AI Birthday Card: One Photo In, One Printable Card Out

An AI birthday card is a generated greeting image built around a photograph you supply. You upload one picture, describe the scene in a sentence or two, choose a ratio and a style, and receive a composed artwork with your people in it. The greeting itself belongs in a typography layer above the image rather than inside it.

Models invent letters when they draw them. A name can lose a character, gain a decorative curl across the middle, or arrive misspelled on the fourth render of the same prompt, and a wrong age number is worse than none. Render the artwork without words, then add the greeting with real type either in the tool or after download.

Choose 3:4 for a folded 5x7, which is the size most stationery racks and envelopes are built around, and it converts to about 1500 x 2100 pixels at 300 DPI. Pick 1:1 around 1800 x 1800 pixels for a square, and 2:3 near 1650 x 2550 pixels for a larger printed panel. Add roughly 38 pixels of bleed on every edge.

Only people shown in the single photo you upload. There is no assembly across several files, so everyone who should appear needs to be in that one frame, reasonably close to the lens and lit evenly. A wide shot where each person occupies a few hundred pixels will not preserve much resemblance.

A sharp, front-facing picture with even daylight on the face and nobody blinking beats a professional stylised portrait with dramatic shadow. Avoid heavy filters, strong backlight and busy pattern behind the subject, since every extra edge gives the composition more places to drift. Crop closely around whoever matters before uploading.

Yes, and pet birthdays are among the popular uses. Use a well-lit picture of the animal facing the lens with its markings visible, keep the motifs simple, and add party elements rather than human clothing, since asking for a dog in a tailored suit invites distortion around limbs and collars.

Yes, when it prints at 300 DPI with bleed included and you have ordered one proof first. Export PNG or PDF for the printer and keep a JPG for messaging. A 72 DPI web file looks fine on a phone and blurry on paper, which is the single most common disappointment senders report.

Keep characters you do not own off the card entirely. Cartoon figures from films and series are protected works, and some seasonal mascots are trademarked, so describe the mood in generic terms instead. Names and short greetings themselves are not copyrightable, though a catchy phrase can still be someone's registered mark.

Use pictures of yourself, or ones you took, or ones the other person sent you for this purpose. A stranger's face pulled off a social feed is not a fair use of the tool, and several platforms ask for a disclosure label when realistic imagery shows someone doing something they never did. Consent takes one message and avoids the awkward follow-up.

A template swaps your name into a layout thousands of others have used, which recipients notice. Starting from your own photograph and your own sentence gives a result nobody else has, even when both cards share a style. The trade is effort: ten minutes of choices instead of one click, and one proof print before you commit.