Kid’s Christmas Portrait

How to make a Christmas portrait of your kid with AI

For Christmas photo ideas for kids that need only one snapshot, upload a clear picture of your child to Kid's Christmas Portrait and pick one of five scenes: 1 photo per portrait on any plan, with 3 free photos for new accounts. It looks like a December mini-session with a family photographer: pajamas by the lit tree, a book by the fire, a sled in the snow, cookie baking or a pile of presents, with your kid's face and age unchanged.

1. 1Find a recent photo where your child's face is sharp and turned toward you, with nobody else in it. A phone snapshot by a window is enough.
2. 2Choose the Scene: Pajamas by the tree (the default), Reading by the fire, Sled in the snow, Baking cookies or With presents. Tick the parent or guardian box and press Create (1 photo).
3. 3Keep the photo and change only the Scene for a second version, so you can choose the better one for the card.

What does each of the five scenes look like?

By the tree: tartan flannel pajamas, a sheepskin rug and a shiny red glass ornament held in the lap. By the fire: a cream cable-knit sweater, a worn leather armchair and a plaid blanket. In the snow: a wooden sled with curved red runners, a red coat and mittens at golden hour, and no hat, so your child's own hair shows. In the kitchen: a small red apron, a star cookie cutter and flour on one cheek. With presents: a gift held up for a shake among wrapped boxes.

Two details come straight from our test runs on sample photos. Open storybook pages kept growing lines of fake text, so the reading scene now shows only the book's blank green cloth back. And asking for rosy cheeks painted pink circles on the skin, so the cheeks now keep the color they have in your photo.

What can you use it for?

• The front of a holiday card when you want just one child on it.
• A matching set for siblings: run the same scene once for each child and frame them side by side.
• A pair of keepsakes from the same kid, with one of their drawings on a glass ball in Drawing to Christmas Ornament.

How do I pick the right photo of my kid?

• Use a picture from this autumn rather than last winter. The portrait shows your child at the age they are in the upload, and a year changes a small face a lot.
• Let the hair show. Curls, braids, bangs, puffs and the exact length are copied, so a photo under a hood or a beanie leaves the hairstyle to guesswork.
• Any natural smile will do. A gap where a tooth fell out stays a gap, freckles and dimples stay, and glasses stay on if your kid wears them in the photo.

What goes wrong most often?

• Uploading a photo with a brother, sister or parent in it. Each portrait has one child; for siblings together or the whole family, use Family Christmas Card.
• Expecting Santa or an elf beside your child. No other people, figures or dolls of them are added; for Santa in your own living room at night, there is Santa Caught on Camera.
• Judging the likeness by the sled shot alone. Its big laugh made one of our test kids look about half a year older; run it again or try a quieter scene if that happens.