I am thrilled to walk you through the wonderful process of creating Gemini AI photo editing for Diwali, the festival of lights. As someone who loves this technology and the creator of Online Eternals, I created a list of 10 distinct prompts you can take advantage of in different circumstances to create beautiful AI-generated images. My name is Akash Saini, and I also run the AkashEternals YouTube channel in which I talk about new topics like this one.
Bringing Portraits to Life AI Photo Editing
AI Photo Editing changes a basic festive photo into art. It will brighten colors, balance lighting on a person’s face, and include natural-looking sparkler glows, conveying the woman’s happiness while showcasing her mustard-yellow dress against the heightened night environment.
Prompt
A woman stands in the heart of a festive night, her presence radiant and full of life (use girl pic from my provided image). She is dressed in a bright mustard-yellow dress, patterned with delicate black motifs resembling playful animals. The dress features a modest, high-rounded neckline and long sleeves, blending elegance with a lively charm. Against the deep, velvety night sky, her vibrant attire glows, making her the natural centerpiece of the scene.
Her hair is neatly tied back in a bun (or ponytail), framing her face gracefully. Large, round hoop earrings catch the flickering light, adding a subtle glimmer to her look. Her expression radiates joy — a wide, genuine smile lights up her face, her eyes crinkled slightly at the corners in pure amusement.
In her right hand, she holds a bright sparkler, angled gently downward, sending a shower of glowing sparks into the air. The brilliant white and golden light of the sparkler reflects off her dress and face, bathing her in a festive, magical glow. Warm shadows dance across her features, enhancing the celebratory energy of the moment.
Her posture leans slightly forward, casual yet filled with excitement, as though she is lost in the happiness of the occasion. The way she gazes at the sparkler captures the innocence of childlike wonder and the spirit of celebration. The background remains softly blurred and dark, ensuring the focus rests entirely on her vibrant presence — a glowing figure of joy, light, and festivity in the night.
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Perfect Festive Moments Using AI Photo Editing
With AI Photo Editing, you can effortlessly combine multiple subjects, manage lighting between sparklers and the background, and give everything a natural cinematic style, making it a perfect option for couples who want Diwali memories that capture warmth and emotion.
Prompt
A festive evening scene illuminated by strings of golden lights glowing like stars in the background (Use my provided persons faces inimage). At the center stands a joyful woman in a bright mustard-yellow dress, patterned with small playful black motifs. The dress has a high neckline and long sleeves, giving her a graceful yet lively presence. Her hair is neatly tied back in a bun, and large round hoop earrings shimmer in the warm glow. Her radiant smile lights up her face, her eyes crinkling with pure happiness.
In her right hand, she holds a bright sparkler, scattering glowing golden sparks that illuminate her dress and face, casting magical highlights and shadows. She leans slightly forward in a relaxed, cheerful stance, fully immersed in the festive energy.
Beside her stands a man dressed in an elegant festive kurta with intricate embroidery. He holds a smartphone slightly raised (Person is holding phone Iphone 17 With their left hand and holding little bit Upper than both of them heads like he is taking selfi of boths), leaning in with a casual yet attentive posture, capturing the moment in a photograph. His presence adds balance and warmth, highlighting a shared celebration.
The background is softly blurred, filled with shimmering bokeh lights, enhancing the festive, dreamlike atmosphere. Together, the woman in the glowing yellow dress and the man with the smartphone create a vibrant and heartfelt scene of joy, festivity, and timeless celebration.
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Diwali Scene Enhanced by AI Photo Editing
AI Photo Editing brings Diwali’s every element to life—from illuminating diyas, to ethnic outfits in vibrant colors. It aids in producing cinematic lighting, providing a soft background and accentuating feelings. This gives every frame of the holiday a magical, believable glow.
