One selfie in · A birthday portrait out · Cost shown before you generate
Upload one selfie and turn it into a glamorous birthday shoot — keep your face, pick the scene, and see the credit cost before you generate.
Upload one clear selfie and the model stages the whole scene around you — party dress, gold balloons, a lit cake — while the face stays unmistakably yours.
A glamorous studio set, a fairy-lit party wall, a milestone number in gold balloons, a cake with candles — describe it and steer the shoot instead of guessing.
The credit estimate appears up front, and a failed generation is never charged, so a second look is free to try.
It is a tool that restyles one ordinary selfie into the kind of glamorous birthday portrait you would normally book a studio and a stylist for — the sequin dress, the gold number balloons, the fairy lights, the cake glowing with candles, the soft party bokeh behind you. Instead of hiring a photographer and dressing a set for a single evening, you upload a clear picture, describe the look you want, and the model builds the whole scene while keeping your face and expression recognizable. The point of starting from your own photo is that the result still reads as you, not a stranger who happens to share your outfit.
On Kavel the tool runs on the Nano Banana image model through the KIE runtime, so a finished party portrait comes back in one generation rather than an afternoon of set dressing and retouching. You start from your uploaded selfie — the flow defaults to image-to-image — set the format and the resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you commit; a failed run is never charged, so trying a second scene costs nothing but time. It suits someone marking a milestone, a creator making birthday content for the feed, or anyone who wants a striking portrait without booking a real shoot.
And because the same studio also changes hair, swaps outfits, and handles other photo edits, one workflow covers a range of looks without a new tool for each. Think of it less as a filter and more as a photographer and set designer on call — with the direction in your hands, and your own face in the frame.
Upload one clear selfie and the model reads your face, then rebuilds the shot as a full glamorous party portrait around it.
Describe the scene you want — a studio set, gold balloons, a milestone number, a candlelit cake — and the shoot follows that brief.
Set the format, check the credit estimate, and generate; a run that fails costs you nothing, so a second look is free to try. It dresses the whole frame, not just the person. If you only want new clothes in a photo you already like, the outfit generator and the clothes swap stop there.
Creative engine
Upload a selfie, describe the scene, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
A real edit made on Kavel with the same model this tool uses. Drag the divider to compare the plain selfie with the finished portrait. Every output is AI-generated, so your picture varies with your photo, your prompt, and the scene you describe — treat this as a preview of what the tool can do, not a fixed result.


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From one plain selfie to a party-ready portrait, with the cost shown before you commit.
Add one clear picture with your face visible and evenly lit. A sharp, front-facing shot gives the model the most to dress up and the best chance of holding your likeness.
Set the look: a sequin dress, gold number balloons for the age, fairy lights, a cake with candles, a glamorous studio backdrop. Specific direction keeps the shot on-brief instead of generic.
Confirm the estimate, generate the portrait, and download it to share or print. If a run fails, it is free, so you can adjust the prompt and try another scene.
Different people, the same photo edit, one simple workflow.
Turn a plain selfie into a glamorous 21st, 30th, or 50th portrait with the number in gold balloons — no studio to book and no outfit to buy.
Make a scroll-stopping party portrait for the feed in minutes rather than booking a shoot weeks ahead and waiting on edited files.
Build a portrait of someone you love from a favourite photo, ready to print, frame, or send as a surprise on the day.
Common questions about turning a selfie into a glamorous party portrait with Kavel.
The clothes and the room. You end up in a party dress beside gold balloons, fairy lights, and a candlelit cake — while your face and expression carry over from the plain selfie you started with. Nothing about your identity is invented; it is restaged, not replaced.
Free credits arrive with the account, and a failed run is never charged. Beyond that, the cost depends on the resolution and how many shots you generate, and the estimate is on screen before you press the button, so there is no surprise afterwards. Because a run that fails costs nothing, you can keep adjusting the outfit, the balloons, or the lighting until the party portrait looks right, without watching a meter tick up on every attempt.
A sharp, front-facing shot with your face evenly lit. Everything else — the dress, the balloons, the cake — is being built around you, so the face is the only part that has to survive intact. A dim or blurry original gives the model less to hold onto.
Yes. Describe the milestone and the look — a gold number for the age, a colour theme, a studio or a party wall — and the shoot follows that brief. A clearer, more specific prompt gives a closer result than a vague one, so it helps to name the dress, the backdrop, and the mood rather than leaving them to chance. If the first pass is close but not quite there, adjust one detail at a time and generate again.
Yes. Generate at a higher resolution before downloading if it is going to a printer — a 1K file will look fine on a phone but will not survive being printed at portrait size. For a framed gift or a card, pick the largest resolution the estimate offers, then download the file and send it to your printer as usual; the higher the resolution, the more detail holds up at scale.
That is the whole reason for starting from your own photo — the model keeps your face and expression while it restyles the outfit and the scene. A clear, well-lit selfie holds the likeness best; a dark or low-resolution one gives it less to work from, so the closer the input, the closer the result.
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
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One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
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Use one balance across the supported image and video models (Nano Banana 2 / Nano Banana Pro / Seedance 2 / Veo 3.1), and check the credit cost before each request.
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Model credit guide
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. Mini is cheaper still. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video (Lite). About 34 credits at 1080p, about 23 at 720p. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. About 8 credits per image. Start here to test. |
Upload a selfie, describe the scene, check the credits, and a glamorous party portrait comes back in one pass.