How-to·September 6, 2026, 04:48

How to make AI Christmas images: Three providers' best prompt tips

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AI-generated Christmas images are a seasonal trend on social media, and several tool providers have published guides on how to write the text prompts that steer the images. The guides come from companies that sell or promote AI tools themselves.

Every Christmas they show up in feeds: families in matching sweaters, people inside giant Christmas ornaments and vintage holiday cards that were never photographed. According to tool provider AIPure, AI-generated Christmas images have become a widespread trend on platforms including TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit and YouTube. There are no figures on how widespread the trend is, so that is a claim from AIPure itself.

Three providers have created guides on how to do it yourself. What they have in common is that they sell or promote AI tools, so their assessments are their own.

What is a prompt?

A prompt is the text you write to the AI tool to tell it what the image should show. The better the description, the closer you typically get to what you have in mind.

According to Luma Labs, a good prompt should work like a creative brief. It should include technical requests such as camera, resolution and format, visual elements such as subject, setting, lighting and clothing, an emotional direction and production notes, for example space for text or cropping. Luma also recommends editing an image you are happy with rather than starting over when something needs to be fixed.

Perfect Corp, the company behind the YouCam AI Pro app, advises being specific, specifying the lighting (for example golden hour or candlelight), choosing a style such as oil painting, 3D render or photography, and adding mood with words like cozy or mysterious.

Popular subjects

AIPure mentions candy cane photo shoots with sequin dresses, a reindeer queen with Rudolph, people inside giant Christmas ornaments, vintage holiday cards and family portraits in matching sweaters. Luma Labs has collected 40 prompts, including ones about matching pajamas, ice skating and ugly Christmas sweaters. Perfect Corp's examples include a living room on Christmas Eve, a snow-covered forest with northern lights, a European Christmas market and a reindeer in Pixar style.

Tools and approach

AIPure mentions free or freemium tools such as Nano Banana Pro from Google, ChatGPT Images, Adobe Firefly, VisualGPT and OpenArt. Its guide uses the platform lmarena.ai: select Image and Direct Chat, choose the model gpt-image-1.5, paste the prompt, optionally upload an image and download the result.

Perfect Corp's guide follows the same pattern in YouCam AI Pro: select AI Image and Text to Image, choose the model GPT-Image-1, paste the prompt, generate and download.

AIPure recommends detailed prompts if you want to preserve facial features from an uploaded photo. Model names and versions vary between the guides and have not been independently verified.