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Your face, your age - only the decade changes

Put yourself in the 1990s yearbook.

Upload a few selfies, pick a decade and a studio backdrop, and get back period-style school portraits - feathered hair, cloud backdrop, film grain, the lot. It's still you: the same face, the same apparent age, just a different era around it.

Make your throwback - from $6 See the eras

Clear front-facing selfies work best. Five or more references give the strongest likeness.

Senior portraits
1980sCloud pattern
1990sLaser / starburst
Early 2000sPlain gradient
1990sPlain gradient
Early 2000sCloud pattern
1980sLaser / starburst

Layout illustration - every portrait is generated from your own photos.

Before and after

Each pack below was generated exactly the way yours will be: a few casual source photos in, a finished set out. Nothing was retouched afterwards.

Before · source photos
Source photo of a young woman with long brown hair, 1 of 3, taken on a phoneSource photo of a young woman with long brown hair, 2 of 3, taken on a phoneSource photo of a young woman with long brown hair, 3 of 3, taken on a phone
After · Phoxel
Phoxel result for a young woman with long brown hair, 1 of 3, generated from the source photos
Phoxel result for a young woman with long brown hair, 2 of 3, generated from the source photos
Phoxel result for a young woman with long brown hair, 3 of 3, generated from the source photos
Before · source photos
Source photo of a young woman with dark curly hair, 1 of 3, taken on a phoneSource photo of a young woman with dark curly hair, 2 of 3, taken on a phoneSource photo of a young woman with dark curly hair, 3 of 3, taken on a phone
After · Phoxel
Phoxel result for a young woman with dark curly hair, 1 of 2, generated from the source photos
Phoxel result for a young woman with dark curly hair, 2 of 2, generated from the source photos
Eras & backdrops

Three decades, three backdrops, mix freely.

Pair any era with any studio backdrop. Each portrait costs 10 credits.

1980sFeathered hair, Kodachrome grade
Our pick
1990sCrimped hair, Portra 400 grain
Early 2000sSleek hair, glowy soft light
Cloud patternMottled blue-grey backdrop
Laser / starburstBlue and white studio classic
Plain gradientSoft pastel, nothing loud
pick your combo in the app
Why bother

A throwback that's actually you.

Your likeness, locked.

Every generation is told to keep your real facial structure and your exact apparent age - no added wrinkles, no eye bags, no swapping you for a model who vaguely resembles you.

The era does the work.

Period lighting, film grain, hair and outfit cues and a real school-portrait backdrop - the decade lands without a filter slapped over your selfie.

Missed the trend? It's minutes.

No studio, no borrowed varsity jacket, no photographer. Upload, pick an era, come back to a set of portraits ready for the group chat.

Pricing

Buy credits. 10 credits = 1 portrait.

Credits work across every Phoxel niche - throwback portraits today, headshots or pet portraits tomorrow. No subscription, no expiry. Sign up and get 20 free credits - your first 2 photos are on us.

Starter

$6
200 credits · $0.30/photo
  • 20 portraits
  • One era + backdrop combo
  • JPG download + ZIP
Get starter

Plus

$15
600 credits · $0.25/photo
  • 60 portraits
  • All three eras in one go
  • Save 17% vs starter
Get popular
OUR PICK

Pro

$29
1500 credits · $0.19/photo
  • 150 portraits
  • Every era, every backdrop, plenty of retries
  • Use across other niches too
  • Save 36% vs starter
Get pro

Studio

$49
3000 credits · $0.16/photo
  • 300 portraits
  • A whole friend group, one project each
  • Save 46% vs starter
Get studio
FAQ

Throwback portrait questions, sorted.

No, and we don't pretend otherwise. It's an AI restyle of your own selfies into a period studio-portrait look - era lighting, film grain, hair and outfit cues, classic school-photo backdrop. It's a nostalgia bit for your feed, not a scan of a genuine archival yearbook.
That's the whole point. Every generation is instructed to keep your real facial structure and likeness, and your exact apparent age from the references - no added wrinkles, age lines or eye bags, and no turning you into a different person. The era changes hair, clothes, lighting and grain, not who you are.
Up to 10 photos of yourself. Clear, front-facing shots work best for the retro look; varied lighting and expressions help, sunglasses and heavy filters hurt. Five or more references give the best likeness, fewer still work. JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC up to 12 MB each.
Three eras - 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s - and three studio backdrops - cloud pattern, laser / starburst, and plain gradient. Mix them however you like; each portrait costs 10 credits.
Yearbook (3:4) by default, which is the classic school-portrait shape. Square (1:1) is there too if you want it for a profile picture.
Only with their say-so. Upload photos of yourself, or of someone who has agreed to it - the output carries a real person's face, so treat it like their photo, not yours.
No. Buy a pack and use it whenever - credits sit in your account until you spend them, across any niche.

More on how this works:

The three reference photos that decide whether your AI shots are usableWhat AI actually changes in a photo - and what it isn't allowed to touch

Class photo you never took.

20 portraits, a few minutes, $6 to start. Same face, better decade.

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