictional) depicted in this image to match the following visual character description: socially inept and loner wallflower, goth adjacent. Hair is all flat to the head, hanging straight, all one length with a cute bobby pin neatly parting the bangs to one side similar to Gwynneth Paltrow's character in The Royal Tenenbaums. The aesthetic should be decidedly Wes Anderson cute, artsy and detailed.

Q: Give the fictional 22-year old woman depicted in this image a shag haircut and a stylistic vibe inspired by Juliette Lewis' character in "Natural Born Killers". Sadistic, punk adjacent, coloring way outside society mores.

Q: Give this fictional 22-year old woman a stylistic makeover with a 1970s Karen Carpenter bowl cut and period appropriate goody two-shoes socially inept vibe.

Q: Give the woman depicted in the photo a hairstyle from the image named hairstyle.jpg. Change the facial expression and wardrobe to be 1960s swinging london MOD.