Graphic Stories 3: 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 3.
- 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. Minimal Absurd Short-Gag Cartoon
Look for: Simple even closed black lines, dot eyes and a short mouth, rounded rectangular forms, blue-green and warm cream fills, minimal shadows and calm deadpan expression.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Simple even closed black lines, dot eyes and a short mouth, rounded rectangular forms, blue-green and warm cream fills, minimal shadows and calm deadpan expression.
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. Minimal Quirky Motion Character
Look for: Rounded geometric contours, dot-and-dash features and a small graphic mouth, simple warm yellow and blue-green shapes with gentle flat cartoon clarity.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded geometric contours, dot-and-dash features and a small graphic mouth, simple warm yellow and blue-green shapes with gentle flat cartoon 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.
3. Pop-Culture Minimal Figure
Look for: Rounded color fields with minimal line work, fresh blue, green, red and white contrast, dot eyes and a short mouth, virtually no gradients.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded color fields with minimal line work, fresh blue, green, red and white contrast, dot eyes and a short mouth, virtually no 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.
4. Loose Pop Advertising Girl
Look for: Clear fine black comic outlines, broad pale blue-green fields with warm light, tiny eye and nose marks, reduced folds and flat advertising-illustration clarity.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Clear fine black comic outlines, broad pale blue-green fields with warm light, tiny eye and nose marks, reduced folds and flat advertising-illustration 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.
5. Soft Empathy Social Comic
Look for: Rounded even-weight contours, curved expressive eyes and warm cheek accents, gentle blue-green pastels, sparse paper grain and extremely light shadows.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded even-weight contours, curved expressive eyes and warm cheek accents, gentle blue-green pastels, sparse paper grain and extremely light 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.
6. Minimal Youth Emotion Comic
Look for: Flat gray-green, pale blue and cream coloring, delicate contours and dot features, sparse colored shadows and calm low-complexity illustration.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Flat gray-green, pale blue and cream coloring, delicate contours and dot features, sparse colored shadows and calm low-complexity 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.
7. Fast-Paced Chinese Meme Comic
Look for: Thick closed black contours, expressive large graphic eyes and mouth, blue-green-red-yellow flat fills, small shadow shapes and crisp online-comic clarity.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Thick closed black contours, expressive large graphic eyes and mouth, blue-green-red-yellow flat fills, small shadow shapes and crisp online-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.
8. Japanese Deadpan Loose-Line Cartoon
Look for: Very fine clear outlines, relaxed rounded forms, tiny dot eyes and a short mouth, large gray-green and pale blue fills, no heavy shadows and a loose flat-comic finish.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Very fine clear outlines, relaxed rounded forms, tiny dot eyes and a short mouth, large gray-green and pale blue fills, no heavy shadows and a loose flat-comic 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.
9. Korean Lifestyle Doodle
Look for: Cream ground, soft fine contours and flat gray-green and light brown, round dot eyes and warm cheek accents, calm rounded forms and sparse shadows.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Cream ground, soft fine contours and flat gray-green and light brown, round dot eyes and warm cheek accents, calm rounded forms and sparse 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.
10. Deadpan Doodle
Look for: Fine black contours with flat gray-green and pale blue, relaxed half-lidded eyes, minimal shadows and clear rounded forms.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine black contours with flat gray-green and pale blue, relaxed half-lidded eyes, minimal shadows and clear rounded forms.
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. Korean High-Saturation Pop Doodle
Look for: Bright yellow, blue, green and pink pop-comic flat color, clear black lines, large graphic eyes, sparse hard-edged shadows and clean shapes.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Bright yellow, blue, green and pink pop-comic flat color, clear black lines, large graphic eyes, sparse hard-edged shadows and clean 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.
12. Stylized Graphic 2D Animation Character
Look for: Modern two-dimensional graphic planes, bright teal-green, yellow and dark brown, large angular graphic eyes, clear hard-edged shadows and crisp silhouettes.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Modern two-dimensional graphic planes, bright teal-green, yellow and dark brown, large angular graphic eyes, clear hard-edged shadows and crisp silhouettes.
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. Scandinavian Folk-Art Naive Storybook
Look for: Nordic folk-art flat illustration, matte blue, ochre-yellow, green and rust, tiny round eyes and cheek accents, simplified patterns and dry-brushed paper texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Nordic folk-art flat illustration, matte blue, ochre-yellow, green and rust, tiny round eyes and cheek accents, simplified patterns and dry-brushed 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.
14. Minimalist Organic Pastel Editorial
Look for: Minimal organic pastel shapes, pale cream and gray-green, large clean color fields, tiny rounded facial marks and very sparse contours and shading.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Minimal organic pastel shapes, pale cream and gray-green, large clean color fields, tiny rounded facial marks and very sparse contours and 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.
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.