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Making a story

Characters, photos and Face Match

How to put your child in the story, keep them looking like themselves on every page, and add siblings or a pet.

Updated Sep 29, 20262 min read

The Who Is This Story About? step is the cast. Choose someone you have already made, or choose Create new.

The Who Is This Story About step: an empty cast with a Create new button, and a note that the story will invent a hero if none is chosen.
With nobody chosen, the story invents a hero and draws their face from our picture library.

Make a character

In the character editor you give a name, an age and a short description. Add a photo if you want the character to look like a real person. A saved character is kept, so you can put them in the next book without starting again.

Face Match

Face Match keeps a real person’s likeness in every illustration. Turn it on when you add a photo. It works for up to two characters in one book, and the counter on the cast step shows how many you have used.

Siblings, friends and pets

Add them as more characters. Each character after the first adds 1 coin to the book, and up to four people can be in the cast. They appear by name and look the same on every page.

Characters the story invents

If the story needs a character you did not add — a shopkeeper, a grandmother, a talking fox — it invents one, and gives them a new face for that book. The review step shows you the whole cast before any page is painted.

Work through it

Start at the top — the checks are ordered by what is most often the cause.

  1. The hero does not look enough like your child

    Add a photo and turn on Face Match when you create the character. The pictures are then built from that face, instead of being imagined fresh for each page.

    Open the create page

  2. The hero changed between pages

    This happens when an outfit or a hair detail is described differently in different places. Editing the character and making the book again is the reliable fix. Re-drawing a single page can drift again.

  3. You do not want to upload a photo

    You do not have to. Describe your child instead — hair, clothes, things they love — and the character will be drawn from that description. It will look like a child of that description, not like a photograph.

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