Prompt
A festive Diwali celebration scene featuring two young women (from images I’ve provided you) joyfully holding sparklers. Both are dressed in elegant traditional Indian ethnic outfits — vibrant, intricately embroidered dupattas and colorful lehengas or salwar suits. They are standing close together, smiling brightly, surrounded by warm golden fairy lights in the background. The room is beautifully decorated with marigold garlands, diyas (earthen lamps), and traditional Indian decor. The lighting is soft and warm, with a cozy orange and golden glow that highlights their faces and festive outfits. One woman is lighting a sparkler while the other watches with joy. The focus is on their expressions of happiness and celebration. The background is softly blurred with bokeh lights to create a magical, festive ambiance.
Capture the atmosphere of Diwali with glowing diyas, twinkling lights, festive colors like gold, orange, pink, and red, and an overall mood of warmth, togetherness, and joy.
Use cinematic lighting, shallow depth of field, and a realistic Indian indoor setting
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Celebrating Togetherness Via AI Photo Editing
AI Photo Editing enhances cherished holiday moments and captures the warmth, lighting, and skin tones, providing a rich blend of rangoli artwork, illuminated diyas, and smiling faces into a loving, intimate celebration of Diwali.
Prompt
Create a realistic and high-quality festive image of these 2 people celebrating Diwali together. The scene should show both are sitting on the floor, smiling warmly, and decorating a beautiful rangoli made of colorful flower petals and diyas (small clay lamps). The faces should be taken exactly from the images I have provided, maintaining their natural facial features, skin tones, hairstyles, and expressions, but blending them seamlessly into this festive setting.
The woman is wearing a traditional Indian saree in rich colors like orange, pink, or gold, paired with a matching blouse featuring elegant embroidery and jewelry such as bangles and earrings. She is gently placing flower petals on the rangoli, looking down with a soft, joyful smile.
The man is dressed in a bright orange kurta with cream-colored churidar pants, smiling affectionately at the woman while holding a plate of flower petals. His posture is relaxed and natural, showing warmth and connection.
The background setting should be a beautifully decorated Indian home during Diwali, with marigold garlands hanging on walls, glowing diyas, gift boxes, and soft fairy lights creating a cozy, festive glow. The floor is wooden, and the rangoli is surrounded by bright orange marigold flowers forming a circular border.
Lighting should be warm and golden, illuminating their faces softly, giving a cinematic festive glow. Capture small light reflections from diyas and lamps for extra realism. The overall tone should evoke joy, celebration, and love, showing the emotional bond between the couple in a traditional Indian Diwali environment.
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Joyful Festive Portraits with AI Photo Editing
AI Photo Editing can enrich bright Diwali portraits by balancing the light emitted from the sparklers and diyas. It refines color tones, produces bokeh effects, and preserves focus on expressions to make them into radiant memories in each photo.
Prompt
A warm, festive Diwali scene featuring two young Indian women. The woman on the left has the appearance of Image 1, smiling joyfully and looking towards the right, with her head slightly tilted. She is wearing a traditional, brightly colored Indian outfit with intricate embroidery and mirror work, similar in style to the original reference image’s left figure, but with a vibrant orange and red palette. Her hair is styled elegantly, adorned with some traditional Indian hair accessories and a bindi on her forehead. She is holding a sparkler, which emits bright, dancing light and smoke.
The woman on the right has the appearance of Image 2, with a warm, gentle smile, looking forward. She is wearing a festive, yet comfortable, Indian attire in shades of pink and gold, possibly a salwar kameez or a lehenga choli, with subtle embellishments. Her hair is neatly styled, and she also holds a sparkler, the light from which illuminates her face.
