A portrait so real people ask who took the photo
Photo Real is the house style and the one most people should start with. It is not an illustration of your pet - it is a photograph of your pet that never happened.
Free preview first · you approve before it prints · printed in the USA
The style samples share one golden retriever wherever they can (the astronaut is a beagle), so you can compare all 10 mediums like for like.
How Photo Real is drawn
The output is a candid outdoor photograph: hyper-real fur texture down to individual guard hairs, warm late-afternoon sun, and a small sunlit halo of woodland close around the head that breaks into dots at its edge instead of stopping at a frame. The sample is a golden retriever grinning on a forest path. Everything that usually gives an AI portrait away - the plastic sheen, the invented symmetry, the too-perfect eyes - is what this style spends its effort avoiding. It is the only style with no artistic medium sitting between your photo and the print.
Which pets it suits
Every coat type, and it is the fairest test of a photo. Because nothing is stylised, the quality of what you upload comes straight through: a sharp, daylight, face-filling photo produces a startling result and a dark blurry one produces a dark blurry portrait. If your dog has subtle markings - a freckled muzzle, one odd eyebrow, a scar - this is the style that keeps them.
Whatever the medium, identity outranks it: the generator is told never to change breed, face shape, coat colour, markings, eye colour or ears. The photo guidelines cover what to upload.
How it prints
Photo Real is the one style offered on dark, mid and light shirts alike, and it is keyed into whichever you choose rather than printed as a rectangle. On a dark shirt, like the sample, the deepest shadows are left as bare fabric and the sunlit fur appears to glow off it, while the woodland around the head thins into a scatter of dots. Black is the strongest version of that; true navy is a softer, cooler night. On a light shirt the portrait is made again for that shirt, so its palest parts become the fabric instead.
Every design prints at a 12-inch chest placement on a 16-colour garment range - the mockups above use the real print box.
Price, shirt and shipping
- $34.99
- The printed shirt with your portrait on it, listed at $49.99. Generating and previewing artwork is free.
- Free US shipping
- Every order, no minimum, US addresses only - typically 7-12 business days with tracking.
- Sizes S-2XL
- A premium shirt - Comfort Colors 1717, a garment-dyed heavyweight tee. Printed to order in the USA; the blank is imported.
- Approve before print
- Three free previews a day, for everyone. Nothing prints and nothing is charged until you say yes.
Custom items are not returnable for change of mind. A damaged, misprinted or wrong order is reprinted free or refunded within 30 days - the FAQ has the details, and the size guide has the measurements.
Photo Real questions
Is it really photorealistic, or just detailed?＋
Photoreal is handled differently from the other nine styles behind the scenes: it does not apply an artistic medium at all, so nothing is pushing the picture toward illustration. Judge it from the free preview rather than from a description.
Will it change how my dog looks?＋
The generator's highest-priority instruction is that the pet stays 100% recognisable - no changing breed, face shape, coat colour, markings, eye colour or ears, and no making them cuter or younger.
Which style should I pick if I want a gift that reads instantly?＋
Photo Real for someone who wants their actual dog; Pop Art or Streetwear if you want the shirt readable from across a room.
Compare another style
Mostly the same dog, a different medium each time - that is the whole point of these samples.
See your own pet in Photo Real
Upload one photo and this style is already chosen for you. The preview is free - decide after you have seen it.
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