Nano Banana, the viral generative AI image platform built by Google, can now generate photos inside Lightroom. Prompt to Edit is a new, experimental beta tool inside Adobe Lightroom that allows photographers to edit an image using written prompts and generative AI.
Introduced on September 29 as an early public access beta, Adobe says that the new Prompt to Edit is powered by Google’s Nano Banana and uses generative AI.
The Edit to Prompt inside Lightroom doesn’t adjust sliders but uses generative AI to make changes to an existing image. In a demo video, Adobe noted that when using the feature, “the entire photo is regenerated.” The edited images are generated using Nano Banana 2.
Prompt to Edit is located inside Lightroom on desktop devices in a new dedicated space in the sidebar. At the top, Lightroom will suggest some prompts to try, while users can also build or write their own prompts. When clicking on one of the sample prompts, the prompt box autofills with the written prompt, which can also give users a hint at how to write and structure their own prompts.
In demos of the new feature, Adobe showed how the beta tool could be used to remove dust and scratches from an old photo and recolor a black-and-white image, but also how the generative AI could be used for tasks like replacing a sky or adding fog to a scene.
As with creating presets inside Lightroom, Prompt to Edit also allows users to save their prompts for reuse on other images. Generated images are saved in a stack with the original image and can be further refined with Lightroom’s existing tools.
Prompt to Edit does use Adobe’s generative credits, but Adobe did not indicate how many credits the feature uses.
The launch of Prompt to Edit follows Photoshop’s AI Assistant, but the beta Lightroom tool includes some notable differences. Photoshop’s AI Assistant can make traditional edits as well as making generative AI adjustments.
Photoshop’s AI-assisted Editor also uses Adobe Firefly, an AI that’s built on licensed images, while the new Lightroom feature works with Nano Banana 2. Google does not disclose where the training data for Nano Banana comes from, but Nano Banana 2 is capable of using images from a Google Search during image generation.
The Prompt to Edit is an early access tool – which is Adobe’s term for a beta feature that’s still in testing – and is available for the desktop version of Lightroom.
The September 2026 Lightroom update also brings improvements to the Reflection Removal tool, as well as support for newly announced cameras and lenses.
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