One photo in · A cinematic one-sheet out · Free to start
The hero pose, the dramatic light, the storm-lit city and the title treatment. It is a cinematic one-sheet with you as the lead, from one photo.
A real one-sheet, generated by the model behind this page. Drag the divider to compare the plain studio portrait with the finished key art. Your photo, your prompt and the genre you name shape a one-sheet of your own — this real before-and-after shows what the tool can do, not a fixed result.


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The low-angle hero stance, the hard rim light, the rain-soaked neon street, the teal-and-orange grade, the title treatment burned across the lower third — the kind of theatrical one-sheet a studio would commission from a key-art agency, built from one ordinary photo.
Instead of hiring a photographer, a retoucher and a designer for a single image, you upload a clear picture, name the genre you want, and the model builds the whole composition while keeping your face and expression recognisable. On Kavel it runs on the Nano Banana image model, so a finished one-sheet comes back in one generation rather than an afternoon of compositing and type-setting.
You start from your uploaded picture — the flow defaults to image-to-image — then set the format, check the credit estimate and generate. A failed run is refunded unless it broke the content policy, and the daily free credits are there for trying a second genre.
Creative engine
Upload a photo, name the genre, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.

Upload one clear photo and the model reads your face, then rebuilds the shot as a full theatrical one-sheet around it — lighting, background, title block and all — rather than dropping your head onto a template.

Name the genre and the mood — neon thriller, epic drama, horror, indie — and the key art follows that brief. The genre is doing more work than any other word in the prompt, because it decides the palette, the type and the pose at once.
Set the format, check the credit estimate, and generate; a failed run is refunded (unless it broke the content policy), and the estimate updates with the format so nothing is charged blind. A movie poster is the loudest way to print a face. The Polaroid is the quietest, and the 90s yearbook portrait sits between the two.
From one plain photo to finished key art, with the cost shown before you commit.
Add one clear picture with your face visible and evenly lit. A sharp, front-facing shot with room around your shoulders gives the model the most to build a composition from and the best chance of holding your likeness.

Set the brief: a neon-noir thriller in the rain, a sun-bleached western, a cold sci-fi epic, a title treatment across the bottom. Specific direction keeps the key art on-genre instead of generic.
Confirm the estimate, generate the artwork, and download it to share or print. A poster that fails to render comes back refunded, unless the content policy stopped it.

Film-school projects, gag gifts, launch posts that want a title treatment.

Turn a colleague's photo into a leaving-gift one-sheet, or a friend's into a birthday print — the kind of joke that lands because the face is unmistakably theirs.

Build a scroll-stopping banner or profile image in minutes rather than briefing a designer and waiting on rounds of key art.
Give a band, a club, or a launch its own theatrical artwork — same treatment for every member, generated from the photos you already have.
Common questions about casting yourself in cinematic key art with Kavel.
The staging and the styling. You end up in a hero pose under hard rim light, with a dramatic background, a cinematic grade, and a title treatment across the lower third — while your face and expression carry over from the photo you started with. Nothing about your identity is invented; it is restaged, not replaced.
No, and that is deliberate. The model invents a fictional title and a placeholder billing block so the result is original key art built around you, rather than a copy of an existing film. If you want a specific title on it, name that title in your prompt and it will be set into the artwork instead. For the cleanest lettering, keep the title short and name it exactly in your prompt.
A sharp, front-facing shot with your face evenly lit and a little space around your shoulders. Everything else — the pose, the light, the city behind you — 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 it and the artwork follows — a neon thriller in the rain, a cold sci-fi epic, a warm indie drama, a horror one-sheet with a single light source. A clearer, more specific brief gives a closer result than a vague one, so it helps to name the mood, the palette, and the setting 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.
It depends on the resolution you pick and how many versions you generate, and the estimate is on screen before you press the button, so there is no surprise afterwards. Free credits arrive with the account, and a failed run is refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy). The estimate is on screen before every run, and the daily free credits are what let you work through thriller, epic and horror before settling on one.
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 one-sheet size. For a framed gift, 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 the title type and the fine detail hold up at scale.
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
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Name a genre and the one-sheet builds itself around your face — lighting, title treatment and all. Swap the genre and the whole poster re-shoots.