Painted Tales 1: 16 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Build a painted version of your photo through brushwork, colored shapes and visible surface texture. The examples range from soft illustration to more graphic, expressive painting.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Painted Tales 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 clear light direction, visible outfit shapes and a few distinct background layers.
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 16 looks
1. Soft Relationship Editorial Line Art
Look for: Matte pale gray-green and warm beige brushwork; simple curved contours, economical facial marks, soft color edges and gentle flat layers.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Matte pale gray-green and warm beige brushwork; simple curved contours, economical facial marks, soft color edges and gentle flat 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.
2. Muted Deadpan Picturebook
Look for: Muted gray-brown and subdued green matte paint fields, simplified half-lidded eyes, soft edges with fine grain and a quiet vintage picture-book mood.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Muted gray-brown and subdued green matte paint fields, simplified half-lidded eyes, soft edges with fine grain and a quiet vintage picture-book mood.
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. Dreamlike Surreal Storybook
Look for: Hazy gray-brown colors, softly granular brushwork, diffuse light, naturalistic but economical facial planes, low-contrast space and fine aged-canvas texture.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Hazy gray-brown colors, softly granular brushwork, diffuse light, naturalistic but economical facial planes, low-contrast space and fine aged-canvas 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.
4. Expressive Character Sketch Cartoon
Look for: Elastic character-sketch lines and soft warm color, lively brows and facial marks, selective shaping hatches and delicate pencil-paper texture.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Elastic character-sketch lines and soft warm color, lively brows and facial marks, selective shaping hatches and delicate pencil-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.
5. Midcentury Geometric Fairytale
Look for: Broken blue-green-purple paint blocks with warm yellow, dry brushing and coarse mottled grain; angular and curved storybook shapes with rich flat layers.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Broken blue-green-purple paint blocks with warm yellow, dry brushing and coarse mottled grain; angular and curved storybook shapes with rich flat 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. Grotesque Classical-Comic Portrait
Look for: Eccentric asymmetric facial rendering and exaggerated graphic eyes, mixed thick and thin gray-green and ochre-red paint, abrasive strokes and grotesque painted-comic character.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Eccentric asymmetric facial rendering and exaggerated graphic eyes, mixed thick and thin gray-green and ochre-red paint, abrasive strokes and grotesque painted-comic character.
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. Raw Art-Brut Figure
Look for: Heavy black scraped contours, mottled red, gray and blue paint layers, raw human-shaped graphic reduction and rough economical facial marks.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Heavy black scraped contours, mottled red, gray and blue paint layers, raw human-shaped graphic reduction and rough economical 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.
8. Poetic Geometric Symbol Figure
Look for: Fine lines dividing translucent geometric color planes, warm brown, gray-blue, red and yellow overlays, tiny symbolic features and matte paper texture.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine lines dividing translucent geometric color planes, warm brown, gray-blue, red and yellow overlays, tiny symbolic features and matte 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.
9. Biomorphic Symbolic Character
Look for: Free organic black lines with red, yellow and blue fields, symbolic features and finely granular paint; abstracted but recognizable silhouettes.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Free organic black lines with red, yellow and blue fields, symbolic features and finely granular paint; abstracted but recognizable 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.
10. Quiet Low-Saturation Japanese Editorial
Look for: Muted pale gray-green and off-white, fine-grained flat color shapes and delicate lines, restrained facial detail and soft low-contrast depth.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Muted pale gray-green and off-white, fine-grained flat color shapes and delicate lines, restrained facial detail and soft low-contrast depth.
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. Rebellious Big-Head Deadpan Figure
Look for: Muted ochre-red and gray-green matte layers, rounded facial planes and slanted half-lidded eyes, tiny mouth, soft edges, sparse lines and quiet aged-paper grain.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Muted ochre-red and gray-green matte layers, rounded facial planes and slanted half-lidded eyes, tiny mouth, soft edges, sparse lines and quiet 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.
12. Delicate Emotional Female Line
Look for: Flowing fine line detail with soft low-contrast layered color, pink-gray-green warm light, tiny highlights, subtly animated facial reduction and paper texture.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Flowing fine line detail with soft low-contrast layered color, pink-gray-green warm light, tiny highlights, subtly animated facial reduction and 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.
13. Playful Marker Fairytale Character
Look for: Opaque saturated red, yellow, blue and green marker fields, slightly uneven layered strokes, tiny dot features, no heavy black outline and bright playful color.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Opaque saturated red, yellow, blue and green marker fields, slightly uneven layered strokes, tiny dot features, no heavy black outline and bright playful color.
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. Soft Dreamy Animated Illustration
Look for: Cream-gold soft light with pale green and gray-blue washes, soft rounded edges, tiny expressive eyes, delicate brushwork, warm paper luminosity and dreamy air.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Cream-gold soft light with pale green and gray-blue washes, soft rounded edges, tiny expressive eyes, delicate brushwork, warm paper luminosity and dreamy air.
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.
15. Cinematic Saturated Story Illustration
Look for: Saturated blue-green with warm golden light, painterly dimensional layers, rounded luminous eyes and softly rendered facial planes, broken small brush marks and animated-film atmosphere.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Saturated blue-green with warm golden light, painterly dimensional layers, rounded luminous eyes and softly rendered facial planes, broken small brush marks and animated-film atmosphere.
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.
16. Ornate Flowing Eastern Fantasy Figure
Look for: Soft finely painted warm white, red and green layers, flowing delicate strokes and scattered highlights, rounded comic facial rendering and intricate decorative finish.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Soft finely painted warm white, red and green layers, flowing delicate strokes and scattered highlights, rounded comic facial rendering and intricate decorative 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.
Refine the result
Name the brush behavior in the chosen recipe. Broad opaque strokes, soft blended areas and dry edges create different results, even with the same colors.
A grain overlay alone will not create a painted scene. The shapes and transitions should also follow the painting style.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.