Studio-Style Family Portraits for Your Family Photo Album

Creating family portraits with PhotoForPass takes three steps and a few minutes. You do not need coordinated outfits, a studio or a photographer.

1. Upload an everyday photo

Choose a recent photo where everyone is facing the camera, faces are sharp and nobody is cut off. A photo from a birthday, a trip or a Sunday lunch works.

2. Pay once

The set of 6 portraits costs $14.95. Pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, a card or Link. There is no subscription.

3. Download your portraits

Within minutes, your 6 family portraits are ready. You get one portrait in each of the six styles, with every face kept recognizable. Save them, print them for your album or share them with the family.

Your set of 6 portraits covers six styles, one portrait each, so your album gets variety from a single photo. Each style is inspired by the looks families usually book a photographer for.

Think about where each portrait will live. The classic studio and black and white portraits suit frames and heirloom albums; golden hour, beach and autumn feel warm and personal for cards, screens and social posts; lifestyle at home captures everyday family life.

A family photo album is more than a stack of snapshots. Portraits give it anchor pages, the images people stop at when they flip through years later.

Ideas for your album

• Open each year with a portrait. Start every year's section with a classic studio or black and white portrait, then fill the pages with candid moments.
• Make a generations page. Pair a portrait of grandparents with one of the grandchildren.
• Mix sizes. Print one portrait at 5x7 as the page centerpiece and smaller 4x6 prints around it.
• Keep a digital album too. Save the files in a shared family folder so every household has a copy.

Portraits from PhotoForPass download as image files suited to standard prints such as 4x6 and 5x7, the most common sizes for family picture albums and frames.

Your portraits can only be as clear as the photo you start with. A few quick checks make a real difference.

• Faces large and sharp. A photo taken a few feet away beats a wide shot across a park.
• Good, even light. Daylight from a window or open shade outdoors works best. Avoid harsh midday sun that causes squinting.
• Everyone visible. No one hidden behind another person or cut off at the edge, and no sunglasses.
• Facing the camera. Profiles and turned heads are harder to keep recognizable.
• Recent. Use a photo that shows how everyone looks today, especially growing kids.

Small groups give the most faithful results. For a big extended family, choose a photo where every face is clear, or create a set for each household.

A professional family photographer and PhotoForPass portraits serve different moments. A photographer captures a real day together; portraits created from an everyday photo give you polished album images without the planning.

If you can gather everyone for a session, that remains a wonderful experience. When schedules, distance, budgets or little kids make it hard, portraits from a photo you already have are a practical way to keep the family album growing.

Your family portraits are newly created images based on your photo, not photos taken in a studio. That is what lets one casual photo become six polished styles, and it comes with a few honest caveats.

• Faces come first. Each portrait is made to keep every person recognizable. A clear source photo matters most.
• Details can differ. Hands, jewelry, hair edges and clothing may not match your original exactly, especially in the outdoor styles.
• For keepsakes, not documents. Use the portraits for albums, frames, cards and gifts, never for IDs or passports.

If a portrait does not look like your family, ask for a redo (3 free redos per order), or use our 14-day money-back guarantee.

Family photos are personal, so they get the same protection as our passport photos. Your photo stays in your browser until you order.

After you order, it is encrypted in transit and at rest, used only to make your portraits, never sold or shared for advertising, and deleted automatically after 90 days. You can delete it sooner from My photos. Please upload only photos of people who are happy to be included, and of children you are the parent or guardian of.

A family portrait is one of the few gifts that gets more meaningful every year. Here are ideas that work with your set of 6.

• For grandparents: a framed classic studio portrait of the whole family, or a black and white print for their wall.
• For anniversaries: a golden hour portrait of the couple, printed at 5x7.
• For the holidays: festive Christmas portraits in six holiday scenes, or a Christmas photo card with a preset greeting.
• For family far away: a shared digital album with all 6 portraits.
• For a new home: a gallery wall with all six styles.

More keepsake collections, from couple portraits to memorial portraits, are in the photo studio.

If the portraits show another family, ask their permission before you upload their photo.