Graphic Stories 2: 14 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 2.
- 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 14 looks
1. Busy Anthropomorphic Everyday World
Look for: Clear rounded comic contours, bright red, yellow, blue and green flat fills; friendly dot-and-arc features, small graphic details and a vintage picture-book finish.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Clear rounded comic contours, bright red, yellow, blue and green flat fills; friendly dot-and-arc features, small graphic details and a vintage picture-book finish.
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. Bendy Absurd Storybook
Look for: Flowing elastic curves with pointed accents, bright red, blue, yellow and green flat fills; expressive but legible cartoon facial marks.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Flowing elastic curves with pointed accents, bright red, blue, yellow and green flat fills; expressive but legible cartoon 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.
3. Bold Geometric Picturebook
Look for: Large geometric color shapes with minimal line work, deep blue-green against red-orange, round graphic eyes and simple features, hard-edged flat shadows.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Large geometric color shapes with minimal line work, deep blue-green against red-orange, round graphic eyes and simple features, hard-edged flat 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.
4. European Clear-Line Adventure Figure
Look for: Even closed black lines, clean flat color, dot eyes and simple nose and mouth, small local shadows and clear adventure-comic readability.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Even closed black lines, clean flat color, dot eyes and simple nose and mouth, small local shadows and clear adventure-comic readability.
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. Geometric European Clear-Line Figure
Look for: Alternating rounded and angular geometry, fine black structural lines, restrained blue-green and ochre flat colors, orderly architectural layers.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Alternating rounded and angular geometry, fine black structural lines, restrained blue-green and ochre flat colors, orderly architectural layers.
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. Retro Geometric City Cartoon
Look for: Heavy black outlines, rounded geometric features, strong red, yellow, blue and green, very sparse shading and crisp vintage commercial-cartoon color shapes.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Heavy black outlines, rounded geometric features, strong red, yellow, blue and green, very sparse shading and crisp vintage commercial-cartoon color 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.
7. Minimal Bold-Color Fashion Geometry
Look for: Large highly saturated red, green, pink and blue fields, minimal curved shapes and tiny dot features, almost no intricate line work or texture.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Large highly saturated red, green, pink and blue fields, minimal curved shapes and tiny dot features, almost no intricate line work or 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.
8. High-Contrast Negative-Space Figure
Look for: Limited navy, black, cream and small red accents; silhouettes and negative space construct forms, minimal internal contours and hard-edged contrast.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Limited navy, black, cream and small red accents; silhouettes and negative space construct forms, minimal internal contours and hard-edged contrast.
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. Negative-Space Visual-Pun Graphic
Look for: Deep green and cream dominate; positive and negative shapes carve contours, flattened symbolic background layers and very little internal detail.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Deep green and cream dominate; positive and negative shapes carve contours, flattened symbolic background layers and very little internal detail.
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. Ultra-Geometric Nature Character
Look for: Circles, triangles and rectangles construct the existing forms, clear color separation, blue-green with orange-red accents, dot features and minimal geometric space.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Circles, triangles and rectangles construct the existing forms, clear color separation, blue-green with orange-red accents, dot features and minimal geometric 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.
11. Bold Retro Advertising Cartoon
Look for: Thick curved black contours, rounded graphic nose and mouth, expressive eyes and brows, rich primary-color fills and selective dark cast shadows.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Thick curved black contours, rounded graphic nose and mouth, expressive eyes and brows, rich primary-color fills and selective dark cast 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.
12. Bold Kinetic Street-Pictogram
Look for: Thick even black contours and saturated red, yellow and green flat fills, dynamic simplified shapes, rounded joints and sparse rhythmic short marks.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Thick even black contours and saturated red, yellow and green flat fills, dynamic simplified shapes, rounded joints and sparse rhythmic short 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.
13. Showa Retro Commercial Cartoon
Look for: Rounded black lines and vintage red, yellow and blue flat color, dot eyes, curved brows and a simple smile, sparse warm shadows and aged paper grain.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded black lines and vintage red, yellow and blue flat color, dot eyes, curved brows and a simple smile, sparse warm shadows and aged paper grain.
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.
14. Yuru-Surreal Minimal Everyday Cartoon
Look for: Minimal rounded contours and pastel fills, tiny dark eyes and mouth, gentle cheek color, soft low-contrast shadows and spare everyday illustration.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Minimal rounded contours and pastel fills, tiny dark eyes and mouth, gentle cheek color, soft low-contrast shadows and spare everyday illustration.
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.