One photo in · The whole booking room built around you · Nothing to install
AI Mugshot Maker
Turn one photo into the booking shot everyone does a double take at — pick the era, write the board, and send the joke with your face in the full room. No sign-up.
One park photo, one mugshot
A real run on Kavel, starting from a warm outdoor portrait. Drag the divider and watch the wall arrive behind him while the face stays put. The hard flash and the booking-room mood snap into place around the same face.
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What is an AI mugshot maker?
It takes one everyday photo — a selfie, a holiday shot, a work headshot — and re-stages it as a police booking photograph. The face is the anchor; the room, the light, the clothing and the pose are rebuilt around it.
Four things carry this look, and people usually get only two of them. The wall behind has to have a real measurement chart with feet and inches at the right scale for the head in frame. The light has to be a flat on-camera flash with no modelling. The colour has to be cold and institutional rather than flattering.
And the expression has to be doing nothing at all. The pass runs on the Nano Banana image model in the browser with free credits to start; the credit estimate updates before you commit, and a failed run is refunded automatically.
Creative engine
How the booking pass works
Upload a head-on photo, say which era and how grim you want it, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
The full booking set
Height chart, hard frontal flash, cold institutional colour and a board with a number — the specific details that make the frame read at a glance. Miss the chart scale and the whole thing collapses, because that is the one element nobody can fake by eye.
Nothing to install
It runs in the browser with free credits: no editing app, no layer masks, no account wall before you see a result. The comparison worth making is against doing this by hand, where the chart alone is twenty minutes of perspective work.
The studio has a whole shelf of pages that drop you into a scene you were never in: the 90s yearbook photos tool, the AI polaroid generator for a print that looks four decades old, or the AI movie poster generator when the crime should look bigger than a misdemeanour.
Make a mugshot in three steps
From one everyday photo to a charge sheet in seconds — ready before the group chat moves on.
Shoot it head-on
Face square to the lens, head and shoulders in frame, even light. That is the geometry a booking camera has, and matching it does half the work.
Set the era and the charge
Ask for a modern digital capture or a grainy 1970s one, pick what the board says, and say whether the shirt should be plain grey or an orange jumpsuit.
Check credits and generate
Generate, then send it. A failed run is refunded unless it broke the content policy, so you only spend credits on the takes that actually come back.
Who makes a mugshot of themselves
The group-chat offence, the themed party, the fan-project charge — turned into the image people pass around.
The group-chat verdict
Somebody did something indefensible in a restaurant. This is the reply, and it is funnier when the height chart is behind their actual face.
The party invite
A bachelor party, a true-crime night, a 30th with a theme. Run every guest through the same prompt and the wall, the light and the shirts match across the whole lineup — a far better invite than a stock template with names typed on it.
Story and cosplay
A character sheet for a tabletop campaign, a fake newspaper spread, a wanted poster for a fan project — anything that needs a face and a charge in the same frame.
Booking photo FAQ
Common questions about turning a normal photo into a booking shot with Kavel.
No. The manual route is a height-chart stock image, a mask around your head, a colour grade to kill the warmth and a text layer for the board — perhaps twenty minutes if you already know the software. This runs in the browser with free credits to start, and the whole scene comes back built.
That is the part the pass protects. Face shape, hair, stubble, eye colour, skin tone and the head-and-shoulders crop are carried across; what changes is the wall, the light, the shirt and the expression. A head-on photo in even light gives it the clearest face to carry into the booking room.
Yes — put it in the prompt. A case number, a date, a fake precinct name, an inside joke. Short strings in blocky characters render most cleanly; a long sentence in a curly typeface is where legibility starts to suffer, so keep it to a line.
Ask for it directly. A colour Polaroid-era capture with heavy grain and a warm cast, a black-and-white plate from the 1950s, or a clean modern digital frame are all one prompt apart, and each is a fresh run that takes seconds.
A head-and-shoulders shot, taken at eye level, square to the camera, in even light, with some space around your head. What hurts: a low angle from below, sunglasses, a hat that hides the hairline, motion blur, and tight crops that leave nowhere for the chart to go.
Making one of yourself for a joke is exactly what this is for. Use your own face or people who are in on it, keep it clearly playful, and never present it as a real official record.
The estimate is on screen before you press generate and moves with the format and resolution you pick, so nothing is charged blind. Failed runs come back refunded unless they broke the content policy, and a new account starts with enough free balance to book yourself in two different decades first.
Yes, one photo at a time, and a set is where this gets good — eight friends against the same wall with sequential numbers on the boards makes a better invite than any single frame. Reuse the same prompt for each person so the wall, the light and the shirt stay consistent across the lineup.
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
- 9,600 Credits Per Year
- Up to 960 videos
- Up to 1,920 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 38,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 3,840 videos
- Up to 7,680 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 86,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 8,640 videos
- Up to 17,280 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
- A Free Video With Every Check-in
- Free Engine Every Day
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Payments are processed by Stripe over an encrypted checkout. Your card details are handled by Stripe and are never stored by Kavel.
Other ways to restage your own photo
Other passes that drop you into a place, a decade or a format you were never in.
Put your own face under the height chart
One photo in, the whole booking room around it — wall, flash, board and all. A new account's free balance books you in two different decades, so make the first one now.