Selective Style Transfer
Brush a region of your photo and describe a style — Klein restyles only the brushed area while keeping the rest of the photo untouched. Turn one face into a Studio Ghibli illustration, restyle a building as a watercolor painting, give an object a 1970s sci-fi poster look. Subject + composition stay the same; only the visual style changes.
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How to Use Selective Style Transfer
- Upload your photo
- Brush over the region you want to restyle (a face, an object, a building, the background)
- Describe the target style — be specific (medium, era, palette)
- Click Process and download the restyled photo
Features
- Brush + style prompt — Klein restyles just the brushed region
- Anime, watercolor, oil painting, line art, retro poster — name any style
- Subject + composition + pose are preserved; only the visual style changes
- The rest of the photo stays byte-identical to the source
- Generative diffusion (FLUX.2 Klein), so each run produces a fresh interpretation
- Works on JPG, PNG, WebP — outputs clean PNG
- No sign-up, no watermark on the output
- Free with rate limit; unlimited on Pro
Frequently Asked Questions
- How is this different from full-image style transfer?
- Most style-transfer tools restyle the entire image. This one restyles only the region you brush. The rest of the photo stays exactly the same — same lighting, same subjects, same composition. Use it when you want one part of a photo to look different (e.g. just one person in anime style, just the sky in oil-painting style).
- What styles work best?
- Concrete, well-known styles: Studio Ghibli, watercolor, oil painting, pencil sketch, comic book, 1970s sci-fi poster, art deco, low-poly 3D, cyberpunk neon. Vague prompts like "cool" or "different" produce inconsistent results. Naming the medium (oil, watercolor, ink), era (1980s, art nouveau), and palette (muted earth tones, neon) gives the best output.
- Will the subject stay recognizable?
- Yes. Klein uses your photo as a structural reference — the underlying pose, shape, and composition are preserved while the visual style changes. A face stays the same face, an object stays the same object — they just look like they were drawn or painted instead of photographed.
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- How is this different from Generative Fill or Replace Anything?
- Same model, different prompt scaffold. Generative Fill replaces the brushed content entirely with whatever you describe. Selective Style Transfer keeps the underlying subject and only changes how it's rendered. If you want a dog to become a cat, use Replace Anything. If you want the dog to look like a watercolor painting of itself, use this.
- Does it leave watermarks or reduce resolution?
- No watermark on the output. Full-resolution PNG at the same dimensions as your input. Klein processes at up to ~1024px internally; we Lanczos-upscale back to your original size.