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TL;DR
- ChatGPT is working on an Image Styles feature that would add a pre-defined instruction set to your prompt to achieve a specific image style in your results.
- Users would be able to select from aesthetic styles such as “Anime,” “Cyberpunk,” “Coloring Book,” and more.
- These styles can be added as instructions for converting existing images or generating new ones.
ChatGPT’s image generation capabilities are pretty nifty, and it’s largely credited for sparking the viral trend of Studio Ghibli-fying your images. However, given the nature of AI image generation, users must know the right prompt to get the right results, which often isn’t a piece of cake. Many users end up searching for the exact prompt to be used to get a specific style for their generated or converted image. ChatGPT could be looking to simplify this process by introducing Image Styles, allowing users to generate new images or convert existing images according to pre-defined styles from within the app.
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ChatGPT v1.2025.196 beta includes code for generating images following a pre-defined style. Here are what the image styles will be called, and the description and image sample the app provides for them:
- 80s Glam: Turn this photo into a selfie styled like a cheesy 1980s mall glamour shot, foggy soft lighting, teal and magenta lasers in the background, feathered hair, shoulder pads, portrait studio vibes, ironic ‘glam 4 life’ caption.
- Anime: Restyle this image with a detailed anime aesthetic: expressive eyes, smooth cel-shaded coloring, and clean linework. Emphasize emotion and character presence, with a sense of motion or atmosphere typical of anime scenes.
- Art Nouveau: Restyle this image in an Art Nouveau style: flowing lines, organic shapes, floral motifs, and soft, decorative elegance.
- Classic Anime: Restyle this image in a classic 2D anime style with flat cel shading, clear black outlines, and stylized characters—mixing realism with fantasy in a heartfelt, nostalgic tone.
- Coloring Book: Restyle this image in a children’s coloring book style: bold, even black outlines on white, no shading or tone. Simplify textures into playful, easily recognizable shapes.
- Cyberpunk: Restyle this image with a cyberpunk aesthetic: vivid neon accents, futuristic textures, glowing details, and high-contrast lighting.
- Dramatic Headshot: Restyle this photo into a high-contrast black-and-white headshot, close up, black shadow background, 35mm lens, 4K quality, aspect ratio 4:3.
- Photo Shoot: Make a professional photo shoot with soft lighting based on this photo.
- Retro Cartoon: Restyle this photo in a retro 1950s cartoon style, minimal vector art, Art Deco inspired, clean flat colors, geometric shapes, mid-century modern design, elegant silhouettes, UPA style animation, smooth lines, limited color palette (black, red, beige, brown, white), grainy paper texture background, vintage jazz club atmosphere, subtle lighting, slightly exaggerated character proportions, classy and stylish mood.
- Synthwave: Restyle this image with a synthwave aesthetic: retro-futuristic 1980s vibe with neon grids, glowing sunset, vibrant magenta-and-cyan gradients, chrome highlights, and a nostalgic outrun atmosphere.
When the feature goes live, users will be able to upload an image to ChatGPT and select one of these image styles to feed the attached description as instructions. Alternatively, there’s also a text prompt version that creates a fresh image, though you will have to add more directions for the image as the built-in prompt will merely dictate the artistic look and style.
We managed to activate the process flow to give you a better look:
Since this feature will merely append a set of pre-defined instructions to your prompt, you can modify the instructions to build on them and get different results, like different caption text, for example.
Image Styles are not live within ChatGPT currently, nor has OpenAI announced them. We’ll keep you updated when we learn more.
