Upload a photo of your living room, tree, porch or family and Santa appears in it, leaving gifts, sneaking a cookie or posing beside you.
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Empty room by the tree, lights on; hide name stockings and family photos.
Photo settings
No prompt needed. Upload photos of your own home, and only people who agreed to be in them; celebrity photos and film stills aren't allowed.
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Turn your photo into a Christmas card
Try itAdding Santa to a photo puts a realistic Santa Claus into a picture you already took and matches him to its light, shadows and perspective, so he looks photographed there. He is the only change: the room, the decorations and everyone in the photo stay as they were. Drag each slider to compare.
Empty room · Fireplace
A photo of the quiet room is enough: Santa is placed at the scale and light of the scene, so the picture reads as your own house on Christmas Eve. By the tree, Cookie break, Photobomb, Fireplace and Night cam all start from this kind of photo; here he has just come down the chimney with his sack.
Want it as a video? See Santa Caught on Camera AI
Family photo · Photo with Santa
Pick Photo with Santa and he joins the people in your picture as if posing with them, standing at their side with his hands on his belt. Faces, pajamas and even the dog stay as photographed, so it still looks like your Christmas morning.
Pet photo · Cookie break
Pets keep their fur, pose and expression, so a dog waiting by the cookie plate becomes the moment Santa got there first. Any scene works with a cat or dog in the frame.
Most are made on Christmas Eve and shared the next morning. Four ways families use them.
Photograph the quiet room once the kids are asleep, add Santa, and have the picture ready on a phone or printed by the tree when they come down.
Try: By the tree, beside the presents that are really there in the morning
No queue, no booking and no planning naps around a mall visit: Santa simply stands beside your family in your own living room.
Try: Photo with Santa, everyone still in pajamas
Pick the highest resolution before you generate if it's going on a printed card, or upload the result to the Christmas Card template for a finished design around it.
Try: Doorstep, with Santa waving by your front door
Shoot the same corner each Christmas Eve and pick a different scene, and the photos become a series the kids look forward to.
Try: Cookie break one year, Fireplace the next
One photo sets the scene and Santa is fitted to its floor, light and camera angle, so how you take the photo matters most.
PhotoYour photo
Becomes the scene Santa is added to: a room, a porch or the house front, with or without people and pets in it.
Works well
An empty room with the tree, fireplace or table in view
A porch or house front shot at eye level
Family, kids and pets can stay in the pictureLeave out
Name stockings, family photos and school things in view
A readable house number
Dark, blurry or small photos (under 512 px on the short side)Upload and pick a scene
Add your photo and tap the scene you want Santa in.
Generate
The Generate button shows the exact credits before anything runs.
Download or animate it
Save the photo, or tap Animate it to make a short video from it, with Santa waving or snow falling.
Each photo costs credits, and new accounts get 10 free credits at sign-up: a Santa photo is 3 credits at 1K, 4 at 2K or 5 at 4K. The Generate button shows the exact price before anything runs.
No. In Photo with Santa he stands or sits beside the people in your picture with his hands on his belt or knees; he never holds, hugs or touches a child, and there are no lap photos. Children keep their real age and face.
Yes, as a family keepsake rather than proof of anything: when you post it publicly, label it as AI-generated, which social platforms ask for on realistic AI images.
Yes, in a video: tap Animate it on your result and the photo opens in the Animate Christmas Photo template, where a 5-second clip, such as Santa waving, costs 60 credits at the default settings. For a video of Santa arriving in an empty room, use the Santa Caught on Camera AI template instead.
No. Every scene uses the classic storybook Santa: full white beard, round glasses, red velvet suit with white fur, black belt and boots. Santas from films, ads and brands aren't offered, and there is no prompt box to restyle him. To dress up as Santa yourself, use the Make Me Santa template.
No. Results contain no text, and Santa doesn't hold signs or letters. For words on the picture, the Christmas Card template puts your photo on a card with a fixed greeting.
Usually because the photo leaves him no believable spot: a tight close-up, a very dark room or a floor full of furniture makes him too big, too small or lit wrongly. Retake the room wider with the lights on (see the photo checklist), or pick a scene that suits the frame, such as Photobomb for a doorway.
Upload a room, porch or family photo and choose where Santa shows up.
