Gemini Image Prompts for Marketing: 15 Copy & Paste Prompts That Actually Look Good

Hardly a week goes by without someone on the team dropping a Gemini-made image into Slack that makes the rest of us stop scrolling. Google's latest image model (Gemini 3 Pro Image, better known as Nano Banana Pro... a nickname that started as an internet in-joke and is now the official product name) has quietly become good enough that the difference between a forgettable output and a beautiful one is no longer the model. It's the prompt.

So we've done the tinkering for you. Below are 15 copy and paste prompts for the kinds of images marketing teams actually need: product shots, headshots, ad creative, menus, listings and campaign imagery.

One rule we set ourselves for this post: every image you see below is the unedited output of the exact prompt printed above it. No retouching, no compositing, no quiet swaps. What you see is what the prompt made.

How these prompts are built (steal the structure, not just the prompts)

As a designer, the thing that changed my results wasn't magic words. It was briefing the model the way you'd brief a photographer. Every prompt below follows the same four-part shape:

• The subject. One clear sentence about what we're shooting. This is the swap line: replace our amber serum bottle or coral trainers with your own product and keep everything else.
• The set and the light. Surfaces, props, time of day, where the light comes from. Light direction is the single biggest realism lever you have.
• The framing. Focus, depth of field, angle, and crucially where the empty space goes.
• The rules. A blunt list of what must not appear. "No text, no logos" will save you more re-rolls than anything else you write.

Right, to the library.

Product shots that look like a studio day

The bread and butter. 4 prompts that cover the shots an e-commerce brand pays a studio day for: the hero, the lifestyle scene, the deliberately imperfect one and the flat lay.

1. The studio product hero

The prompt:

A premium studio product photograph of an amber glass serum dropper bottle with a plain matte label.

The bottle stands on a low sandstone plinth against a warm cream backdrop. Soft directional light from the upper left, a gentle shadow falling to the right, one subtle highlight running down the glass. Two small props only: a curved shard of sandstone behind the bottle and a soft out-of-focus leaf shadow on the backdrop.

Sharp focus on the bottle, shallow depth of field everywhere else. Centre the product with generous breathing room on all sides.

No text, no logos, no watermarks, no extra products.

The structure does the work: subject, then set and light, then focus and framing, then a hard "no" list. That last line is the difference between a clean pack shot and a bottle covered in imaginary branding.

2. The lifestyle scene

The prompt:

A warm lifestyle photograph of a matte black bag of coffee beans sitting on a worn oak kitchen counter.

Early morning light streams through a window just out of frame, catching steam rising from a full cafetiere beside the bag. A ceramic mug, a scattering of coffee beans and a linen cloth complete the scene, all slightly out of focus so the bag stays the hero.

Shot at eye level on a 50mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural colour, no oversaturation.

No readable text anywhere except the plain label shape on the bag. No people, no hands.

Naming a lens and "no oversaturation" pulls the model away from the glossy AI look. The steam is the storytelling detail: one sensory element per scene is usually enough.

3. The UGC-style phone photo

The prompt:

A casual, authentic photo of a hand holding an iced berry drink in a clear takeaway cup, taken on a phone in bright outdoor daylight.

Slightly imperfect framing, natural skin tones, real-world background of a British high street with soft crowd blur. The condensation on the cup is doing most of the work.

It should look like a customer took it, not a photographer: no studio lighting, no colour grading, no perfect symmetry.

No visible faces, no readable brand names.

You are prompting for imperfection. "Like a customer took it, not a photographer" is the line that kills the studio sheen, and paid social teams will tell you this style often out-performs the polished stuff.

4. The knolling flat lay

The prompt:

A knolling flat lay of running kit on a pale grey concrete surface, photographed directly from above.

Arrange neatly at right angles with even spacing: one single pair of plain coral running shoes, folded navy shorts, a white technical t-shirt, a running watch, wireless earbuds in their case and a small water bottle.

Soft even daylight, gentle shadows, everything pin sharp.

Balanced composition with clear space at the centre-top where a headline could sit. Exactly one pair of shoes. No text, no logos or brand marks on anything.

"Knolling" is a single word that buys you the whole right-angles-and-even-spacing aesthetic. Listing the exact items stops the model inventing a table full of clutter.

People: models and headshots

People are where image models used to fall over, and where the latest Gemini model has improved the most. 2 prompts here, plus the one line you need when you are editing a real photo of a real person.

