Paper Studio: 6 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Explore scenes organized as cut, layered or textured paper. Compare the shapes, edge treatment and shallow shadows that give each example its particular handmade quality.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Paper Studio.
- 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 separated foreground and background shapes and a pose that reads as a simple silhouette.
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 6 looks
1. Layered Vintage Storybook Collage
Look for: Layered textured vintage paper pieces, geometric contours and simple large eyes, warm yellow-brown, gray-green and red accents with fine printed grain.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Layered textured vintage paper pieces, geometric contours and simple large eyes, warm yellow-brown, gray-green and red accents with fine printed 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.
2. Rough Cut-Paper Modernist Graphic
Look for: Rough black and red cut-paper geometry, warm paper-white negative space, angular cut edges and small ink-textured patches; symbolic shapes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough black and red cut-paper geometry, warm paper-white negative space, angular cut edges and small ink-textured patches; symbolic 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.
3. Playful Modernist Collage Character
Look for: Circle, triangle and rectangle colored-paper collage, red, yellow, blue and green on cream, handmade edges and light paper grain, toy-like geometric facial marks.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Circle, triangle and rectangle colored-paper collage, red, yellow, blue and green on cream, handmade edges and light paper grain, toy-like geometric 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.
4. Freeform Cut-Paper Figure
Look for: Free curved cut-paper color shapes, blue, green, yellow and red against cream negative shapes; deliberately sparse facial marks and no continuous shading.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Free curved cut-paper color shapes, blue, green, yellow and red against cream negative shapes; deliberately sparse facial marks and no continuous 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.
5. Whimsical Watercolor Die-Cut Sticker Cartoon
Look for: Watercolor-cartoon paper cutouts with slim white die-cut margins, pale gouache, expressive eyes and paper grain; layered shapes remain within the original single scene, without an outer page frame.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Watercolor-cartoon paper cutouts with slim white die-cut margins, pale gouache, expressive eyes and paper grain; layered shapes remain within the original single scene, without an outer page frame.
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. Textured Cut-Paper Collage Storybook
Look for: Cut-paper collage with visible layered paper thickness, tiny cast shadows, fibrous paper grain and flat color shapes; facial details constructed from simple paper pieces and sparse lines.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Cut-paper collage with visible layered paper thickness, tiny cast shadows, fibrous paper grain and flat color shapes; facial details constructed from simple paper pieces and sparse lines.
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
Use the paper structure described in the selected recipe. Distinct layers and restrained edge shadows often matter more than adding extra decorative objects.
Keep the original scene recognizable. Avoid inventing scrapbook props or text when they are not part of the intended look.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.