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AI Christmas photo maker

AI Christmas photo with Santa

Open a photo of your family, friends or pet, pick one of 12 ready Christmas styles and press one button. Our AI paints the Christmas scene around everyone and is told to keep each face as it is. No prompts to type.

Pick a Christmas style
AI level

Christmas styles need Best or Max: our free AI cannot change the scene while it keeps faces as they are. Every free account gets one free try of Best, shared with AI uncrop.

How to make an AI Christmas photo

Pick a style instead of writing a prompt. Each style tells our AI what scene to paint and, just as important, what to leave alone: the people and pets in your photo.

  1. Open a photoOpen a photo of people, a family or a pet. A sharp photo where faces are well lit and not too small works best.
  2. Pick a styleChoose one of 12 Christmas styles, such as Photo with Santa, Snowy day or By the fireplace. There is nothing to type, though you can add a short note about the scene.
  3. Make itChoose Best or Max and press Make my Christmas photo. Every free account gets one free try of Best; after it, Best and Max run on credits from a pack. A copy of your photo goes to our AI, and the new picture comes back, usually in under a minute.
  4. Check and downloadLook closely at the faces, compare with your photo, and download a JPG, marked in its metadata as made with AI.

The 12 Christmas styles

What we ask our AI

Every style shares one set of rules: keep every person and animal exactly as they are, with the same faces, expressions, hair, age and body shape, in the same places and at the same size; change only the background and the light around them; add no other people (Santa is the one exception, in his own style) and no text, logos or frames. A note you write is passed on as a wish about the scene, inside these rules, never in place of them.

Tips for a better Christmas photo

Faces large and sharp

The bigger and clearer each face is in the photo, the better our AI keeps it. Crop away empty space first, and skip blurry or very dark photos.

Fewer people, better likeness

A couple, a small family or a pet keeps likeness best. In a big group each face is small, so check every one before you share.

Pick a style that fits

A photo taken indoors suits Cozy tree or By the fireplace; an outdoor photo suits Snowy day or Winter cabin. Matching sweaters changes clothes, so it works best on a photo where clothes are clearly visible.

Questions

Is the AI Christmas photo free?

Every free account gets one free try of Best, used only when a picture comes back. It is the same free try as on AI uncrop, so if you used it there, it is used here too. After it, Best and Max open once your account has credits from a pack you bought: 5 credits a run on Best and 8 on Max. There is no free daily level for Christmas styles: our free AI cannot change the scene and keep faces as they are.

Will it keep our faces?

We ask our AI to keep every person and animal exactly as they are: the same faces, expressions, hair, glasses, age and body shape, in the same places, and to change only the scene around them. Image AI still redraws the whole picture, so results vary: a face can come out slightly different, most often when it is small, blurry or turned away. Check the result before you share it. A run that gives a picture uses its credits or your free try, even if you do not like it, so start with a sharp photo.

Why did it turn my photo down?

Our AI's safety filter turns down photos with nudity, violence or other adult content, and it may also turn down ordinary photos, such as some photos with children. When it does, nothing is used: credits come back and the free try stays yours. Another photo or another style may work.

Do I have to write a prompt?

No. Each style comes with instructions we wrote for it, so you only pick one. If you like, add a note of up to 120 characters, such as blue and silver ornaments or a snowy window. We pass it on as a wish about the scene, never as a change to how anyone looks.

What happens to my photo?

Nothing is sent until you press the button. Then your browser sends a copy of the photo, at most 1,024 pixels on its long side, without its location, camera details or file name, with the style and your note if you wrote one, to uncrop.si, which passes them to one of our AI providers. The new picture comes back to your browser. We keep neither, only a record of the run: the style, the time it took and what it cost. See privacy.

What size is the picture?

Your photo is cut to the closest shape our AI paints, such as 4:3, 3:4, 1:1 or 16:9, so a thin strip at an edge may be left out. Best paints about 1,000 to 1,600 pixels on the long side, and Max about 2,000 to 3,200, for prints and large screens.

Does the picture say it was made with AI?

Yes. The JPG carries the IPTC "digital source type" label for a picture that combines a photo with AI-generated parts, in its XMP metadata, and its name ends in ai. Our AI image checker reads that label. Please tell people it is an AI picture when you share it.

Does it work with pets?

Yes. A pet on its own, or people with their pets, works the same way. In Matching sweaters, pets get a small matching knitted scarf.

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