5. The e-commerce model shot

The prompt:

An e-commerce fashion photograph of a model wearing a rust-orange wool overshirt, photographed against a plain light-grey seamless studio background.

Relaxed natural pose, one hand in a pocket, weight on the back foot, a gentle genuine expression looking slightly off camera. Even soft key light with subtle fill, true-to-life fabric colour and visible wool texture.

Full torso framing from mid-thigh up, with space above the head.

The garment must look exactly like a real product: no artistic distortion, no dramatic shadows, no props.

For e-commerce the garment is the product, so the rules protect it: true-to-life colour, visible texture, no drama. The pose direction is what stops the dead-eyed catalogue mannequin look.

6. The friendly business headshot

The prompt:

A professional but friendly business headshot of a woman in her thirties with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a plain navy crew-neck jumper.

Shot against a softly blurred, warm neutral office background with a hint of greenery. Soft window light from the left, a gentle catchlight in the eyes, a natural relaxed smile.

Crisp focus on the eyes, shallow depth of field, colours natural and true to skin tone.

Framed from the chest up with headroom. No accessories, no logos, no text.

The catchlight and "focus on the eyes" are what make a portrait feel alive. For real team headshots, edit a real photo instead and open the prompt with "keep the same face and preserve the original identity", which is the line doing the heavy lifting in every viral portrait edit.

Social and ad creative

Creative for feeds, decks and screens. This is where the text rendering earns its keep, and where leaving deliberate empty space turns a nice picture into a usable asset.

7. The colour-blocked social ad

The prompt:

A bold, colour-blocked social media advert background: a bright cobalt blue backdrop split diagonally with a panel of warm coral.

A white wireless earbuds charging case sits at the intersection of the two colours, casting a hard graphic shadow. Confident hard lighting, crisp edges, poster-like simplicity.

Leave the top third of the frame clean and empty for a headline to be added later.

Flat, punchy, art-directed. No text, no logos, no gradients, no clutter.

Asking for empty headline space is the habit that makes outputs usable: your designer drops real, on-brand type over the top instead of fighting whatever the model invents.

8. The banner with real, readable text

The prompt:

A retail sale banner for a summer footwear promotion, designed like a premium billboard.

Background: warm sun-bleached yellow with a soft paper texture. On the right, a single white trainer photographed floating at a jaunty angle with a crisp shadow. On the left, large bold black text reads exactly: "MIDSEASON SALE" and beneath it, in smaller text, "Up to 50% off trainers".

Spell every word exactly as written, in a clean modern grotesque typeface, perfectly kerned.

Balanced margins, nothing cropped, no extra words anywhere.

Text rendering is the headline upgrade in Nano Banana Pro. Quote the copy, say "reads exactly", and describe the typeface like a brief to a designer. Then proofread the output like you would an intern’s first draft.

9. The isometric explainer illustration

The prompt:

A clean isometric 3D illustration of a small e-commerce business as a physical miniature world.

A tiny warehouse with parcels on a conveyor feeds a floating checkout screen, which feeds a little bar chart whose bars are climbing, with miniature people working around each station. Soft matte plastic materials, rounded corners, a restrained palette of blue, green, amber and coral on an off-white background.

Soft studio lighting, gentle shadows, everything crisp and toy-like.

No text, no numbers, no logos on any surface.

Isometric miniatures are the friendliest way to illustrate a service or process, and "soft matte plastic, rounded corners" keeps it premium rather than clip-art. Great for SaaS, logistics and anything hard to photograph.

10. The out-of-home mockup

The prompt:

A photograph of a large digital billboard on the side of a red-brick building on a rainy Manchester street at dusk.

The billboard displays a minimal advert: a bright green background with a single white running shoe and no text. Streetlights and the billboard's glow reflect in the wet pavement, people with umbrellas pass by with slight motion blur, red-brick warehouses line the street.

Cinematic but believable: real-world advertising photography, not fantasy.

The billboard content must stay minimal and text-free.

Perfect for making a campaign feel real in a pitch deck before a penny is spent on media. The wet pavement is doing the cinematography; the "believable, not fantasy" line keeps it out of Blade Runner.

Scenes that sell

Bigger canvases: heroes, menus, listings and seasonal moments. The common thread is composition, telling the model where the empty space goes and which details matter most.

11. The website hero with headline space

The prompt:

A wide website hero image for an independent garden landscaping company.

A beautifully landscaped modern garden in golden evening light: a clean stone patio, soft ornamental grasses catching the sun, a slatted cedar fence and warm festoon lights just switching on. Keep the main detail in the right two-thirds of the frame, leaving the left third as calm, soft-focus space where a headline and button will sit.