The background is rich with warm, glowing Diwali decorations. Softly blurred strings of fairy lights (Diwali lights) in various warm colors (gold, orange, red) are visible, creating a bokeh effect. There are traditional clay oil lamps (diyas) glowing warmly on ledges or tables in the background, casting a soft, flickering light. A beautifully decorated wooden or ornate frame, similar to the right side of the original reference image, is visible, adorned with marigold garlands and more lit diyas. The overall ambiance is joyful, warm, and celebratory, capturing the spirit of Diwali. The lighting is soft and magical, emphasizing the glow from the sparklers and the Diwali decorations. The depth of field is shallow, keeping the focus on the two women and the immediate foreground elements, while the background sparkles with diffused light
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Highlighting Cultural Beauty
With AI Photo Editing, even conventional portraits can come to life—jewelry has greater detail, sari works have the perfect texture, and diya lights sparkle with reflections. Photo editing complements the goal of creating authentic, high-quality profiles that embody a sense of warmth and tradition.
Prompt
A festive evening scene illuminated by strings of golden lights glowing like stars in the background (Use my provided persons faces inimage). At the center stands a joyful woman in a bright mustard-yellow dress, patterned with small playful black motifs. The dress has a high neckline and long sleeves, giving her a graceful yet lively presence. Her hair is neatly tied back in a bun, and large round hoop earrings shimmer in the warm glow. Her radiant smile lights up her face, her eyes crinkling with pure happiness.
In her right hand, she holds a bright sparkler, scattering glowing golden sparks that illuminate her dress and face, casting magical highlights and shadows. She leans slightly forward in a relaxed, cheerful stance, fully immersed in the festive energy.
Beside her stands a man dressed in an elegant festive kurta with intricate embroidery. He holds a smartphone slightly raised (Person is holding phone Iphone 17 With their left hand and holding little bit Upper than both of them heads like he is taking selfi of boths), leaning in with a casual yet attentive posture, capturing the moment in a photograph. His presence adds balance and warmth, highlighting a shared celebration.
The background is softly blurred, filled with shimmering bokeh lights, enhancing the festive, dreamlike atmosphere. Together, the woman in the glowing yellow dress and the man with the smartphone create a vibrant and heartfelt scene of joy, festivity, and timeless celebration.
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Spiritual Glow Perfected
AI Photo Editing enriches the peace and detail during sacred times. It reduces shadow and increases the visibility of diya light to create an image of a woman’s tranquil glow as she prays, while achieving pleasing tonal characteristics and feelings.
Prompt
Make a image of this girl, from the chest up, positioned centrally. She has the facial features and skin tone of the woman in Image 1, with a gentle, slightly downcast gaze and a soft, contemplative smile, as if in prayer or deep thought. She is wearing a traditional Indian sari in a soft, elegant color (e.g., cream, light peach, or gold) with subtle embellishments, and her head is gracefully draped with the pallu of the sari, framing her face. She wears delicate gold jewelry, including a small bindi.
Both of her hands are gently placed around a large, circular decorative platter (like a thali) filled with numerous glowing traditional clay oil lamps (diyas). The diyas are arranged meticulously, creating a beautiful pattern, and their warm, flickering light is the dominant light source, casting a soft, golden glow upwards onto her face and hands, highlighting her features with gentle shadows. One of her hands might be carefully adjusting a diya or offering it forward.
The background is deeply blurred and subtly dark, with very faint, out-of-focus bokeh lights of warm colors (gold, orange) suggesting a festive setting without distracting from the central figure. The overall mood is one of peace, reverence, and soft celebration. The focus is incredibly sharp on her face and the glowing diyas, conveying a sense of profound connection to the tradition.
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Showcasing Unity and Warmth
AI Photo Editing flawlessly balances multiple faces and diya reflections to create colorful, collective festive moments. It beautifully captures joy from groups but keeps the integrity of the lighting’s depth, focus, and cultural authenticity.
Prompt
Using nano banana model generate me an image of this girl gathered closely around a communal tray of lit diyas. The perspective is slightly from above, looking down on the group, emphasizing their hands and the central diya arrangement. Each woman is dressed in elegant, traditional Indian attire; one in a white and red sari with gold jewelry, another in a bright blue or green traditional outfit, and the third in a golden or pink ensemble, all with festive adornments like hair flowers and subtle makeup.
