Image Filters with AI
AI Restyle: Turn Photos into Art in the Design Tool
The Design Tool now includes AI Restyle — a set of AI-powered artistic styles your customers can apply to their photos while personalizing a product. One click turns an ordinary photo into a watercolor painting, a cartoon, a pencil sketch, and more — opening up a whole new category of personalized products, from pet portraits to caricature mugs to gallery-style wall art.
The styles
Seven artistic styles are available at launch:
Watercolor — soft, painterly washes of color
Pencil Sketch — hand-drawn graphite look
Oil Painting — rich, textured brushwork
Cartoon — bold, playful illustration
Pop Art — vivid, high-contrast graphic style
3D Character — sculpted, animated-film look
Anime — Japanese animation style
How customers use it
In the Design Tool, the customer selects a photo they've placed in their design.
They open the AI tools and choose a style from the Restyle section.
The style is generated and applied immediately — no extra confirmation step, so there's no risk of a chosen style being lost on the way to cart.
The restyled image flows through preview, cart, and production files just like any other image.
Restyle works alongside the editor's existing image tools — customers can still crop, rotate, and adjust their restyled photo as usual.
Usage limits and cost control
AI generations are processed per image, and each site has a daily usage limit to keep costs predictable:
A site-wide default limit applies to all users.
Per-user overrides let you raise (or lower) the limit for specific users.
This means you stay in control: customers get a generous creative allowance, and usage can't run away from you.
Product ideas
Restyle shines on products where the photo is the design:
Watercolor or oil-painting pet portraits on canvas
Cartoon and anime styles on mugs, phone cases, and kids' products
Pencil-sketch couple and family portraits for framing
Pop-art prints as statement wall decor
Because the customer creates the artwork themselves in seconds, these premium-feeling products need no design service behind them.
Enabling AI Restyle on your site
Get in touch and we'll switch them on and help you set an appropriate daily limit for your business. If a self-service toggle now exists in Design Tool Configuration, replace this section with the setting location.
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