Composerie ships sixteen AI styles, and they are not sixteen variations of one idea. They fall into four families that answer different questions about what a shopper’s photo should become. This guide gives you the map, so you can choose two or three to publish rather than switching on everything and paying for the ones nobody picks.
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The four families
Art styles keep the composition and change the medium. A photograph becomes a watercolour of that photograph. They are the safest for a gift, because the result is still clearly the picture that was uploaded.
Illustration styles redraw the subject rather than repainting the image. Expect more change and more character, and check them against a real customer photo before publishing: a face that survives Watercolor may not survive Pixel Art.
Era styles keep the person and move the period. Renaissance Royal, 1980s Yearbook and Wild West are the novelty end of the catalogue and tend to be the ones shoppers try repeatedly, which is worth knowing when you set a per-session limit.
Scenario styles keep the person and move the place. Same caution as Era, same appeal.
What is in the Effects tab
AI style sits under Artistic and is the one that carries the sixteen styles above.
Remove background sits under Smart tools and is the other effect that leaves the canvas to do its work. It is much cheaper per call than a style, and it is the one to reach for when the job is a clean product photo rather than a transformation.
Face cutout and enhance exist in the codebase but are not offered by default. If you have seen them named somewhere and cannot find the tile, that is the reason rather than anything wrong with your account.
Every style keeps the subject
All sixteen are built to preserve the subject rather than to invent a new picture. That is the useful guarantee: a shopper who uploads a photo of their dog gets a stylised version of that dog.
It also sets the expectation you should set on the product page. A style is a transformation of what they gave you, not a generator, and a bad photograph will produce a bad result in any of the sixteen.
Common questions
Can I add my own style?
The sixteen are built in. What you choose is which of them to publish for a product, and how strong the effect runs.
Which styles need a face?
None of them require one. The Era and Scenario families are built around a person, so they read best with one, but nothing enforces it.
Do different styles cost different amounts?
The cost follows the provider and model that runs the call rather than the style itself. Removing a background is the cheap one; any full restyle is not.
Why is there no description under each style name?
The product ships the names rather than descriptions. Run each one on a real photo, which tells you more than a sentence would.
Can a shopper pick the style themselves?
Yes, when you publish more than one. See AI photo effects for shoppers.
Next
Read what AI generation costs before publishing any of them, or when an AI generation fails for what a shopper sees on a bad day.