A PHOTO IN. A FIGURINE OUT.

The one in the picture,
standing on the shelf.

Drop in a photo. The subject is cut out, its edges rounded over, and real depth laid into it by a model that runs on your own machine; it comes back as a relief figurine that prints flat with no supports, and a pedestal with a slot it stands in. Nothing is uploaded.

Photo → Cut-out → Figurine & pedestal → Print

The cut-out

Drop a photo here, or press Choose. Then let the AI cut the subject out, or do it with the wand and brush.

Drop a photo or

A subject with a clear outline against the background works best: a pet, a person, a car, a plant. JPEG, PNG or HEIC-converted photos; it never leaves this page.

The figurine — the very solids that print

The figurine appears here once there is a cut-out.

Waiting for a photo Drag to orbit · scroll to zoom

The guide

What it makes

A relief, not a sculpture in the round: from the front it reads as the figure in the photo, from the side it is a thick plaque with a rounded edge, like a carved cameo. A true all-round figure from one photo needs models far too big for a web page; this one runs entirely on your machine, and a relief prints beautifully flat on its back with no supports at all.

The cut-out

Press Cut out the subject and a background-removal model does it. Where it is wrong, use the wand (click a colour to add everything like it, with the tolerance slider) and the brushes. The cut-out is tidied for printing: specks and hairs go, the biggest piece is kept, small holes close (the limit is yours), and anything in the bottom tenth is joined straight down to the tab so paws and feet stand on it.

The shape

The edge rolls over with a quarter-circle profile of the radius you set, worked out from the exact distance of every point to the outline. Depth from the model is split into a broad part that lifts the nearer body and a fine part for fur and folds, both fading to nothing at the edge so the outline stays crisp. Underneath is a flat slab. The tab is a 3 mm bar under the feet; the pedestal's slot is that plus the clearance, 5 mm deep.

Printing

Open the 3MF as a project. The figure lies on its back with the face up: print it as placed, 0.12 or 0.16 mm layers for the finest face, six top layers, no ironing on it (the 3MF sets that on the object). The pedestal prints standing, its top ironed. Push the tab into the slot; a drop of glue if you like. A textured plate gives the back a nice matte; a smooth plate a gloss.

Privacy and the network

The only things fetched are the AI library and the two models, from jsDelivr and the Hugging Face hub, the first time; the browser keeps them. The photo is never sent anywhere, and the page works without the models.

Cameo runs in your browser. Depth Anything V2 (Apache-2.0) and BRIA RMBG-1.4 (non-commercial licence, see their model card) are their authors' work. Bambu Lab and Bambu Studio are trademarks of their owner; Cameo is an independent tool.