Anime Pics Photo Guide
How to generate the best profile pictures using AI
What makes a good photo?
☑ Generally middle chest and up photos taken from different angles
☑ A few full body shots
☑ Photos you find yourself attractive in!!!
☑ Photos that accent your unique facial features
☑ Good lighting
☑ Variety of different shirts
☑ Variety of different backgrounds
☑ Smiling or closed mouth
☑ Either wearing glasses in all photos or no photos
☑ Square 512x512px photo (we have an auto-crop feature that can do this)
Examples below!
What makes a bad photo?
☒ Multiple people in photo (use resource below to crop them out)
☒ Pets in photo
☒ Wearing hats or sunglasses
☒ Face too close to camera!!!
☒ Body too far from camera
☒ Photo too small (use resource to enlarge)
☒ Blurry photo (use resource below to de-blur)
☒ Attire with highly noticeable logos or graphics
☒ Dramatically different facial hair across photos
Examples below!
Resources
Use these sites as needed to modify pictures to fit guidelines:
Good Photo Set 1
This is a photo set that produced good results. All these photos followed the above guideline on what makes a good photo.
These were all taken after scrolling through instagram.
You can see the results these photos created further down below!
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Results Good Photo Set 1
American Animation
Ghibli Animation
Shinkai Animation
Cartoon Animation
Good Photo Set 2
To find suitable photos, browse your Instagram and Facebook accounts. If you don't have enough photos that meet the guidelines, spend 15 minutes taking new photos following this example.
Remember these 5 points when capturing the shots:
1. Frame the subject well
2. Varied camera angles
3. Appropriate facial expression
4. Appropriate and varied clothing
5. Varied background
You can see the results these photos created further down below!
Upper-body shot, straight on, smiling, white shirt
Upper-body shot, right angle side profile, smiling, white shirt
Upper-body shot, left angle side profile, smiling, white shirt
Upper-body shot, straight on, straight face, arms crossed
Selfie shoulder level shot, straight on, smiling, blue shirt
Selfie shoulder level shot, right angle, smiling, blue shirt
Selfie shoulder level shot, smiling, gray jacket
Upper-body shot, outside, straight on, smiling, green shirt
Upper-body shot, outside, straight on, straight face, green shirt
Upper-body shot, outside, left angle side profile, smiling
Upper-body shot, outside, right angle side profile, smiling
Selfie shoulder level shot, straight on, smiling, black jacket
Selfie from higher angle, straight on, smiling, gray jacket
Selfie from higher angle, right angle side profile, smiling, gray jacket
Selfie from higher angle, left angle side profile, smiling, gray jacket
Upper-body shot, straight on, smiling, red shirt
Upper-body shot, left angle side profile, smiling, red shirt
Full body shot, outside, gray shirt
Full body shot, inside, blue shirt
Upper-body shot, outside, red shirt, smiling
Results Good Photo Set 2
American Animation
Ghibli Animation
Shinkai Animation
Cartoon Animation
Bad Photo Set
This is a photo set that produced bad results. Most of these photos followed the above guideline on what makes a bad photo.
Please avoid using photos like these.
You can see the results bad photos created further down below!
Too close to camera (important!)
Another too close to camera
Multiple people in the photo
The model would recognize the pig as another face
Pet in the photo
Glasses when rest of the photos do not have them
Shirt with text/graphic
Fist is main focus (also shirt has graphic)
Too far away from the camera
Too far from camera and bad lighting
Uneven lighting
Wearing a beanie
Wearing a hat
Wearing sunglasses
Too blurry (can be fixed by upscaling)
Results Bad Photo Set
American Animation
Ghibli Animation
Shinkai Animation
Cartoon Animation