AI Winter Photo Trend: Snowy Night Portrait From a Selfie

How to make the snowy winter portrait with AI

To do the AI winter photo trend without writing a long prompt, upload one selfie to Winter Fairytale Portrait and pick a coat. It costs 1 photo per run on any plan, and new accounts get 3 free photos. You get a close night portrait cut at mid-chest: heavy snow at every depth, flakes in your hair, a small cloud of breath, and a Christmas market on an old-town square melted into warm bokeh behind you.

1. 1Upload a close-up selfie in daylight to Your selfie. Your face, hair, glasses and build carry over; the coat, the night and the snow come from the template.
2. 2Choose the Outfit: Faux-fur coat is the default, or Wool coat & scarf. Men automatically get the menswear cut of the one they pick.
3. 3Press Create (1 photo). The portrait lands in My creations, ready for a post or a card layout.

What do the coats look like up close, and why don't men get a hat?

On women, the faux-fur hat sits on the upper forehead, clear of the brows, with hair showing at the temples; our first runs pulled it down to the brows. Both women's outfits add cream knit gloves, and a gloved hand may hold the collar closed. Under the coats go turtlenecks: cream with the women's wool coat, dark under the men's shearling, navy under the charcoal overcoat.

Men get no hat in either outfit: in our runs a round fur hat didn't suit men, and a knit beanie slid down to the brows and hid the hairline.

What can you use it for?

• A December profile picture: your face fills about a third of the frame width.
• A Christmas card photo with no lettering anywhere, so your greeting is the only text.
• The first cold-weather post of the season, made in October from a summer selfie.

What does an example run look like?

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  AI-generated sample input

  

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  AI-generated sample input

  

  Result

Which selfie works best for the snow portrait?

• Wear glasses in the selfie only if you want them in the snow: the template is set to keep glasses, a beard and stubble exactly as they are.
• Put on the makeup you want before the selfie: the portrait is told not to go heavier than your photo, and the cold adds at most a faint pink to the nose and cheekbones.
• In one run a tied-back puff under the women's faux-fur hat came out as loose curls. The template now asks for tied-back hair to stay tied back, but we haven't re-tested it; Wool coat & scarf has no hat if you'd rather not risk it.
• Deep skin tones stay as deep as in the selfie. The warm market light is told not to lighten or warm the skin, and on both of our deep-skin test faces it didn't.

What goes wrong most often?

• Expecting to show off the whole coat. The frame stops at mid-chest, so only the collar and the scarf make it in.
• Hoping for a famous square behind you. The template asks for a blurred background with no readable signs and no recognizable building, though tower shapes still show in both examples below. For a snowy scene that stays sharp, try Snow Globe Portrait.
• Using a selfie with a big open-mouthed laugh. The portrait sets a soft half-smile with parted lips for the breath cloud, so the laugh is lost anyway.