New Year's Eve Toast

How to make a New Year's Eve photo of yourself with AI

For an AI New Year's Eve photo of yourself, upload one selfie to New Year's Eve Toast and choose one of three scenes; each run is 1 photo on any plan from Free up, and a new account starts with 3 free photos. You come back dressed up and raising a crystal flute of bubbly at midnight: at a candlelit table by the tree, on a rooftop with a sparkler, or under giant gold 2027 balloons.

1. 1Add a clear selfie to Your selfie. What you are wearing in it doesn't matter: every scene brings its own outfit, with a menswear version for men.
2. 2Pick a Scene: By the tree (the default), Rooftop countdown or 2027 balloons. There are no other settings and nothing to type.
3. 3Create it for 1 photo, then add your own greeting in the app you post from: the tree and rooftop scenes carry no text.

How do the three scenes differ?

By the tree is the quiet one: you sit behind a table of candles, canapés and a cheese board, framed from the waist up, the tree at your shoulder and fireworks in the window. The scene asks for candles and the tree as the only light. Women wear a long-sleeved black velvet dress, men a navy velvet blazer over a black turtleneck.

Rooftop countdown asks for the closest crop, from mid-chest up: the glass in one hand, a lit sparkler in the other, fireworks across a black midnight sky, and a silver sequin dress with a cropped faux-fur jacket or a tuxedo jacket under an overcoat. The skyline is invented and kept low; early runs grew a New York-like tower, so real cities are now ruled out. 2027 balloons is shot with direct flash, like a party photo: a gold tinsel curtain, four chrome gold digit balloons behind and above you, falling confetti, a black sequin dress or a black velvet tuxedo jacket.

What does an example run look like?

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  AI-generated sample input

  

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  AI-generated sample input

  

  Result

How do I get a better result?

• Wear your hair the way you'd want it at the party: the template is told to keep loose hair loose and a bun a bun, with no party hat, tiara or headband.
• If you want festive makeup, put it on before the selfie. The scenes allow at most a soft festive touch, never more makeup than your selfie shows.
• Glasses and facial hair are meant to come through as they are, so shave or take the glasses off before the selfie if you want to toast without them.

What goes wrong most often?

• Looking for a way to change the number on the balloons. It is always 2027. For a number of your own, such as your new age as candles or balloons, use Happy Birthday to Me.
• Uploading a photo of the two of you. Only one person appears; for a holiday couple shot, AI Christmas Photoshoot takes an optional second photo of your partner, used with their consent.
• Expecting all four balloon digits inside the frame on a man. The year read in order in all four of our balloon runs, but on men the digits filled the whole width and an outer edge was sometimes cut off.