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Create with AI: Images & Video

Make and edit images and videos with Google’s AI — Nano Banana, Veo and more — no design skills needed.

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6 lessons · ~66 min

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Welcome to Gemini's creative studio 🎨

Imagine a tiny art studio that lives inside your phone — one that can paint a poster for your kirana shop, fix the lighting in a wedding photo, or sketch a logo for a college fest. That is Gemini's creative side. Inside the free Gemini app you can make brand-new images from words and edit photos you already have. It feels less like software and more like a quick, patient designer who never gets tired. In this course we will learn to use it well, the free-first way, with Indian everyday examples.

Step one: a free Google account 🔑

Everything here starts with one free Google account — the same kind you use for Gmail or YouTube. If you have one, you already have your key. If not, go to gemini.google.com and sign in (or create an account); no credit card is needed for the free tier. Once you are in, open the tools menu and pick Create images — the little banana icon. That single button is the door to the whole studio. The free plan is generous enough that most learners never need to pay a rupee.

Open Geminifree appSign inGoogle accountCreate imagesbanana icon

Free vs paid: where the line sits 💰

The free Gemini app gives you image generation and editing with a daily quota. The paid Google AI plans raise your limits: Google AI Plus is about $7.99/month and Google AI Pro about $19.99/month, with Google AI Ultra from about $99.99/month (always check the live page, prices change). One concrete free-vs-paid difference for images: without a paid plan you download at 1K (1024px); with a paid Google AI plan you get 2K downloads, per Google's image help page. Start free — only consider paying once you hit the free limits often.

💡 Before ever upgrading to a paid plan, watch your free usage for a week. Most learners never cross the free daily quota. 🐝

Video is a different gate 🚪

Images are the free playground; video is the locked room. In the Gemini app, video generation needs a paid Google AI plan (Plus, Pro, or Ultra) and you must be 18 or older, per Google's make-videos help page. There is no free video inside the app. We will cover the free ways to try video later (Google Flow gives 50 daily credits). For now, just remember the simple rule: in the Gemini app, images can be free, but video is paid-only and 18+.

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