Natural and aspirational but achievable: a real garden, not a show garden.

No people, no text, no logos.

Composition as layout: you are designing the negative space for the headline, not just the pretty part. "Aspirational but achievable" is a surprisingly effective tone control for local service businesses.

12. The menu shot

The prompt:

An appetising restaurant photograph of a stacked beef burger with melted cheese and pickles on a toasted brioche bun, served on a small enamel plate.

Dark wooden table, moody side light from a window, a scatter of sea salt and a few chips in soft focus behind. The melted cheese and the toasted seam of the bun are the heroes: make them look irresistible.

Shot at a slight angle just above eye level, shallow depth of field, rich natural colour, nothing plastic-looking.

No text, no menus, no hands.

Telling the model which two details are "the heroes" concentrates the realism where appetite lives. The angle matters too: just above eye level is how food photographers actually shoot a burger.

13. The property listing shot

The prompt:

A bright, airy estate-agency photograph of a modern open-plan kitchen and dining space in a family home.

Natural daylight floods through bifold doors, white walls with warm oak flooring, tidy minimal styling: a bowl of lemons, a vase of eucalyptus, morning light across the island. Verticals perfectly straight, wide-angle but not distorted, true-to-life colour and exposure.

The room should feel spacious, warm and genuinely liveable, like the best photo on the listing.

No people, no pets, no text.

"Verticals perfectly straight" is estate-agency photography in three words; models lean towards dramatic wide angles unless told otherwise. Use for concept boards and development marketing, never to misrepresent a real property.

14. The seasonal campaign shot

The prompt:

A festive product campaign photograph of a gift set of three plain unlabelled candles in coloured glass jars, presented in a kraft box with a red ribbon, shot for a Christmas social campaign.

The box sits on a deep green linen tablecloth surrounded by soft-focus fairy lights, a sprig of pine and two brass baubles. Warm candlelight glow from the left, cosy and premium rather than kitsch.

Sharp focus on the gift set, everything else melting into bokeh. Leave space at the top for a short seasonal message.

No text anywhere, no labels on the candles, no snow, no Santa.

"Premium rather than kitsch" plus a banned-cliche list ("no snow, no Santa") is how you get festive warmth without the office-party aesthetic. Swap the props and this template covers every seasonal moment in your calendar.

15. The abstract editorial hero

The prompt:

An abstract editorial hero image representing the idea of organic search growth, in the style of a premium tech publication.

A smooth, softly glowing three-dimensional sculpture of rising rounded bars sits on a clean pale studio surface, the tallest bar catching a warm green-to-blue light. Soft directional studio lighting from the upper left, shallow depth of field, generous negative space.

Calm, optimistic, expensive-looking.

No text, no numbers, no logos, no UI elements: only smooth physical forms.

The trick is turning an idea into a physical object the model can light and photograph. This is, honestly, the recipe behind most of the hero images on this very blog. Swap "organic search growth" for whatever your article is about.

5 habits that make every prompt above work harder

• Match the aspect ratio to the destination. We generated these at their real sizes: 1:1 and 4:5 for feeds, 3:4 for portraits, 16:9 for banners, 21:9 for website heroes. Composing in the right frame beats cropping later.
• Give the model your brand colours as hex codes. "A bright blue background" is a lottery. "Background #1a73e8" isn't. It's how we keep our own imagery on-palette.
• Change one thing at a time. If an output is close, re-run it with a single line changed. Rewriting the whole prompt each time is how you end up with 40 near-misses and no keeper.
• Editing a real photo? Protect the person. Start with "keep the same face and preserve the original identity" before describing the change. It's the line behind every good portrait edit.
• Be honest about what's generated. Concept work, mockups and illustrative imagery are fair game. Passing off a generated kitchen as a real listing photo, or a generated burger as the one you actually serve, is not. Your audience only needs to be misled once.

Want to go deeper?

We're a bit obsessed with this stuff. If today's post was useful, we've also written up the 3x3 product campaign grid prompt we use for mood boards, a head-to-head of ChatGPT images vs Nano Banana Pro, and a slightly nerdier trick for editing real photos with JSON prompts.

And if you'd rather learn this in person, with a room full of people trying prompts together (and someone on hand when your trainer comes out with six toes)... we'd love you to join us at Create with AI: Part 2, our next free in-person session at Clicky HQ. Bring a laptop and something you want to make. Grab a spot here >>

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