In Episode 12 (September 12, 2025), Sam showed how he and his 11-year-old daughter made every product photo for their new store using Nano Banana in Google AI Studio. They 3D print little hoodie charms, photograph them, and let AI put them on hoodies and models. Each image took minutes, and he'd been doing it for about a week to get the site ready.
Every semester Sam and his daughter build a small business together. He gave three reasons at 11:01: it's fun and exposes her to tools early, it builds an entrepreneurial streak, and all proceeds go to an orphanage they support. This time the product is 3D-printed charms that decorate a hoodie, sold for a couple of dollars each, with launch planned about three weeks out as fall arrived. They needed lifestyle photos without a photo shoot.
The episode didn't say what the store itself is built on.
So, basically, I'm just I print out the the little charms, take a picture, throw it into Google AI Studio, give it a quick prompt, add these charms to a yellow hoodie.
— Sam Nadler, Episode 12
Sam called the images extremely high quality. The dolphin charm became a pink hoodie on a girl in jeans and white Converse. On air, the live example came back with the charms, the model, the jeans and black Converse.
Every single time it's come out perfect, then I prompt it again.
— Sam Nadler, Episode 12
He said he very rarely had to re-prompt. Most of the time the only extra step was removing a background.
One thing we'd keep, not change: in the banner image, some charms came out far too big. Sam liked it, because oversized charms make it more obvious what the store sells. The step that still takes skill is the 3D file itself. A week later, in Episode 13, Sam said customizing complex models is beyond him and he'd like AI to help there too.
Earlier, Jordan tried chained photo edits in our AI image editing chatbot, built on FLUX in Episode 10. For how Nano Banana compares, see ChatGPT vs Nano Banana.
Sam takes a phone photo of the 3D-printed charm, uploads it to Nano Banana in Google AI Studio and prompts 'add these charms to a yellow hoodie', then prompts again to put the hoodie on a model with specific pants and shoes.
Yes. Every lifestyle image on Sam's store started as one photo of a printed charm. He said the results were extremely high quality and took minutes.
Rarely. Sam said it came out right nearly every time over the week he used it; the most he usually needed was to remove a background.
For this use it was. Sam ran the whole workflow as a chat with Nano Banana inside Google AI Studio, with no design tool in between.
