Graphic Stories 1: 13 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Turn a photo into a graphic illustration built from clear silhouettes, simplified features and carefully separated color shapes. Compare the line weight and the amount of shading in each example before choosing a look.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Graphic Stories 1.
- Browse the examples below and select the filter with the matching name.
- Upload a clear photo with the face and main subject fully visible.
- Generate your image, then check the face, hands, outfit and background before saving it.
Choose your photo: Photos with a readable pose, distinct clothing shapes and a background that can be reduced to a few large forms.
How to use the prompts
Each prompt below is a self-contained recipe for one uploaded photo plus written style instructions. Use it in an image-editing tool that accepts a photo and a text prompt. No second style image is needed. In Vidream, choosing the named filter uses its preset treatment.
The gallery shows the current Vidream filter examples in a 3:4 display crop. The written recipes describe those looks; a new generation can vary in fine detail and likeness.
All 13 looks
1. Playful Deadpan Doodle
Look for: Thick rounded black outlines, bold flat fills, half-lidded graphic eyes and a tiny mouth, subtle paper grain, deadpan humor.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Thick rounded black outlines, bold flat fills, half-lidded graphic eyes and a tiny mouth, subtle paper grain, deadpan humor.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
2. Geometric Literary Deadpan
Look for: Rounded squares and circles organize the forms; muted gray-blue, brown and deep ink shapes, tiny facial marks, clean flat fills with fine paper texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded squares and circles organize the forms; muted gray-blue, brown and deep ink shapes, tiny facial marks, clean flat fills with fine paper texture.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
3. Minimal Visual-Pun Editorial
Look for: Clean limited-color flat shapes, warm orange against forest green, geometric contours and sparse structural lines; compressed depth and clear negative space.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Clean limited-color flat shapes, warm orange against forest green, geometric contours and sparse structural lines; compressed depth and clear negative space.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
4. Bold Flat Everyday Satire
Look for: Rounded cartoon outlines, large red, green and blue flat fills; facial features reduced to black dots and arcs, selective heavy edges and restrained shadows.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded cartoon outlines, large red, green and blue flat fills; facial features reduced to black dots and arcs, selective heavy edges and restrained shadows.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
5. Minimal Deadpan Dialogue Cartoon
Look for: Muted blue-gray and gray-green flat fills, fine closed black contours, dot eyes and a short mouth line; restrained rounded forms and very little shading.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Muted blue-gray and gray-green flat fills, fine closed black contours, dot eyes and a short mouth line; restrained rounded forms and very little shading.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
6. Explosive Webcomic Exaggeration
Look for: Thick elastic black contours, large circular cartoon eyes and expressive mouth shapes, bright saturated fills with a few discrete shadow zones.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Thick elastic black contours, large circular cartoon eyes and expressive mouth shapes, bright saturated fills with a few discrete shadow zones.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
7. Flat Everyday Women Lifestyle
Look for: Rounded everyday illustration forms, clear low-contrast contours, blue-green and cream flat shapes, simple facial marks and gentle local shadows.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded everyday illustration forms, clear low-contrast contours, blue-green and cream flat shapes, simple facial marks and gentle local shadows.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
8. Warm Minimal Female Line Cartoon
Look for: Warm ochre, grass green and cream, relaxed dark-brown lines, tiny facial details and softly warmed cheeks; approachable flat color modeling.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm ochre, grass green and cream, relaxed dark-brown lines, tiny facial details and softly warmed cheeks; approachable flat color modeling.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
9. Geometric Fashion Deadpan
Look for: Angular geometric planes, strong black, orange-red and gray-blue contrasts; symbolic facial rendering, flattened perspective and discrete light-dark shapes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Angular geometric planes, strong black, orange-red and gray-blue contrasts; symbolic facial rendering, flattened perspective and discrete light-dark shapes.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
10. Retro Detached American Comic
Look for: Neat fine black contours, muted purple-green and gray-brown flat fills, half-lidded eyes and a short mouth line, sparse stable shadows.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Neat fine black contours, muted purple-green and gray-brown flat fills, half-lidded eyes and a short mouth line, sparse stable shadows.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
11. Geometric Diagrammatic Narrative
Look for: Ordered rectangles and circles, very fine structural lines, gray-blue-green and cream; geometric spatial layers and tiny facial marks.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Ordered rectangles and circles, very fine structural lines, gray-blue-green and cream; geometric spatial layers and tiny facial marks.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
12. Minimal Newspaper Comic
Look for: Even rounded black lines, simple curved facial forms and small dot eyes; bright gentle flat fills, minimal shading and readable newspaper-comic clarity.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Even rounded black lines, simple curved facial forms and small dot eyes; bright gentle flat fills, minimal shading and readable newspaper-comic clarity.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
13. Bold Pop Satire Cartoon
Look for: Strong closed black contours, round projecting white eyes and dot pupils, high-purity yellow, red, blue and green fills; almost no material gradients.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Strong closed black contours, round projecting white eyes and dot pupils, high-purity yellow, red, blue and green fills; almost no material gradients.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
Refine the result
For a flatter result, ask for fewer tonal layers and clearer color boundaries. For more likeness, retain the face outline and feature spacing while simplifying small details.
If the image still looks photographic, describe the shapes and edges you want instead of asking only for a cartoon filter.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.