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Decade pages recreate how photos looked in a specific era: the clothes, the hair and the way the picture itself was taken, from vivid slide-film color in the 1980s to disposable-camera flash in the 1990s and low-rise, digital-camera styling in the 2000s. Choose the 1980s, 90s or 2000s page when you already have one decade in mind, and the retro page when you want to compare looks from the 70s to Y2K before deciding. The period details are added around your face rather than replacing it, so a front-facing photo gives the most convincing result.

Festival pages turn a photo you already have into a portrait or a poster for a specific day: Indian festivals such as Gandhi Jayanti, Navratri, Durga Puja, Karwa Chauth and Diwali, and Western holidays such as Halloween. People look for these looks in the run-up to the day, so festival pages go up well before it. The prompts focus on outfits, lights, food and decorations rather than on deities, and most Navratri and Durga Puja prompts explicitly ask the model to leave idols and deity figures out of the frame. If you celebrate several Indian festivals, the Indian festival page collects them in calendar order.

Occasion pages are built around a subject rather than a date: a birthday, a couple, a wedding or a pet. The subject decides which photo you should start with. Couple and wedding prompts need one photo with both people in it, pet prompts need a clear photo of the animal, and birthday prompts work with a single portrait. Each page explains what its prompts change and what they keep, so you can match a prompt to the photo you have instead of the other way round.

Style pages cover looks and fixes that are not tied to a date. Some change how you are presented: a professional headshot, a sharper DSLR-style version of a phone selfie, a saree portrait, portrait looks for men and for women, a cozy autumn portrait or a preview of a tattoo on your own skin. Others ask Gemini to change one thing and keep the rest: a new hairstyle, a new background behind you, or a damaged old photo repaired and colorized. If you are not sure where to start, a headshot or a background change is the simplest first edit, and old photo restoration is the page to use for family pictures.

Video pages turn a photo you already have into a short clip. Each prompt describes how the photo should move: what flickers or drifts, where the camera goes and how long the clip lasts, and every prompt has a sample clip beside it so you can see the kind of motion to aim for. Photo-to-video tools usually start from your photo, so they can only animate what is already in the frame. If your photo is a plain selfie, make a festive portrait first with a page from Festivals or Styles, then bring it to life here. Start with a clear, well-lit photo of an adult, and watch the whole clip before you share it.