Stylised Group Portrait
Hand it a photograph of several people and it comes back as one stylised group portrait — everybody still themselves, because you name what tells each of them apart. Two fields.
We made two examples, from two different photographs: a family on a bench in soft 3D, and three grown siblings in gouache. One group has a child in it; in the other, two of the three are brothers who already look alike, which is the harder test.
Nobody turns into someone else: the brothers stay easy to tell apart, everyone appears in the order they stood and as close as they were, and the child keeps a child's proportions. It is reliable about who is who, not about flattery, since faces come out prettier than in the photo. The framing field can also be ignored (a slightly high camera and head-to-knee framing came back straight on and waist up), so check both and generate again if needed.
Generated for this library
Input
Who dad on the left, dark brows and a square
jaw · the little one in the middle, blonde
and about three · mum on the right,
sun-streaked hair and a wide smile
Style soft 3D animation with cloth that reads as
cloth, seen slightly from above, everyone
head to knee
Photograph garden-bench.png (1254 x 940)
Returned 1 image · 4:5 · the three of them, stylised
people three in, three out - nobody added and
nobody dropped
apart each one's named thing findable: the dark
brows and square jaw, the blonde three-year-
old, the sun-streaked hair and wide smile
ages the child is drawn as a child - bigger head,
shorter limbs, softer features
arrangement the photograph's - dad left, child between
them, mum right, the same closeness
framing not as asked: the field said slightly from
above and head to knee, and it came back
straight on and waist up
words none, in any scriptYou fill in 2 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1Who is in it, left to right, and what tells each apart
- 2The style, and how the group is framed
Stylised Group Portrait
What this makes
Hand it a photograph of several people and it comes back as one stylised group portrait — everybody still themselves, because you name what tells each of them apart. Two fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Attach the photograph and paste the template in the same message.
- Replace the two FIELDS lines. Go left to right in the order they stand, and give each person one thing — the thing you would say on the phone to describe which one they are.
- Check person by person before shipping, and check them against each other: if two of them could swap names, the faces have converged.
- Check the ages too. A child drawn at adult proportions is the other way this goes wrong.
What you swap
- Who is in it, left to right, and what tells each apart
- dad on the left, dark brows and a square jaw · the little one in the middle, blonde and about three · mum on the right, sun-streaked hair and a wide smile
- The style, and how the group is framed
- soft 3D animation with cloth that reads as cloth, seen slightly from above, everyone head to knee
Before it runs
- A photograph of the group, attached to the message, with every face visible. A face turned away cannot be kept recognisable.
- Permission from the people in it. A picture of a family is a picture of those people whatever style it is drawn in.
- One distinguishing thing per person, in your own words. This is the whole skill: without it the run averages every face in the group toward the same face.
- A group small enough to hold. Three to six people works; a crowd has more faces than any style can keep apart.
When to reach for it
When a snapshot of a group should become something to print or send: a family card, a leaving gift, a team page, a birthday. Templates in this genre ask that everyone stay recognisable and hand back a set of siblings — five faces averaged toward one another until only the hair colour tells them apart.
What changes
- One photograph in, one stylised group portrait out — the same people, the same number, in the same arrangement.
- Each person is anchored by the one thing you say tells them apart, which is what stops the faces converging.
- Ages hold: a child stays a child's proportions, an older face keeps its lines.
- The arrangement is the photograph's — who is beside whom, who is turned toward whom, who is holding whom.
- One picture, one style, no panels and no borders.
Pairs with
- Studio Portrait PhotoHand it any photograph of somebody and it comes back as a proper studio portrait of them — new light, new background, new styling, and a face that is still theirs down to the features you named. Two fields.
- Caricature PortraitHand it a portrait and it comes back as a caricature that is still unmistakably them — because it only exaggerates what the photograph already had most of, in the order you rank it. Two fields.
- Handmade Collectible FigureHand it a photograph of somebody and it comes back as a small handmade collectible figure of them — you name the few features that have to survive, because a toy face has room for about six. Two fields.