A palm-sized Harry Potter appears?

This Halloween, celebrate with your baby!

This time Louis turned into a wizard. Round glasses, a pointed hat, and he even came out with a wand in his mouth. Copy the prompt and try it with a photo of your own baby.

What we are making

A quiet residential road on an overcast autumn day, with a palm-sized wizard sitting by the white edge line: a black pointed hat, round wire-frame glasses, a crimson and yellow striped knit scarf with a small crest patch, and a wooden wand in the mouth. Behind are a road with fallen leaves, blurry street trees and parked cars far away.

The fun of this prompt comes from the size gap and the old-phone look.

• The painted line is as wide as your baby’s whole body, and the curb is taller than their head. With everything around kept at real size, your baby really looks palm-sized.
• It looks like a 2017 iPhone 8 shot: a little dark, a sky blown out to white, a smeared background. It isn’t too clean, so it looks like it was really taken on the street.

Three steps

Step 1. Upload one photo

Upload a photo of your pet to a YouViCo project. A clear face and fur color are enough. A sheet with several angles makes the likeness even closer.

Step 2. Choose Image in New file ▸ AI

Click New file, then the AI tab. Set Output format to Image, pick a model from the list, and add the photo under References.

Step 3. Change three spots in the prompt and generate

Before pasting the prompt below, change three spots to match your baby.

• Louis, a Pomeranian from @LouisSheet → your pet’s name, breed and the name of the photo you added as a reference
• cream fur color and fur looks natural golden cream → the real fur color
• Pomeranian puppy, about 20 cm tall … about 2 kg in the scale paragraph and Real Pomeranian anatomy in the last paragraph → your pet’s breed and real size

For a cat or a bigger dog, be sure to change the size numbers. Left as is, your pet shrinks to a Pomeranian’s build.

Photorealistic candid snapshot, vertical 3:4 (1536x2048), save as PNG. The reference image is Louis, a Pomeranian from @LouisSheet: keep his exact face, cream fur color, eyes, ears and proportions from the reference.

Louis wears a tiny wizard costume: a black pointed wizard hat tilted on his head with fur sticking out around it, round black wire-frame glasses sitting on his muzzle, a crimson and yellow striped knit scarf with a small crest patch wrapped loosely around his neck with natural wrinkles, and a wooden wand held in his mouth. All pieces are real pet gear sitting on top of his fur, tiny doll-sized versions that fit his small body.

Real-life scale is critical: Louis is a tiny baby Pomeranian puppy, about 20 cm tall when standing on his hind legs and about 2 kg, small enough to sit in two cupped human hands. Everything around him keeps its true real-world size, so he looks very small in the scene. His outfit and gear are tiny custom-made doll-sized versions that fit his small body. Never enlarge him to child or human size.

Scene: daytime, a quiet asphalt road in a residential neighborhood, shot from a low angle slightly above his eye level with lots of empty space around him. He sits upright on the asphalt just beside the painted white edge line, looking at the camera. The painted line is as wide as his whole body, the curb beside him is taller than his head, and the road stretches far behind him with a few fallen autumn leaves on the asphalt. Far in the background, a row of parked cars and autumn trees, softly out of focus; no moving cars or people near him. Expression: nearly blank, calm, wand in his mouth. Real contact shadow under him and slightly pressed fur on the ground.

Shot on an old iPhone 8, unedited camera roll photo from 2017. Slightly underexposed, dense rich colors, deep natural saturation, punchy mid-tone contrast, shadows falling into deep soft darkness, no lifted shadows. Neutral daylight under a thin overcast sky, whites stay creamy off-white, fur looks natural golden cream, no heavy yellow or orange color cast. Limited dynamic range with no HDR: the bright sky is blown out to plain white with no visible detail. Very subtle natural light falloff toward the corners, barely noticeable, no strong vignette. Subject softly sharp, background soft and blurry with smeared bokeh. Visible smartphone noise in darker areas, slight JPEG compression, slightly soft lens. Not bright, not airy, not crisp, not clean, no HDR, no oversharpening, no modern iPhone processing. Real Pomeranian anatomy with short legs, round body and small paws, not a mascot costume, not a big head on a small body. Fluffy, fine, slightly messy individual fur strands, realistic texture, not smooth or plastic. No text overlay, no captions, no watermark, no readable signs. 3:4 vertical.

Tips before you run it

• Don’t delete the scale paragraph. Without “small enough to sit in two cupped human hands” and “everything around him keeps its true real-world size”, your baby grows and the palm-sized wizard feel is gone.
• Keep the old-phone paragraph too. Without it the result looks like a slick ad photo. A blown-out white sky and a smeared background are what make it look like a real street shot.
• Generate three or four and pick one. The glasses, the wand angle and how the scarf wraps change every run. The one holding the wand straight across is the cutest.
• The glasses sometimes go missing. Like the cat example, it can come out without them. If you need them, generate again.
• The Harry Potter look belongs to its rights holder. Designs like the crest on the crimson and yellow scarf are trademarks of the Harry Potter series. Keep it to fun on your personal social media and don’t use it for ads or products. If the crest bothers you, delete with a small crest patch.

FAQ

Does it work for cats?

Yes. The gray cat above was made with the same prompt. Change the breed and name in the first paragraph, the height and weight in the scale paragraph, and the anatomy sentence in the last paragraph to fit a cat.

Can I use other house colors?

Yes. Change crimson and yellow in the scarf sentence to something like green and silver, blue and bronze or yellow and black.

Can I make it a night scene?

Yes. Change daytime in the scene paragraph and the sky and daylight sentences in the last paragraph to night. For a nighttime Halloween street shot, see the Chucky with a knife prompt too.