Retro Prints 1: 12 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Explore graphic portraits influenced by printed color, visible grain and deliberately reduced shading. The examples vary in palette, edge treatment and the way printed texture is distributed.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Retro Prints 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 strong silhouettes, distinct clothing colors and a composition that remains readable when simplified.
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 12 looks
1. Folk-Line Decorative Storybook
Look for: Fine decorative contours and regular patterned strokes, ochre, deep blue and cream vintage inks, paper grain and flattened folk-book layers.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine decorative contours and regular patterned strokes, ochre, deep blue and cream vintage inks, paper grain and flattened folk-book 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. Retro Pop Editorial Figure
Look for: Strong red, yellow, blue and black flat shapes, weighty contours, sparse internal lines and matte printing grain; vintage advertising illustration.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Strong red, yellow, blue and black flat shapes, weighty contours, sparse internal lines and matte printing grain; vintage advertising 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.
3. Decorative Retro Commercial Illustration
Look for: Fine decorative lines, vintage blue-green and ochre-red fills, patterned material treatment, warm paper and mottled printing; ornate flattened picture-book layers.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine decorative lines, vintage blue-green and ochre-red fills, patterned material treatment, warm paper and mottled printing; ornate flattened picture-book 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.
4. Flat Belle-Époque Poster Figure
Look for: Warm ochre-yellow and dark green flat poster colors, fine soft contours, sparse colored shadows, grainy aged paper and vintage printed ink.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm ochre-yellow and dark green flat poster colors, fine soft contours, sparse colored shadows, grainy aged paper and vintage printed ink.
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. Cinematic Grainy Flat-Shape Illustration
Look for: Deep blue shadow silhouettes against warm orange light, progressively darker layered color shapes, coarse shadow grain and reduced facial detail.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Deep blue shadow silhouettes against warm orange light, progressively darker layered color shapes, coarse shadow grain and reduced facial 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.
6. Retro Silkscreen Geometric Figure
Look for: Dense blue-green, ochre-yellow and red-orange inks, rounded geometric forms and tiny features, exposed paper pores within color layers and vintage multicolor printing.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Dense blue-green, ochre-yellow and red-orange inks, rounded geometric forms and tiny features, exposed paper pores within color layers and vintage multicolor printing.
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. Dense East-Asian Fantasy Editorial
Look for: Dense deep teal-green and ochre-gold with warm red, fine decorative lines and aged paper mottling; clear simplified facial rendering and ornate flattened layers.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Dense deep teal-green and ochre-gold with warm red, fine decorative lines and aged paper mottling; clear simplified facial rendering and ornate flattened 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.
8. Blue-Orange Grainy Chinese Editorial
Look for: Limited blue and warm orange overprints, cream paper and dense exposed-paper grain, fine lines alongside broad flat shadows, simple comic features.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Limited blue and warm orange overprints, cream paper and dense exposed-paper grain, fine lines alongside broad flat shadows, simple comic features.
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. Modern New-Guofeng Flat-Line Illustration
Look for: Fluid fine dark lines, flat gray-green, warm ochre and cream shapes, finely patterned material treatment, spare elegant facial rendering and traditional album-print texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fluid fine dark lines, flat gray-green, warm ochre and cream shapes, finely patterned material treatment, spare elegant facial rendering and traditional album-print 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.
10. Decorative Guochao Character Illustration
Look for: Ornate flowing fine lines, vintage teal-green, orange-red and golden-yellow fields, clear decorative contours, fine-grained paper and bright simplified facial marks.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Ornate flowing fine lines, vintage teal-green, orange-red and golden-yellow fields, clear decorative contours, fine-grained paper and bright simplified 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.
11. Contemporary Chinese Cultural Editorial
Look for: Deep teal-green, warm orange and cream flat shapes, coarse paper texture and uneven printed ink, economical comic features and depth arranged through color layers.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Deep teal-green, warm orange and cream flat shapes, coarse paper texture and uneven printed ink, economical comic features and depth arranged through color 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.
12. Two-Color Risograph Drawing
Look for: Blue-and-orange two-color risograph illustration on cream paper, coarse ink grain, slight registration misalignment, hand-drawn contours and simplified flat light-dark shapes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Blue-and-orange two-color risograph illustration on cream paper, coarse ink grain, slight registration misalignment, hand-drawn contours and simplified flat 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.
Refine the result
Begin with the palette and edge treatment in the recipe. Add grain lightly enough that the face and main color shapes still read at a small size.
Avoid covering the whole image with the same noise. Printed texture should support the forms rather than obscure them.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.