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Cyanotype AI Photo Generator: Cyanotype Print

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Cyanotype Print

Cyanotype Print

An old sun print in deep Prussian blue and paper white, with soft uneven edges, textured paper and faint brush marks from the chemistry.

Works on

  • Seedream 5.0 ProBest$0.036 / image
  • Qwen Image 3.0$0.03 / image
  • Wan 2.7$0.03 / image
  • Qwen Image 3.0 Pro$0.04 / image
  • + 20 more models

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An old sun print in deep Prussian blue and paper white, with soft uneven edges, textured paper and faint brush marks from the chemistry.

Category
Photo & film
Works on
37 models
Price
From $0.01 / image
Suggested frame
4:5 · 3:4
Your own photo
Yes, restyles an upload
Doesn't stack with
Monochrome

Same subject, with and without it

Each pair is the same sentence on the same model. The left frame has no style; the right one is Cyanotype Print. That gap is what the style adds.

  • The test subject with no style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    No style
    Sample in the Cyanotype Print style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    With Cyanotype Print

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

  • The test subject with no style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    No style
    Sample in the Cyanotype Print style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    With Cyanotype Print

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

  • The test subject with no style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    No style
    Sample in the Cyanotype Print style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    With Cyanotype Print

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

  • The test subject with no style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    No style
    Sample in the Cyanotype Print style, made with Seedream 5.0 Pro
    With Cyanotype Print

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

Samples

The same fixed test subjects run through every style, so you see what Cyanotype Print does rather than what the subject brings.

  • Sample in the Cyanotype Print style, made with Qwen Image 3.0
    Qwen Image 3.0

About Cyanotype Print

Cyanotype Print turns your subject into one of the oldest photographic processes: a sun print in rich Prussian blue on white paper. Everything is rendered in shades of a single blue, the highlights stay the color of the paper, and the edges of the print fade out unevenly where the chemistry was brushed on by hand. The paper has a soft, fibrous texture you can almost feel.

You write the subject and the style supplies the process. It is lovely on things with strong shapes — leaves and flowers, a lighthouse, a bicycle, a cat on a sill — and it gives portraits a quiet, archival calm, as if they had been found in a box of family prints. Because the palette is fixed, the image always feels coherent, whatever you write.

Use it for wedding and event stationery, botanical prints, posters, book covers, album art and interior prints. It is not the choice for vivid color; for that, use Riso Duotone or Retro Futurism.

For this composition, we recommend 4:5, with 3:4 as another framing option. Cyanotype Print also works on an uploaded image: in image-to-image mode it reprints your photo in Prussian blue and paper white with soft uneven edges, and keeps the composition, pose and clothing unchanged. Photos with clear shapes and a bright background convert best.

Subjects to paste as they are: “a woman reading by a tall window”, “a sprig of fern and two ginkgo leaves on white paper”, “a small lighthouse on a rocky point”. Clear silhouettes read beautifully in a single color.

Finishes that work on top: Film Grain adds more paper grain. Skip Monochrome; the blue is the whole point.

Tips that make it land

  • Strong shapes print best: leaves, flowers, silhouettes, architecture. Fine detail softens in a single blue.
  • Mention a bright background — a window, the sky, white paper — so the highlights stay crisp.
  • For botanical prints, describe the plants laid flat on paper; it is the classic way cyanotypes were made.
  • For uploads, choose photos with good contrast; flat, grey images turn into a uniform blue.
  • If the edges feel too rough, add “with clean trimmed edges” to your subject.

The prompt it sends

Your sentence goes where {subject} sits. Everything around it is the style. Nothing is hidden, and we never filter your prompt.

{subject}, cyanotype sun print, rich Prussian blue and paper white, soft uneven exposure at the edges, textured watercolor paper, faint brushed chemistry marks, quiet archival stillness
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With your own photo

When you add a reference image, this wording is sent instead, so your composition stays and the look changes.

Reprint the image as a cyanotype sun print in rich Prussian blue and paper white, with soft uneven edges, textured watercolor paper and faint brushed chemistry marks. {subject}. Keep the composition, pose and clothing unchanged.

Prompt ideas for Cyanotype Print

Scenes from our prompt library that suit this look. Borrow the idea as your subject line; the style adds the rest.

Nature & landscapes

  • Shirt flared like wings on a salt flat at sunriseKrea 2 Large
  • Turn a frozen aurora night into a midsummer eveningSeedream 5.0 Pro
  • Move a studio portrait onto a frozen lake at blue hourWan 2.7

Models it works on

Every model below was tested with this style. The price is per image and shows on the Generate button before you run.

How to use Cyanotype Print

  1. 01

    Write who or what

    Write one plain sentence for your Cyanotype Print image: who or what is in it and what is happening. The style brings the light, color and medium, so leave those out.

  2. 02

    Keep Cyanotype Print on

    It is already selected at the top of this page and lands best on Seedream 5.0 Pro, the model it was tuned on. Add a photo if you want your composition kept and only the look changed.

  3. 03

    Generate

    From $0.01 per image, shown on the button before you run. Pick your favorite Cyanotype Print frame, then edit it, restyle it or make it move from the result.

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