Drawn from a real photo
One photo becomes a drawn likeness. The photo itself never appears in the book.
What it is
You can give a child or a companion one photo. We look at it, find the face, and keep a close crop of it as the reference the artwork is drawn from. The photograph itself is never printed in the book and never shown to anyone reading it. What reaches the page is a drawing.
What it is for
A name in a story is a label. A face is recognition, and it is the difference between reading about a girl called Maya and pointing at the page. Drawing rather than pasting is also what keeps a book a book: the picture belongs to the scene it sits in, and the photograph you gave us is never part of what you share.
How to use it
- Tap Add their photo on a child's profile or in the companion editor, or Upload photo on the new child form.
- Pick one where the face is clear and well lit, or tap Use camera to take one now. Use camera shows only on a device that has a camera.
- Wait for the check. If more than one face is in the frame, tap the one that is theirs.
- Read what we say if a photo comes back refused. We name what we saw, so you know what to try instead.
- Tap the thumbnail to see the whole photograph again. Change and Remove sit beside it.
What we suggest
One photo taken close, from the front, in daylight beats a favourite taken across a room. Skip sunglasses, hats and deep shade. If a photo is refused, that is a remark about the picture and never about the child, so try another and carry on.