Nano Banana 2 Google vs Qwen Image Edit 2509 Alibaba

Nano Banana 2

• + Excellent preservation of the car's model and design features.
• + Highly accurate preservation of the man's facial features and specific hairstyle.
• + Convincing motion blur and lighting integration.

• − The man's scale relative to the car is slightly small, making him look a bit low in the seat.

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Beautiful composition and iconic California coastal scenery.
• + Good sense of speed and motion in the environment.

• − The man's facial features are largely lost to shadow and wind effects.
• − The hair texture is less detailed than in the source image.
• − Slightly less fidelity in the small details of the car's front grille compared to the source.

Nano Banana 2

• + Successfully integrated the character, clothing, and accessories from Image 2 into the new scene.
• + Captured the pose and environmental lighting from Image 1 with high accuracy.
• + Maintained natural-looking skin textures and realistic fabric draping on the scarf.

• − The fingers on the raised hand appear slightly elongated and distorted.
• − The standing foot has an extra toe/anatomical blending issue with the red stool.

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Preserved the lighting and layout of the original scene perfectly.

• − Completely failed to incorporate the character reference from Image 2.
• − Only applied a minor color filter/saturation adjustment to the source image 1.
• − Failed to change the person's gender, clothing, or facial features as requested.

Nano Banana 2

• + Successfully keeps the primary subject's head, hair, and vitiligo patterns mostly unchanged
• + Accurately recreates the textures of the coat and the specific pattern of the scarf
• + Maintains high resolution and realistic lighting consistency with the original beach scene

• − Hallucinates a second person in the background that was not requested or present
• − The hand and watch rendering on the foreground figure is slightly distorted
• − Does not include the black inner shirt from the reference outfit, leaving the chest exposed

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Successfully applies the full outfit including the under-layer black shirt
• + Positions the clothing to match a leaner body profile effectively
• + Maintains the background beach environment relatively well

• − Significantly alters the person's facial features and head shape, failing the source preservation requirement
• − Lower overall visual quality with heavy smoothing artifacts on face and clothing
• − Muddies the vitiligo patterns on the face, losing the distinct look of the original person

Nano Banana 2

• + Excellent source preservation of the face, glasses, and background
• + Extremely realistic hair texture and density
• + Perfectly natural-looking hairline and color match with beard

• − The hair volume is relatively conservative compared to Model B

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Successfully added a very 'full' and 'thick' head of hair as requested
• + Maintains original image elements like the jacket and background well

• − Hair looks like a wig rather than growing naturally from the scalp
• − The hair texture is overly stylized and wavy, appearing less realistic than the source textures
• − Distorted the facial features slightly, particularly making the forehead and glasses look slightly compressed

Nano Banana 2

• + Excellent adherence to all prompt elements including news anchor persona, multiple dogs, and hockey gear.
• + Strong text rendering with clever, relevant puns like 'W-K9 NEWS'.
• + Successfully captures the subject's likeness while applying a classic caricature style.

• − The 'paper-held-by-hand' presentation is a bit meta and wasn't specifically requested.
• − The hockey stick is being held in a somewhat awkward way by the hair/hand.

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Cleverly integrates the news desk directly onto a hockey rink.
• + Preserves the 'selfie' composition from the source image successfully.
• + Good caricature exaggeration of facial features.

• − The text in the speech bubble and on the screens is nonsensical/gibberish.
• − The dog is very small and lacks the 'love for dogs' emphasis requested compared to the hockey elements.
• − Introduced a secondary male character not mentioned in the prompt.

Nano Banana 2

• + Perfectly captures the Studio Ghibli watercolor aesthetic with hand-painted textures.
• + Excellently preserves the poses and the iconic 'distracted boyfriend' composition.
• + Enhances the background with Ghibli-esque floral details and charming architecture.

• − The woman in the foreground is slightly more blurry than the source, though it fits the depth of field.

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Good preservation of the source image's layout and character expressions.
• + Uses a soft, nostalgic color palette as requested.

• − Texture looks more like a digital screen tone or halftone dot pattern than hand-painted watercolor.
• − The lighting is somewhat flat compared to the requested dreamy Ghibli style.
• − The character in the foreground's face looks a bit generic and loses some of the source's likeness.

Nano Banana 2

• + Successfully added energetic wind-blown hair and leaves that look natural to the scene.
• + Improved expression by changing the smile to a more joyous laugh that fits the mood.
• + Maintains high visual coherence with the dog's fur also reacting to the motion.

• − The facial features changed significantly from the source image.
• − Some small artifacts around the flying leaves.

Qwen Image Edit 2509

• + Preserved the subject's original facial features much better than Model A.
• + Successfully applied the hair motion and leaf additions requested.

• − The hair rendering looks somewhat artificial and 'stringy' compared to the source.
• − The added leaves look like flat clip-art stickers rather than integrated 3D objects.