Christmas Card
Ready to post in December
Coordinated festive knitwear, a lit tree behind you gone soft as bokeh, a garlanded mantelpiece and warm low tungsten light. The card you meant to organise a photographer for.
7 free to start. Your photo stays on your phone until you sign in.
What the Christmas Card look does to a photo
The Christmas Card look restages your photograph as the card you meant to organise a photographer for. Everyone ends up in coordinated festive knitwear, there's a decorated tree behind you with the lights thrown far out of focus, a garlanded mantelpiece, and the whole thing is lit with the warm low tungsten that makes a room look like December.
It doesn't matter what the original photo was. A kitchen selfie, five people squashed on a sofa, a baby on a rug: the setting changes underneath everyone and the people stay put. Faces, expressions, glasses, head coverings and the number of people in frame all carry over exactly.
It runs in about twenty seconds and costs 7 tokens. Your first 7 photos are free, nothing renews, and tokens don't expire.
Every age, every face
Real results from this look. Nothing here is retouched afterwards.
Will they still look like themselves?
Yes. Here is exactly what this look moves and what it holds.
What changes
- Clothing becomes coordinated festive knitwear in red, green and cream.
- A decorated tree arrives behind you, its lights gone soft as bokeh.
- The mantelpiece gets garland, stockings and candles.
- Light warms to low tungsten, the way a sitting room looks at night in December.
- Whatever room you were in becomes a room dressed for Christmas.
What stays the same
- Faces, entirely, including the ones that were laughing at something off camera.
- Glasses, hats and head coverings, which stay on and stay yours.
- Everyone who was in the photo, and nobody who wasn't.
- Apparent age, so a grandparent still reads as a grandparent.
- Who is sitting with whom, and who is holding the baby.
How it works
- Step 1Choose a photoOne picture from your camera roll. Any phone photo will do.
- Step 2We make the Christmas Card versionAbout twenty seconds. Everyone stays recognisably themselves.
- Step 3Save and share itDownload it, send it to the family, or run the same photo through another look.
Which photos work best for Christmas Card
This look is not fussy, but these are the pictures it rewards.
- The family photo you already have and were never going to reshoot.
- Groups, because a card wants everybody in it.
- Photos taken indoors, which need the least work to belong in the scene.
- Anyone who leaves the card until the second week of December.
- Sending as a card, or printing a stack of them.
How to get a better result
Four things that change the output more than anything else.
- Faces toward the camera matters more than anything else in the frame.
- Half length or wider gives the knitwear somewhere to sit.
- A photo where nobody is cropped at the edge restages more cleanly.
- Indoor photos land more naturally than bright outdoor ones.
Your first 7 are free
After that each photo costs 7 tokens. There is no subscription and nothing renews. Buy a handful of tokens when you want more, and they never expire.
Questions
- Will our faces change?
- No. Faces are held exactly as they are. Clothing, setting and light are what change.
- Can I put a message on it?
- Yes. Type a line like “Merry Christmas from the Schopps” before you generate and it's written onto the picture. You can change the wording afterwards and it starts again from the photo without words on it.
- Does it work with a group?
- Yes, and groups are what it's best at. The number of people never changes, whether that's one of you or six.
- What about a baby?
- Babies come through well and stay alone in frame if they were alone in the photo. Nobody is added.
- Can I print it?
- Yes. Download the full-size file and print it wherever you like.
- How long does it take?
- About twenty seconds.
Other looks
The same photo works in any of these. Closest to Christmas Card first.
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