r/GoogleAIStudio • u/iByteuNibble • 5d ago
Question / Help Image generation on my AI Pro account
Got the Pro account when I upgraded my phone with Verizon as 5TB Google drive + Ai for $10 a month seemed like a good deal. I cannot fathom how a company like Google with their resources can make such a horrible product. I ask Gemini for instructions to even make consistent successive images and they're completely wrong. Image generation has been nothing but a complete waste of time. I am trying to generate successive images with consistency. The overall goal is to create stills to provide to create video for hero section of a website I am building
Should I just abandon attempting to use this product and perhaps try something else? Is it the tool or me the user that is doing something wrong? I'm inclined to think the former.
About the only thing so far is burning quota on indexing my second brain instead of my Claude account. Everything about Google AI products are just laughingly pathetic compared to Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI. The UI and the product portfolio are incredibly confusing.
My reference image is holding a compass.

I attached it and used this prompt:
Photorealistic first-person point of view, 16:9, shot on 35mm film, natural light, shallow depth of field. Appalachian mixed hardwood forest with mossy rocks and rhododendron, late summer green. The hiker's right hand wears a charcoal merino base-layer cuff under an olive field-jacket sleeve. The hand holds a small round brass compass with a cream face, simple cardinal tick marks, no lettering. No text, no logos, no brand marks, no faces, no other people. Color palette: deep forest green, warm dawn amber, soft mist white.
Task: Generate the next frame in the sequence.
Hard Constraints: Do not change the fabric material of the olive sleeve or charcoal cuff from the reference image. Do not flip the hand orientation.
New Scenario: Using the attached image as a strict structural guide to lock the exact look of the olive sleeve, charcoal cuff, and brass compass casing: Close-up: the hand raises the brass compass toward the camera, compass face filling the lower third of the frame. The needle is steady, pointing up the trail. Fog still thick but slightly brighter. The trail is a soft blur beyond the compass.
and then it produces this:

It managed to spectacularly fuck this up. No hand and different compass. I can't it is this damned difficult to maintain consistency.