Thai Songkran Portraits

The Songkran register

Songkran is Thailand's New Year measured in water — the silk chut thai and gold sabai for the temple blessing, the bright floral shirt for the street, jasmine garlands and a silver bowl tipping water over marigolds. This pack puts you in that frame. Three looks carry it: a silk chut thai at a temple water-blessing with white chedis and bougainvillea behind, a bright floral Songkran shirt in the festival street with a fine mist in the air, and a closer chut thai-and-Lanna-silver register heavy with jasmine. Each look is shot three ways — gold, jade and rose across the set — so the nine portraits read like a real Songkran gallery rather than the same photo nine times.

These are photographs, not paintings. The output is photoreal: your face and your features, dressed in Thai silk and lit by broad festival daylight — the sabai's gold thread legible, the water spray catching the light, the temple soft behind you. It borrows the garment, the festival light, and the grammar of the day; it does not turn you into a cartoon, a painting, or a costume.

How to photograph yourself for Songkran portraits

Good input, good festival.

1. Soft, even lightFace a window with indirect daylight on you. Skip the overhead bulb and the hard noon sun — both flatten the face and fight the bright daylight the pack is built around.
2. Front or three-quarter, at eye levelHold the camera level with your eyes. No selfie up-angle, no looking down — the festival register wants you square to the lens.
3. Plain wall behind youLet the pack build the temple courtyard, the chedis and the water. A clean backdrop sends the whole likeness budget to your face.
4. Hairline and face clearThe chut thai sets the hair back in a chignon with jasmine. A clear hairline in your source photo gives the pack a clean face to work from.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a real Songkran look or a costume filter?

It's built to read as a festival portrait, not a costume — real Thai silk, a gold sabai, jasmine garlands, a temple courtyard, a fine mist of festival water. What you get looks like a portrait a photographer would take at the festival.

Can I use these as a Songkran greeting or my profile picture?

Yes. The portraits are yours to post, print, and send — the Songkran card, the New Year wish, the Instagram status, the group chat.

Can I choose the colours?

You get all nine portraits, and the looks span the silk colourways the festival actually shows — aquamarine, golden yellow and rose for the temple chut thai, jade and coral florals for the street, jade and gold for the jewellery register. Rather than picking one and hoping, you see the whole spread and decide what suits you.

Will the photos look like me?

Every photo looks like you, well photographed. If one is nearly right, say what to change, in your own words.

Do I have to write a prompt?

No. There is nothing to write: you pick a pack, and it is ready in seconds.

How many photos of myself do I add?

Between six and twenty, from different days and in different light, with your face clear. We check each one when you add it.

What happens to the photos I add?

They are used only to create your model, on our own servers in the European Union. They are not shared and not sold.

When the Songkran pack fits

• Songkran and Thai New Year greetings — the card, the status, the group chat.
• A festive profile picture in a chut thai you didn't have to rent.
• Trying the silk colourways — gold, jade, rose — before a real shoot or a rental.
• Thai New Year for the diaspora, from anywhere the temple is a flight away.
• A gift for the friend or family member who hosts every Songkran and never sits for a photo.
• A bright water-festival portrait for a travel post or a Thailand memory.

About narcis

Most AI photo tools put every pose, job, era, and style in one giant catalog. The photos all look like every other AI photo on the internet — a glaze over a stock face. Narcis goes the other way. One job: photos of you that look like photographs. You add at least 6 photos of yourself, and we create your AI model from them. Your photos are ready in a few hours, and we email you when they are. Then this pack and every other pack on Narcis can be made with your face. Each pack is curated against real references — paintings, photographers, places — and tested on real faces before it goes live. Built and run by one small team, on our own servers.