Watercolor Days 1: 14 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Use transparent color, softened edges and paper-like light to turn a photo into a watercolor scene. Compare how much ink, pigment texture and unpainted space each example uses.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Watercolor Days 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: Bright photos with open space around the subject and a background that is not dominated by deep shadow.
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. Fine-Line Urban Miniature
Look for: Fine broken pen marks beneath very pale gray-green watercolor; intricate low-contrast distances, contours dissolving into white paper, gentle naturalistic detail.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine broken pen marks beneath very pale gray-green watercolor; intricate low-contrast distances, contours dissolving into white paper, gentle naturalistic 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.
2. Watercolor Handwritten Life Notes
Look for: Fine black lines and pale transparent watercolor, gently warmed cheek color, sparse facial strokes, soft wet edges, small paper-white highlights and visible paper grain.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine black lines and pale transparent watercolor, gently warmed cheek color, sparse facial strokes, soft wet edges, small paper-white highlights and visible 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.
3. Loose Ink-and-Wash Storybook
Look for: Light broken pen sketching with dilute watercolor, relaxed simplified shapes, occasional color beyond contours, ample white paper and transparent wet edges.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Light broken pen sketching with dilute watercolor, relaxed simplified shapes, occasional color beyond contours, ample white paper and transparent wet edges.
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. Warm Vintage Line-and-Wash
Look for: Warm cream paper, fine brown-gray lines and soft watercolor; classical naturalistic detail, thin shadows, soft edges and aged book texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm cream paper, fine brown-gray lines and soft watercolor; classical naturalistic detail, thin shadows, soft edges and aged book 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. Naturalist Watercolor Animal Storybook
Look for: Detailed naturalistic watercolor, translucent ochre and blue-green layers, selective dry-brush surface detail, luminous paper and soft light.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Detailed naturalistic watercolor, translucent ochre and blue-green layers, selective dry-brush surface detail, luminous paper and soft light.
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. Quirky Ink-and-Watercolor Tale
Look for: Simple dark ink lines and uneven watercolor fields, large simplified eyes and a small mouth, aged paper grain, gray-green and warm red accents.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Simple dark ink lines and uneven watercolor fields, large simplified eyes and a small mouth, aged paper grain, gray-green and warm red accents.
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 Poetic Picturebook Doodle
Look for: Very few fine strokes, delicate simplified forms, thin pale blue-green watercolor, dominant paper whites and dot-and-line facial reduction.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Very few fine strokes, delicate simplified forms, thin pale blue-green watercolor, dominant paper whites and dot-and-line facial reduction.
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. Airy Transparent Watercolor Figure
Look for: Very pale transparent yellow-green and gray-blue watercolor, dissolving wet edges, tiny light facial marks, paper-white illumination and visible tide marks.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Very pale transparent yellow-green and gray-blue watercolor, dissolving wet edges, tiny light facial marks, paper-white illumination and visible tide 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.
9. Fashion Diary Sketch Girl
Look for: Fine casual drawing and loose pale washes, brief folds and contour strokes, tiny eye marks and softly warmed cheeks, abundant luminous paper whites.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine casual drawing and loose pale washes, brief folds and contour strokes, tiny eye marks and softly warmed cheeks, abundant luminous paper whites.
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. Loose Deadpan Everyday Sketch
Look for: Loose fine contours, dilute muted green-gray washes, small dot eyes and a short mouth, simple rounded forms with exposed paper throughout.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Loose fine contours, dilute muted green-gray washes, small dot eyes and a short mouth, simple rounded forms with exposed paper throughout.
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. Friendly Girl-Diary Cartoon
Look for: Rounded facial planes, arc-like expressive eyes and a dot nose, warm pink-blue-green washes, light contours and natural paper grain with soft storybook texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rounded facial planes, arc-like expressive eyes and a dot nose, warm pink-blue-green washes, light contours and natural paper grain with soft storybook 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.
12. Warm Slightly-Strange Everyday Line
Look for: Warm aged cream paper, muted gray-green and pink-ochre, delicate contours and gentle tiny features, thin layered washes and finely broken texture.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm aged cream paper, muted gray-green and pink-ochre, delicate contours and gentle tiny features, thin layered washes and finely broken 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. Soft Magazine Line-and-Wash
Look for: Fine light contours with transparent gray-blue-green watercolor, economical facial marks, softly bleeding color edges, white paper and fine grain creating luminous softness.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Fine light contours with transparent gray-blue-green watercolor, economical facial marks, softly bleeding color edges, white paper and fine grain creating luminous softness.
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. Transparent Watercolor Magazine Figure
Look for: Transparent naturalistic watercolor, alternating fine strokes and soft wet edges, warm light and green reflections, luminous paper and gently simplified facial rendering.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Transparent naturalistic watercolor, alternating fine strokes and soft wet edges, warm light and green reflections, luminous paper and gently simplified facial rendering.
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
Ask for transparent washes and selective edge softness. Keep a few sharper marks around the features or silhouette so the subject does not disappear into the wash.
Heavy opaque shading can remove the watercolor character. Keep the pigment and paper treatment described in your selected recipe.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.