Group chats & jokes
Drop a retro class portrait of yourself into the group thread and watch it get quoted back for a week — or run the whole friend group and lay them out as a full yearbook page.
90s Yearbook Photos
Big hair, a laser backdrop, faded film stock — turn your selfie into the class portrait your friends will keep dragging back into the group chat. Pick your era, keep your face, and own the throwback before everyone else starts looking the same.
Before / after
One selfie, a class portrait
A real class-portrait render made here, on the model this page runs. Drag the divider to compare the modern selfie with the retro result, then use your own photo, prompt and decade to make the throwback unmistakably yours.
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AI throwback tool
What is a 90s yearbook photo generator?
The mottled blue laser backdrop, the soft-focus glow, the feathered hair, the collared shirt under a sweater — one selfie restyled as the class portrait you would have sat for in 1996, down to the faded colour of a print that has been in a drawer for thirty years.
Image tool
Instead of digging through a shoebox or booking a novelty studio, you upload a clear picture, describe the decade you want, and the model rebuilds the shot while keeping your face and expression recognisable. Drop in the photo you want dated, choose the output size, and the credit cost settles on screen before anything is spent.
A yearbook shot that fails to render costs nothing. And when it renders, the period detail does the heavy lifting: a portrait dated to the year is the one nobody forgets.
Creative engine
How the retro portrait comes together
Upload a selfie, describe the decade, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
1 selfie
Photo in
Any decade
Era styling
Credits back
Render errors
The shot is rebuilt, not filtered
The model reads your face and rebuilds it as a dated school portrait — the laser backdrop, the soft focus, the specific lighting of a school photographer working fast. A grain overlay on a modern headshot fools nobody.
Name the decade, not just old
Grunge nineties, glamour-shot soft focus, an eighties throwback. The styling follows that brief, and each decade has its own hair, its own collar and its own colour cast — say which one and all three arrive together.
A yearbook portrait dials in the decade you ask for, wrapping your face in era-accurate styling. For something you send rather than file away, the Christmas card and the movie poster use the same photo with a different job.
How to use
Make a retro class portrait in three steps
From one selfie to a dated school portrait, with the cost shown before you commit.
Upload a selfie
Add one clear photo with your face and shoulders visible. A photo with a clear light source—like a window on one side of your face—gives the film grain the contrast it needs to look completely authentic.
Describe the decade
Set the era: a mottled laser backdrop, feathered hair, a sweater over a collar, soft-focus glow, faded print colour. Specific direction keeps the styling on-brief.
Check credits and generate
Generate the portrait and watch your modern photo turn into a nineties print, ready to download.
Who it's for
Who turns a selfie into a throwback
Reunions, group chats, birthday slideshows — the same retro treatment, different excuses.
Creators & nostalgia trends
Ride a throwback trend with a whole set of dated portraits, made from photos you already have.
Reunions & cards
Print a fake class portrait for a reunion, a birthday card, or a gag gift that lands harder than a real photo would.
Answers
Yearbook photo FAQ
Common questions about turning a selfie into a retro class portrait with Kavel.
The backdrop becomes the mottled laser sheet every school used, the light goes soft and hazy, the hair gets feathered, the clothes turn into a collar under a sweater, and the colour fades like a print that sat in a drawer. Your face carries through it all.
No. Free credits arrive with the account, and a run that fails is refunded automatically. Beyond that, cost tracks the resolution and the number of images, and the estimate appears before you generate.
A clear, front-facing shot with your face and shoulders in frame. The joke only lands if it is unmistakably you under the dated hair, and that needs a sharp starting photo.
Yes. Early-nineties grunge, a late-nineties glamour shot, an eighties throwback with a heavier soft focus. Each has its own hair, its own clothes, and its own backdrop, so name the one you want.
Because that is the era. The feathered, over-blow-dried look is doing most of the work — without it the picture just looks like a photo on a blue background. If you want your own hair kept, say so, though the result will read less like the real thing.
Create each friend's portrait separately, then lay the results out as a full yearbook page so every face gets the same era-specific styling. The era cues do most of the work: a soft-focus vignette, a mottled blue-grey backdrop, feathered layers, and the slightly warm colour cast of film that sat in a drugstore envelope for a week before anyone saw it.
Yes — that is a different ask and worth naming precisely. A yearbook portrait means the studio setup: mottled blue backdrop, shoulders squared to camera, even key light. A 35mm restyle keeps whatever composition your photo already has and changes the film stock instead: visible grain, slightly cool shadows, highlights that roll off rather than clip. Say which of the two you want, because asking vaguely for a film look tends to land halfway between them and read as neither.
Three things, in the order they matter: grain that sits in the midtones rather than the shadows, a colour cast that shifts the whole frame instead of just the highlights, and shadows that stay open rather than crushing to black. Name the decade along with the grain, the colour cast and the shadows, and you are in control of the finished film look.
Film's character shows up in how it handles contrast, so the most convincing result comes from a selfie with directional light — a window, a lamp or sun on one side of the face — giving the grain and contrast room to shine.
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Pick a year and the props come with it — the backdrop, the hair, the film stock. Free credits arrive with your account, so claim the class portrait that should have been in your yearbook all along.