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Hand-Drawn Photo Doodles

Hand it a photograph and it draws over the top of it — every doodle attached to a thing you named and doing one job to it, the photograph underneath untouched. Three fields.

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ExamplesOne photograph in · one out · every mark on something
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Desk
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Kitchen worktop

We made two examples, from two different photographs: a desk drawn over in white and a kitchen worktop drawn over in charcoal. Both photos hold more things than the fields name, and neither gets a mark anywhere it was not asked for.

Every doodle sits on something you named and does what you asked: three steam curls off the mug, two sparkles at the plant, a short arc either side of the glasses. There are no stray stars or confetti, and the photo underneath is untouched: same crop, same light, same colour. The handwriting is exactly what you typed; leave the third field empty and the picture comes back with no handwriting at all.

Generated for this library

Input
  Draw on     the mug: three steam curls rising · the
              plant: two small sparkles at the leaves ·
              the glasses: a short motion line either side
  Pen         a thin white marker, one weight throughout
  Words       beside the mug still warm · under the
              notebook page 1 again
  Photograph  desk.png (1254 x 940)

Returned   1 image · 4:3 · the photograph, drawn on

photo      untouched - same crop, same light, same
           colour, nothing retouched underneath
marks      three pairs named, three marks drawn - curls
           on the mug, sparkles at the plant, arcs at
           the glasses, nothing floating anywhere
pen        one white line at one weight, flat, no glow
           and no shadow
words      the two given, in their two places - nothing
           the field did not say
covered    nothing - every mark sits beside its thing
SKILL.mdthe whole thing, as you would paste it© vibary.ai

You fill in 3 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.

  1. 1What to draw on, and what each doodle does
  2. 2The pen it is drawn with
  3. 3The words, and where each one goes

Hand-Drawn Photo Doodles

What this makes

Hand it a photograph and it draws over the top of it — every doodle attached to a thing you named and doing one job to it, the photograph underneath untouched. Three fields.

The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.

How to use it

  1. Copy the whole template with the button above.
  2. Attach your photograph and paste the template in the same message.
  3. Replace the three FIELDS lines. In the first, name the thing and then what its doodle does — that pairing is what stops marks floating.
  4. Check that every mark has a thing before shipping, and that nothing you care about in the photograph is covered.
  5. Write the words yourself in the third field, in whatever language you want them. Anything you do not write does not appear.

What you swap

What to draw on, and what each doodle does
the mug: three steam curls rising · the plant: two small sparkles at the leaves · the glasses: a short motion line either side
The pen it is drawn with
a thin white marker, one weight throughout
The words, and where each one goes
beside the mug still warm · under the notebook page 1 again

Before it runs

  • An actual photograph, attached to the message. This draws on a picture, so there has to be a picture.
  • Things worth naming, and space beside them. A doodle needs somewhere to sit that is not on top of the subject, so a frame filled edge to edge leaves nowhere to draw.
  • One job per doodle, decided by you. 'Make it playful' returns marks scattered wherever they fit; 'the mug: three steam curls rising' returns a doodle that belongs to the mug.
  • Your own words, or none. The template will not write anything, which means an empty third field comes back as a picture with no handwriting on it at all.

When to reach for it

When a flat photograph needs to become something you would actually post: a shop's own picture, a card, a story frame. Templates in this genre scatter marks across the frame and then, because they are told to, invent handwriting to go with them — so the picture comes back with a joke in it that nobody wrote.

What changes

  • One photograph in, one out — the photograph itself untouched, with drawing on top of it.
  • Every doodle is attached to a thing you named and does the one job you gave it, so nothing floats.
  • The marks read as marks: one ink, one weight, no shading, no glow, nothing pretending to be part of the photograph.
  • The only handwriting is the handwriting you wrote — the reference template is instructed to invent it, and this one is forbidden to.
  • Nothing underneath is hidden: no doodle crosses a face, a label or the subject's own edge.

Pairs with