Choose a style
AI Portrait Styles: Compare Looks for Your Photo
Three different directions for one portrait: painted softness, graphic shapes or a new illustrated world.
Start with watercolor for a light painted portrait, retro poster for bold shapes and a limited palette, or cyberpunk anime when you want the setting and mood to change too.
One reference. What changes?
View the reference image
Watercolor ↗
Choose watercolor when paper texture, soft transitions and an airy palette matter more than photographic surface detail.
Inspect the eyes, mouth and hairline. Softness is useful in the background; the features you care about still need clear edges.
Retro Poster ↗
Choose retro poster when you want a graphic silhouette and strong color relationships. Preview it at the size you plan to use.
Check whether the face and hair still read at a small crop. Large color blocks can remove subtle facial shading.
Cyberpunk Anime ↗
Choose cyberpunk anime when a stylized character and a more dramatic world are part of the brief.
Check how much the face, clothing and setting have changed. In this example, the background is part of the transformation.
| What to compare | Watercolor | Retro Poster | Cyberpunk Anime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edges | Soft washes, with firmer facial details | Broad shapes and clear boundaries | Fine drawn contours and cel shading |
| Color | Light greens and warm paper tones | Limited green and ochre palette | Dark blues, cyan and violet light |
| Background | The lake and mountains remain recognizable | The landscape becomes graphic bands | A neon city changes the setting |
Try it with your own image
- Choose a photo with a clearly visible face and a crop close to your intended result. Decide whether its original background matters.
- Pick one of the looks below. In the photo studio, upload your reference and choose the corresponding style. In another image tool, combine your reference with the style prompt.
- Compare the face, clothing and background with the original. Keep the photo and other settings fixed while trying a second style; repeat promising choices before committing.
These examples show possible visual directions, not guaranteed likeness preservation. For an avatar, check a small square crop; for a larger portrait, inspect facial details at full size. The reference person is fictional AI-created material.
Copy a style prompt
These are the public style prompts from the atlas. Combine one with your own subject or reference image; results vary between models.
Watercolor
Shape the subject through layers of transparent watercolor pigment, allowing wet colors to bleed and blend naturally into soft edges, tide marks, pale deposits, and occasional dry-brush marks. Let paper fibers show through thin washes and preserve paper white in bright areas. Keep dark colors transparent and brushwork relaxed while key structures remain accurate. Build light and shade through water and layered color for a luminous, airy result, avoiding opaque impasto and uniform blur.Retro Poster
Use the graphic language of twentieth-century vintage posters, distilling the subject into strong contours, broad color blocks, and clearly divided light and dark regions. Establish a striking hierarchy and visual center through a limited palette of vintage spot colors. Keep tones rich without excessive vividness. Add subtle screen-print grain, paper texture, and uneven ink coverage, letting concise, forceful shapes carry the poster aesthetic.Cyberpunk Anime
Shape the subject with sharp two-dimensional animation linework and clearly separated cel-shaded light and shadow. Keep details precise and contours hard-edged. Create strong warm-cool tension with electric cyan, magenta, and deep blue, adding restrained neon reflections and a faint damp sheen. Introduce a precise mechanical rhythm within the existing structure. Keep shadows legible and the overall effect sharp, futuristic, emotionally intense, and distinctly drawn.