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I05 — Your pet as an old-master portrait: print, post, wallpaper and sticker

Cocoa is a chocolate Labrador photographed in the garden, looking up at someone holding a treat. Her family wants a portrait for the hallway — the kind that hangs in old houses, oil on canvas, a noble in lace — and something to post and keep on the phone. It should be her, not a Labrador: her eyes, her ears, her grin.

This example paints her that way from the photo, borrowing the style of a real seventeenth-century portrait, and delivers everything ready to use: a print file sized and coloured for the printer, a framed post, a wallpaper, a sticker.

The workflow in three stages, with the reference run. 1, a pet photo, a painting and a name: the dog’s photo in the garden; a painting for the style, Velázquez, 1650; the name and title, Cocoa, Duke of the Garden. 2, the portrait: the dog alone with Remove Background, 1 credit; painted as a noble with Image Transform, the dog kept and the style borrowed, 5 credits; large enough to print with Topaz × 4, 5 credits. 3, four things to keep: a 30 × 40 cm print with plaque, CMYK, 300 dpi; a framed square post with the plaque set after the crop; a wallpaper and a sticker of the real dog — 11 credits in all.

The exact graph is the workflow (as a diagram).

The case

Section titled “The case”
Input Who provides it Reference run
Pet Photo the family the Labrador in the garden, looking up, 1920 × 1280
Style Painting the studio Velázquez, Juan de Pareja, 1650
Pet Name the family Cocoa
Noble Title the family Duke of the Garden

What it shows

Section titled “What it shows”
  • The pet alone, then painted. Remove Background leaves only the dog, so the painting step does not inherit the garden or the people at its edge. Image Transform gets two pictures: the dog, to keep exactly — breed, coat, markings, eyes, ears, expression — and the painting, for its style only: “none of its person”.
  • Big enough for a wall. The model paints at about 900 × 1200; Topaz enlarges it four times for one flat price, so the 30 × 40 cm print at 300 dpi needs no further stretching (AI edits).
  • Ready for the printer. The print is cut to 3543 × 4724 pixels, gets a gold plaque with the name set by Text on Image, is converted to CMYK with Color Profile and saved as a JPEG at quality 95: a file a print shop accepts as it is.
  • Each channel its own cut. The square post is cropped first, then the plaque is set and the gilded frame drawn with two Border steps; the wallpaper is a 9:16 crop. Text is always set after the crop, so nothing is ever cut.
  • The real dog, too. The cut-out is trimmed, sized to 800 px and given a soft white edge and a shadow with two Drop Shadow steps — a sticker for chats, at no cost.

The workflow, step by step

Section titled “The workflow, step by step”
Phase Steps What they do here
A — portrait A1 The Pet Alone, A2 Painted as a Noble Portrait, A3 Four Times Larger for Print BiRefNet; Image Transform on Nano Banana 2 Edit with the cut-out and the painting, 3:4; Topaz × 4 in illustration mode
B — plaque B1 Write the Plaque Text Template: [name], [title]
C — print C1 30 × 40 cm at 300 dpi, C2 Plaque on the Print, C3 CMYK for the Printer, C4 Print JPEG Resize fill to 3543 × 4724; the plaque; CMYK, perceptual; JPEG 95
D — post D1 Square for Social, D2 Plaque on the Post, D3 Gilded Frame, D4 Dark Edge Resize for Platform; the plaque; a 36 px gold and a 10 px dark border
E — keep E1 Phone Wallpaper, E2 Trim the Pet, E3 Sticker 800 px, E4 White Outline, E5 Soft Shadow 9:16; Auto Crop with a margin; Resize fit; a white shadow with no offset, then a soft grey one

The reference run

Section titled “The reference run”

Top: the photo of the chocolate Labrador in a garden, looking up with its mouth open; the Velázquez portrait of a man in a white lace collar on a dark ground; the portrait the workflow painted — the same dog, the same upward look and grin, in a lace collar and dark velvet doublet with an embroidered sash, on a dark warm ground with craquelure. Bottom: the square post with “Cocoa, Duke of the Garden” on a gold plaque, inside a gilded frame; the 9 wallpaper; the sticker, the real dog cut out with a soft white edge and a shadow.

Output Result
portrait 896 × 1200, the painting as the model made it
print_file 3543 × 4724, CMYK JPEG, with the plaque — preview
social_post 1172 × 1172: a 1080 square plus the frame
phone_wallpaper 1080 × 1920
sticker 864 × 721 PNG with transparency

11 credits: 1 for the cut-out, 5 for the painting, 5 for Topaz; the print, the post, the wallpaper and the sticker cost nothing.

Adapt it

Section titled “Adapt it”
  • Any pet, any era. Change the painting: a Dutch still life, a Japanese print, a Renaissance profile — the prompt asks for the style of “the second image”, whatever it is. Use paintings in the public domain, or your own.
  • A service. Put the workflow behind an app form — photo, name, title, a choice of three paintings — and a print shop receives files ready for the press (Apps).
  • Other sizes. A4, 50 × 70 cm: change the pixels of C1 (centimetres × 300 ÷ 2.54); Topaz × 4 covers up to about 4800 pixels on the long side.
  • People? Only with their consent: a portrait of a real person changes their likeness, and many platforms and laws protect it.

Install it

Section titled “Install it”
Terminal window
node madoo-install-example.mjs i05-pet-portrait --api <your Madoo API URL> --key <key.json> --run --save portrait

Photo: “Portrait of a labrador retriever”, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Painting: Diego Velázquez, “Juan de Pareja”, 1650 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Open Access, public domain). The dog’s name and title are invented; the portrait was made by Nano Banana 2, for this example.