r/GeminiAI

I keep seeing posts comparing gemini to chatgpt on text and coding and I feel like everyone is sleeping on the thing gemini actually does better than anything else which is understanding images and visual content.

I do video and design work and about a month ago I started using gemini for something specific, I'll take a screenshot of a video frame or a design comp or a visual reference I found online and ask gemini to analyze the composition and color palette and lighting and mood and tell me how to recreate or riff on that visual style.

and it's genuinely incredible at this, like I showed it a frame from a wes anderson film and asked it to break down exactly what makes it feel like a wes anderson shot and it identified the specific color relationships and the symmetry and the depth of field choices and the prop placement in a way that was actually useful to me as someone trying to achieve a similar feel, chatgpt gave me generic film school stuff when I tried the same thing and claude just described what was in the image without the compositional analysis.

where this has become really practical for me is in my actual production workflow, I'll generate visual concepts using midjourney, run style references through magic hour and runway to test different looks in motion, and then when I need to understand why a certain reference image or video frame works I bring it to gemini because it can articulate the visual principles in a way I can actually apply to my own work.

it's become this weird thing where gemini isn't the tool I use to create anything but it's the tool that makes me better at using every other tool because it helps me see what I'm looking at more precisely.

the other thing it does that I haven't been able to replicate anywhere else is comparing two images and telling me specifically what's different about them compositionally not just content wise, like I'll show it two versions of the same shot with different color grading and it'll tell me exactly how the warm tones in version A create intimacy while the cooler tones in version B create distance and why that's happening technically.

has anyone else found gemini's visual analysis to be way ahead of the other models or am I just not prompting chatgpt and claude correctly for this kind of thing

why in every conversation it name drops some random information about me just to be a smartass, i am aware you know about me a lot but i dont want you to tell me my location when i asked a coding question 😭

I am having this issue since like the past week where Gemini will just totally ignore the context of the conversation when making a new reply.

Generally like this:

- Me: What is the weather in Australia, Sydney right now?

- It: It's X degrees, very sunny outside.

- Me: What about in Japan?

- It: Japan is a country that .... (some explanation about Japan ignoring the previous context of weather.)

It's making me like Gemini less and less, because I need to be stupidly redundant when asking questions even for things that should be clear in context. It often does something similar for comparisons. Just now we had a full conversation about a project I'm working on, then I dropped a document about a cool concept and asked "is something like this useful for me" (which admittedly is vague in abstract, but in a conversation where we we're comparing things and methodologies should be obvious enough.) It instead gave me, a breakdown of how it would be for all my projects (which is better than nothing, but felt "less" intelligent because of the lack of specificity.)

Then I specify, "I meant for Project X", and instead of making the breakdown of the applicability of the idea specifically to Project X, it just goes back to the previous problem we were solving ignoring completely the new idea.

I had to re-ask "bro I meant how does the paper I just shared relates to project X" for it to finally get the reply I was expecting.

I would guess context rot, but the conversations I am having this issue with are fairly short.

True, Gemini do be spitting facts.

Are there any AI image generators that aren't completely useless when it comes to scale?

Getting Gemini to tell Nano Bana to create an image of a man holding a tank above his head only to get a tank that's about half the size of a Honda Odyssey is frustrating. Spending half an hour trying to explain scale to it in terms of math (e.g. this guy is 6ft tall, the tank is 9ft tall etc) only bought more frustration.

Large context windows are a trap—models get "lost in the middle." Break your tasks into modules.

The Strategy:

"Phase 1: Outline only. Phase 2: Expand Section A. Phase 3: Critique Section A. [Wait for my 'Proceed' after each phase]."

This keeps the attention mechanism laser-focused on one block at a time. I use the Prompt Helper Gemini Chrome extension to inject these phase-gates into my workflow.

All of my pinned chats are suddenly gone and I can't find them searching for them either as if they've been deleted?

I love the Gemini web interface, but I hate that I have to stay on the page to use it.

I’m looking for a way to send questions to my Gemini tab from other places—like if I’m in a Google Doc, can I just click a button and have it send the text to my Gemini chat and bring back the answer?

Basically, I want a robot that uses the Gemini website for me. I don’t want to use the developer API because it feels like a different world and I like the way the website looks and saves my chats.

Is there any Chrome extension or simple software that lets you "automate" the actual website? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just tired of all the copy-pasting!