Say Hello to Meta Filters: The Fastest Way to Turn Photos into Art with Just a Prompt

June 13, 2025

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Discover how to turn any photo into a stunning, AI-generated product with Customily’s new Meta Filters. From Pixar-style portraits to watercolor pet art, explore creative prompt ideas to ride the next trend wave.

In today’s world, trends move at the speed of light — and now, so can your store.

🎉 Introducing Metafilters, Customily’s brand new AI powered feature that lets you create stunning, customized photo filters with nothing more than a written prompt.

Whether it’s a nostalgic look, a fantasy twist, or a viral visual style, just type it and your customers will see it instantly.

🎨 What Are Metafilters?

Metafilters let you apply AI generated filters to customer uploaded photos, directly within your product customization flow.

Here’s how it works:

  1. 🖼️ Add an image upload field to your product
  2. ✍️ Type in the style of filter you want (for example “Pixar style cartoon” or “vintage black and white” or “cyberpunk portrait”)
Laptop showing a personalized photo editor with a wedding portrait and text customization

That’s it. Your filter is generated and ready to go live in your store.

💡 No coding. No manual editing. Just one prompt and your vision becomes reality.

🛍️ Customers upload a photo and instantly see it transformed using the exact filter you imagined.

👉 Watch how it works in this short video

⚡ Why Trends Matter (and Why You Need to Move Fast)

In a fast paced market, timing is everything. Visual trends, pop culture aesthetics, and viral styles rise and fall quickly, and Metafilters help you ride the wave while it’s still rising.

You don’t need to wait weeks to design a product. With Metafilters, you can react instantly and turn creative ideas into sellable products the same day.

🚀 The faster you launch, the more you sell.

Metafilters help you:

  • Capitalize on viral trends instantly
  • Turn creative prompts into personalized products
  • Offer a fun and interactive shopping experience
  • Boost conversions with real time photo previews

💡 Prompt Ideas to Inspire Your Next Product

Here are just a few ways you can get creative using simple text prompts:

🐾 Pet Lovers

“oil painting of a royal dog in renaissance style”

Personalized pillow featuring a dog portrait in a royal costume, styled as a framed painting

“Make this image look like a soft watercolor painting, with gentle brush strokes and pastel tones on textured paper”

Smiling woman holding a personalized blanket printed with a realistic portrait of a calico cat

🎨 Art Styles

“Make this image look like a soft watercolor painting, with gentle brush strokes and pastel tones on textured paper”

Personalized tote bag featuring a photo of a smiling couple and the text ‘The Best Day of Our Lives

“Turn it into a into a colored pencil sketch with soft shading, fine detail and vibrant colors”

Framed pastel-style portrait of two young boys smiling and playing on a bed, with the caption

“Black and white line drawing with fine details, light shadows, and a soft sketchbook texture”

Personalized photo book titled ‘The Story Of Us’ with a pencil sketch cover of a couple embracing, labeled with the names Richard and Lily

😂 Fun and Novelty

“Transform this image into Ghibli style. The color palette is muted and harmonious, with soft pastels and subtle shading.”

Person wearing custom anime sweatshirt with headphones and game controller

“Make this photo look like a scene from The Simpsons. Keep the same people and their poses, but transform the illustration style: yellow-toned skin, black outlines, cartoon eyes, and a flat colorful background”

Person holding a custom mug with cartoon family portrait inside a TV and ‘Smith Family’ text

“Turn this photo into LEGO characters, keeping the same people and poses in LEGO minifigure style"

Personalized wall art in a kids’ room featuring two LEGO-style characters hugging with the text ‘Mia & Liam’s Room

“Classic manga style with black ink lines, dramatic shading, and halftone background”

Not happy with the result? Just tweak your prompt and try again! “Transform this photo into a colorful anime-style scene, with large expressive eyes, glowing skin tones, vivid hair colors, and a bright illustrated background”

Orange tumbler with a colorful anime-style illustration of a cheerful couple in a piggyback pose, framed by an energetic comic-style burst design

“Convert this photo into a modern cartoon-style illustration with bold outlines, soft 3D shading, playful expressions, and a bright and cheerful background like a scene from a family animation show”

Lavender blanket featuring a cartoon-style family portrait framed in blue, with “THOMAS FAMILY” written below in bold black letters

“Pixar-style animated portrait with 3D shading, expressive eyes, and soft lighting”

Woman wearing a white t-shirt printed with a cartoon-style family portrait labeled “Disney 2024” featuring three smiling characters with sunglasses

🌈 Lifestyle and Aesthetics

“Boho style with warm earthy tones”

Kids sitting on grass, before and after with a boho vintage style

🎯 Pro tip: Try different prompts based on your niche, brand style, or whatever is trending right now.

🏁 Final Thoughts

Metafilters make it incredibly easy to stay relevant, creative, and profitable.

You don’t need to guess what’s next. Just watch what’s trending, write your prompt, and launch while the wave is still high

🛍️ Your store. Your style. Your trend.

🔥 Let’s make it viral and fast.

Happy Customizing 💫

Custom photo filters from just one prompt. Your creativity, AI-powered. 🎨
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Josefina Moring

Josefina is a Marketing Strategist & Glitter Enthusiast at Customily. She infuses everything with sparkle and flair, blending her love for voguing, travel adventures, and all things glitter into compelling narratives that resonate with merchants across the world.

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