Make a sticker pack of your own face — from one photo

Here's the idea in one line: you upload a single selfie — and the app hands back eight stickers of you. You laughing, you shocked, you giving a thumbs up, you sad, you thinking. And in all eight it's recognizably you, not eight different people. A finished set — drop it into a chat instead of plain emoji.

Here's what's new. Models drew pictures a year ago too, but there was an annoying snag: ask for the same person twice and you'd get two different people. On the first sticker you've got a round face, on the second — a stranger's nose. For a sticker pack that's fatal: the whole point is that it's one and the same you. On June 2 Microsoft showed off MAI-Image-2.5 — a model that holds the face "through changes in pose, expression or viewpoint." That's what the project rides on.

Why this one

This isn't a four-panel comic where the hero runs through one story. It's a different artifact: a set of reactions of you — the things people fire into chats instead of words.

Almost everyone who lives in messengers wants a sticker pack of their own face. It's funny, it's personal, and it spreads instantly: send a friend a sticker of you doing a facepalm and they immediately ask "where did you make that?". You used to go to an artist for this and pay per frame.

And there's less "magic" here than it looks. The app is a pipe: it took your photo and a list of emotions, made a request per emotion, and assembled the stickers into a set. All the difficulty lives in one good prompt.

What you'll learn

• Holding the face. The hard part of a sticker pack isn't drawing a smiley — it's keeping one person across every frame. You'll feel how the model holds one identity through different expressions.
• A photo as a reference. You give the model not just text ("make a surprised face") but a portrait — and ask it to draw you specifically. That's working with several input types at once.
• A loop over a list. The same request, eight different emotions. You'll build your first small loop: walk the list and hit the model for each item.

A ready starter prompt

Don't ask the agent to "make me a sticker pack" — it'll guess which emotions and what style. Give it the photo, the list, and the format:

A strong prompt leaves no room for guessing: you can see the photo goes in as a reference, the "don't change the appearance," the emotion list, and the grid format. The first try lands closer to what you wanted.

What you end up with

You upload one photo of yourself, hit "build" — and a few seconds later there's a grid on screen: you laughing, you shocked, you giving a thumbs up. You download it, load it into a messenger as a set — and in the very next chat you answer a friend not with text but with you doing a facepalm. Everyone asks how. And you uploaded one photo.

Start with one sticker for one emotion — and you'll have a thing that turns a plain selfie into a whole set of you for your chats.

Источник: Microsoft AI — MAI-Image-2.5: the face holds through changes in pose, expression and viewpoint