Upload a photo of yourself or of a place you love. Image to anime AI redraws it with anime line work and cel shading, and keeps your hairstyle, outfit and pose, or the shape of the street, so it is still your picture.
Best for text in images: posters, signs and labels.
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AfterTwo portraits, a full-length street photo and a city scene with no people. Tap “Use this prompt”, add your own photo and run it.
“Turn this into a 1990s cel anime frame: the same adult woman in her beige trench coat, jeans and white sneakers on the city sidewalk, a hand-painted street background, slightly grainy colors and a soft overcast sky.”
“Repaint this street as an anime film background: glowing shop windows, wet pavement reflecting the lights, a purple and orange dusk sky, detailed painted buildings and no people in the foreground. Keep the street layout and camera angle.”
“Make an action anime portrait of this man in his mid-thirties: sharp line art, strong cel shadows, a determined look and deep blue speed lines behind him. Keep his hairstyle, face shape and navy polo shirt.”
The model draws with anime rules (large clear eyes, simple noses, flat shadows with crisp edges) but keeps what makes the photo yours. You choose how far it goes.
Head-and-shoulders photos become clean anime portraits for profile pictures, stream overlays or a gift for your partner. Hair color, glasses and clothes carry over.
Travel photos, your street or your apartment turn into painted anime backgrounds with glowing windows and big skies. They make good wallpapers and story backdrops.
1990s cel anime has grain and hand-painted skies, modern TV anime is crisp and bright, and anime film scenery has rich light and dense detail. Name one and the whole picture follows.
Use a clear, front-lit photo of one adult, or a place with a strong view. Tap the + tile, drag a picture in or paste it.
Name the era or finish and the mood, for example “modern TV anime, soft cel shading, spring colors”.
Hairstyle, outfit, pose, glasses, the shape of a building. GPT Image 2.5 is selected by default; Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro usually keep faces closest.
Most images are ready within a few minutes (free accounts wait at least 2 minutes on premium models). Save it at full size with no watermark.
In anime, hair does most of the work of telling characters apart. Describe your cut, parting and color so the drawing keeps them.
Anime styles tend to make faces look younger. Write “adult woman in her twenties” or “man in his mid-thirties” and mention your build so the character matches your age.
Busy backgrounds turn into noise in anime line art. Ask for bokeh, a plain wall or a painted sky behind a portrait.
Run the same photo as 1990s cel anime and as modern TV anime. Color and line weight change a lot, and one usually suits your photo better.
An anime filter smooths skin and enlarges the eyes on top of your picture. Image to anime AI draws the picture again: line art first, then flat color and crisp-edged shadows, the way an anime frame is built. The pose, the outfit and the camera angle come from your photo, and the drawing style comes from your prompt.
This page starts with GPT Image 2.5, which follows detailed style notes and keeps small details such as buttons, earrings and shop windows in place. For portraits where likeness matters most, choose Nano Banana 2 or Nano Banana Pro. Seedream 5 is good at saturated sunset color, and FLUX.2 is free for signed-in accounts and redraws one photo at no credit cost.
New accounts get 8 free credits, then 4 more each day from the second day. GPT Image 2.5 costs 3 credits at 1K, 4 at 2K and 7 at 4K, and the cost shows before you generate.
Anime portraits on this site are of adults only. Photos of minors, sexual content and images meant to deceive or harass a real person are blocked. To invent original characters without a photo, use the AI Anime Generator page instead.
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