Calavera Cabina: a tribute app for Día de Muertos

Description and use

The app lets conference visitors take a selfie and receive a fine‑line tattoo portrait generated by Cloudinary, suitable for printing on a thermal printer.

Problem

Build a seasonal booth experience that lets visitors take a selfie and receive a stylized sticker printed on a thermal printer, using Cloudinary’s image generation tooling.

Outcome

The app successfully generates a black‑and‑white fine‑line tattoo portrait of the user, preserving facial features and suitable for small‑size thermal printing.

Workflow

• 1. Capture selfie with camera
• 2. Send selfie and prompt to Cloudinary Image Generation API
• 3. Receive generated image as a managed asset
• 4. Print image on thermal printer

Evidence

With AI, it's trivially easy to scaffold an app that will take your selfie and use Cloudinary's Image Generation tooling to generate something that would work for my little thermal printer.

Source

"Restyle the person in [1] as a Día de Muertos-inspired fine-line tattoo portrait. ... Use crisp black ink on a pure white background with delicate tattoo-flash linework..."

Source