Their faces are illuminated by the collective glow of the many diyas arranged on a round, ornate metal or decorated platter. Their expressions are joyful, smiling, and engaged, looking at the diyas and at each other with shared happiness. Their hands are gently positioned around the platter, some perhaps adjusting a diya or simply basking in the light. The diyas themselves are varied in color and design, adding visual interest to the central arrangement.
The background is dark but hints at a festive, indoor Diwali celebration, with extremely subtle, softly blurred fairy lights or hanging lanterns in the far distance, creating a sense of depth and atmosphere. The dominant light comes from the multitude of diyas, casting warm, intricate light patterns on their faces, clothing, and hands. The image conveys unity, celebration, and the shared beauty of Diwali rituals
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Capturing Modern Festive Joy
AI Photo Editing interweaves tradition with contemporary landscapes using urban light enhancements, facial lighting adjustments, and a festive tonal palette to create electric rooftop Diwali scenes.
Prompt
Create image of this girl in a outdoors on a rooftop or balcony during Diwali evening. She is depicted from the waist up, with a wide, genuine smile, looking down at a small, decorative plate she holds in front of her. On this plate are several glowing traditional clay oil lamps (diyas), their flames brightly illuminating her face from below, creating a beautiful, upward glow. She is dressed in a contemporary yet festive Indian outfit, perhaps a stylish kurta set or a modern sari, in rich jewel tones like teal, magenta, or deep orange, with subtle silver or gold jewelry.
The background is an expansive, blurred cityscape or urban night scene, vibrant with the distant, sparkling lights of Diwali. Numerous strings of colorful fairy lights (Diwali lights) in various hues (red, blue, green, yellow) are visible in the soft bokeh of the background, draped across buildings or balconies, creating a magical, celebratory atmosphere. The overall lighting is a mix of the intimate warmth from her diyas and the broader, colorful glow of the urban Diwali decorations. The image captures the joy and widespread celebration of Diwali in a modern urban context, with the woman’s happiness at the forefront. The depth of field is moderate, allowing the background lights to be seen and appreciated while still keeping the woman and her diyas in sharp focus
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Emotional Storytelling
AI Photo Editing takes a simple diya moment and creates a strong narrative around it, sharpening attention to the hands, balancing bokeh in the background, and enriching warm tones to evoke emotions of peace, gratitude, and festivity.
Prompt
Make me image of this girl celebrating Diwali at night. The main focus is on her cupped hands in the foreground, gently holding a single, glowing traditional clay oil lamp (diya). The diya’s flame is vibrant and bright, casting a warm, soft light on her hands. Her hands are adorned with subtle bangles or a bracelet.
In the blurred background, the woman’s face is visible, softly out of focus, with a warm, joyful smile. Her hair is dark and styled simply. She is wearing a traditional or semi-traditional Indian red outfit like lehnga in a dark color, possibly with subtle embroidery.
The entire background beyond her figure is deeply blurred, showcasing distinct, out-of-focus bokeh lights in vibrant green and possibly other warm colors (like yellow or red), resembling festive fairy lights or Diwali decorations. These bokeh circles create a magical, ethereal atmosphere, emphasizing the festive night. The overall lighting is low-key, with the diya’s flame serving as the primary light source for the foreground, and the bokeh lights providing ambient festive glow in the background. The composition highlights the warmth and intimacy of holding the lamp, contrasted with the festive blur of the background
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Using these prompts, you can stimulate creativity and bring the spirit of Diwali to life through Gemini AI-generated art. Whether you’re searching for ideas to create custom greeting cards, social media posts, or just to enjoy the art, the suggestions below will inspire you to get the most out of AI to celebrate this lovely holiday. You’ll also need to stay tuned for more detailed guides and tutorials for using these prompts to create Diwali art!
