Make your dad a card he'll actually keep this Father's Day

You know the one. Saturday afternoon, supermarket card aisle, forty options and none of them right. You end up with something that has a fishing joke on it even though your dad has never been fishing. You write something in it that sounds like the inside of a different card. He smiles, says thanks, props it on the mantelpiece for a week and then it goes in the bin.

This year there's a better option and it takes about ten minutes.

AIPrinter lets you create a custom image inside ChatGPT and have it printed on a greeting card, delivered to your door. Upload a photo of your dad, describe what you want, and the AI does the rest. The card ends up with him in it, his face, his likeness, whatever scene you put him in. Nothing on a shop shelf comes close to that.

Upload a photo and things get interesting

You don't have to use a reference photo, but if you do, the results go from good to genuinely memorable. A face-forward shot in decent light works best. ChatGPT will use your dad's likeness in whatever scene you describe.

Here are some ideas that actually land.

For the dad who explains roundabouts like he invented them:

“Using this photo of my dad, illustrate him as a stern professor at a whiteboard covered in diagrams, pointing to a complex flowchart that just says ‘INDICATE THEN GO’. Realistic but slightly absurd.”

For the dad whose DIY confidence consistently outpaces his DIY ability:

“Using this photo, draw my dad as a heroic action movie character standing proudly in front of a shelf he put up, which is visibly at a 15-degree angle. He looks thrilled. Everything on the shelf is slowly sliding off.”

For the dad who says he's “not asleep, just resting his eyes”:

“Using this photo, create a dramatic Renaissance oil painting of my dad asleep in his armchair. Grand, formal, the kind of thing you'd see in the National Portrait Gallery. Title at the bottom: ‘Man With Remote, 3:40pm’.”

For the dad who responds to every text three days later:

“Illustrate my dad as a medieval herald on horseback, dramatically delivering a rolled scroll. The scroll reads: ‘OK sounds good’. Style it like an illuminated manuscript.”

For the one that'll actually make him emotional:

“Illustrate my dad and me [doing a specific thing: fishing, watching a match, in the kitchen]. Use this photo for his likeness. Warm and nostalgic, like a vintage print. The kind of thing you'd frame.”

That last one consistently lands harder than any joke card would.

Getting the prompt right

The most common mistake is being too vague. “Make something funny” gives you something generic. The more specific you are, the more it looks made for him, because it was.

Tell ChatGPT the art style you want. Watercolour, oil painting, flat illustration, vintage poster, comic book each produces something completely different from the same scene. If you're not sure, ask ChatGPT to suggest a style based on the mood you're going for.

Put in the details that matter. Does he always wear a specific colour? Has he got a beard? Is there a dog that should be in it? Name them. And if the first result isn't quite right, just say what needs changing. You're in a conversation, use it like one.

Ordering the card

Once you've got an image you're happy with, install AIPrinter from the ChatGPT marketplace. It takes about thirty seconds. From there, tell it what you want: greeting card, postcard, sticker pack. Give your delivery address and pay via Stripe. The printing and shipping is handled from there.

The whole thing happens inside ChatGPT. No switching apps, no uploading to a third-party site.

Father's Day is Sunday 15th June. Order by Wednesday 11th June to be safe.