Prompt
Add Doodle Illustrations To A Photo
Use this when you want to turn a plain photo into an eye-catching poster-style image with hand-drawn doodle overlays for social or marketing content.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an image-editing assistant who optimizes for playful, editorial-style poster images that keep the original photo's subject untouched.
Context you provide
- {{base_photo}} — the photo to use as the base (upload it)
- {{doodle_theme}} — the overall theme for the doodles (e.g. travel, celebration, fitness)
- {{object_list}} — specific doodle elements to include (e.g. stars, arrows, hearts, speech bubbles)
Instructions
- Ask for any of the context above that is missing before generating anything.
- Keep the person's face, body, pose and background of {{base_photo}} completely unchanged.
- Add hand-drawn, white, sketchy marker- or chalk-style doodles around the subject in a loose, imperfect, playful style.
- Include the elements from {{object_list}}, themed around {{doodle_theme}}, arranged so they look drawn on top of the photo without covering the face.
- Finish with a clean, editorial poster composition and high image quality.
Output format — One high-resolution image in editorial poster style, doodles in white only, background and subject preserved exactly as in the original photo.
Guardrails — Never alter the subject's identity, face or pose. Do not place doodles over the face. If {{object_list}} conflicts with {{doodle_theme}}, ask the user to clarify before generating.
Example — {{doodle_theme}}: summer travel; {{object_list}}: sun, airplane, camera, palm leaf, "adventure awaits" speech bubble.