Convert a photo to anime style
Anime treatment that still resembles the actual person.
The prompt
68 wordsRedraw this portrait in a modern anime style. Use clean confident linework, flat cel shading with distinct shadow shapes rather than soft gradients, and slightly enlarged expressive eyes with visible highlights. Keep the person clearly recognisable: preserve their hairstyle, hair colour, skin tone, face shape and the character of their expression. Use a simple, softly blurred background that complements the subject. Bright, appealing colour palette with clean edges.
Getting the best result
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The 'clearly recognisable' clause is what stops it returning a generic anime face.
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For a specific look, name the era: '1990s cel-animation look' reads very differently from modern digital anime.
Where to use it
Paste this into any AI image tool that accepts a text instruction — upload your photo first, then paste the prompt as the edit instruction. The wording is deliberately explicit, because the constraints are what stop the model drifting away from what you asked for.