AI Christmas Card Generator
A knitted sweater, a lit tree, a roaring fire behind you. Skip the booked-out studios and the December stress: the photo you already have becomes a card you send tonight, like the family that planned it months ago.
One photo, a festive card
A real festive card, rendered on this page’s model. Drag the divider to compare the plain portrait with the finished card. Now make the version your people will want to keep.
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What is an AI christmas card generator?
The knitted sweater, the hat, the lit tree, the stockings on the mantel, the snow falling past the window — one ordinary photo restyled into the festive portrait you would print on a greeting card and mail in December.
Instead of wrangling everyone into matching outfits and booking a studio in the busiest month of the year, you upload a clear picture, describe the scene you want, and the model builds it while keeping your face and expression recognisable. Upload the family picture, choose your print size, and the model handles the wardrobe and the set design — a holiday portrait without the December studio markup.
The card is made to be sent, which means it has to read at postcard size and survive being printed.
Creative engine
How the festive card comes together
Upload a photo, describe the scene, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
The whole shot is rebuilt
The model reads your face and rebuilds the frame as a festive greeting-card portrait — backdrop, wardrobe, warm light and depth together, rather than dropping snow over the photograph you already had.
Describe the scene, not the season
Fireside, snowy doorstep, red-and-gold studio, a tree covered in lights. The card follows that brief, so you art-direct your own holiday shoot from the keyboard instead of settling for a stock studio backdrop.
Set the format, check the credit estimate, and generate; a run that fails is refunded, and the cost is visible before you commit. A Christmas card is made to be sent — and once it is in the envelope, the same photo can become a movie poster or a Polaroid for the wall.
Make a festive card in three steps
From one plain photo to a card-ready portrait, with the cost shown before you commit.
Upload your everyday photo
Add one clear picture with the faces visible and evenly lit. A sharp, front-facing shot gives the model the most to dress up.
Describe the scene
Set the look: a knitted sweater, a hat, a tree covered in fairy lights, a fireplace and stockings, snow through the window. Specific direction keeps the card on-brief.
Check credits and generate
Confirm the estimate and generate — the card comes back ready to download, send to the printer or drop straight into the family group chat.
Who turns a photo into a card
Family cards, work greetings, a last-minute post on the day itself.
Families sending cards
Dress everyone in matching knits and set them by a tree without getting a single person to sit still for a real shoot.
Brands & seasonal posts
Turn a team photo into a festive greeting for the feed, made in an afternoon rather than booked in October.
Late planners
Make a card-ready portrait in December when every studio in town is fully booked and the post office is closing in.
Holiday card FAQ
Common questions about turning a photo into a festive greeting card with Kavel.
The clothes and the room. You end up in knitwear beside a lit tree, with a fire, stockings, and snow past the window — while your face and expression carry over from the plain photo you started with.
Free credits arrive with the account, and a failed run is refunded automatically. Beyond that, cost depends on the resolution and how many cards you generate, and the estimate is on screen before you press the button.
A sharp, front-facing shot with the faces evenly lit. Everything else — the sweaters, the tree, the room — is being built around you, so the faces are the only part that has to survive intact.
Yes. Upload a photo with everyone in it and describe the scene — matching knits, a couch by the tree. The more faces in the frame, the more a sharp, evenly lit original matters, because every likeness has to hold.
Yes. Pick a higher resolution before downloading if they are going to a printer, so the faces and the fairy lights stay crisp at card size.
Later than a real shoot, which is rather the point — there is no studio to book and no day to lose. If the cards are going in the post, work back from the last posting date and give your printer their turn.
One purchase, and everything you make here is yours to post
Any plan or pack — even a $19.90 one — unlocks a clean copy of every image you have made here, starts each new run instantly, and refunds one that fails.
- 14,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 1,440 videos
- Up to 2,880 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 54,000 Credits Per Year
- Up to 5,400 videos
- Up to 10,800 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 102,000 Credits Per Year
- Up to 10,200 videos
- Up to 20,400 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
Free plan
- Get 100 credits a week with check-ins
- 20 Free Credits with login
- Up to 2 videos
- Up to 4 images
- No Card, No Account
- Free Images And 4s Videos When Signed In
- Free Engine Every Day
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Other cards and keepsakes to make
The model behind the card, and other ways to restyle a photo.
Turn your photo into a festive card
Send it the same evening you thought of it. Your first cards are free in the browser with no account — choose the scene, pick a higher resolution for print, and the card comes back ready for the printer.