Turn one ordinary selfie into aesthetic photos for Instagram without leaving Telegram. Attach the selfie, describe the scene, the light and the outfit in the caption, and the bot sends back a finished lifestyle photo of you in about a minute: a Paris cafe at golden hour, a travel shot, a Story background. Your first 5 credits are free, and there is no app to install.
An AI photoshoot from one selfie
Most AI photoshoot apps ask for a batch of pictures, train a model for an hour and then hand you a grid of people who look a bit like you. Here it is one photo and one sentence. The bot takes the face and hair from your selfie and builds the new scene around them, so the woman in the hallway above is the same woman in the cafe and on the terrace.
That covers most of what people post:
- Feed posts: the cafe table, the city walk, the dinner, the gallery visit.
- Travel shots: a beach, a mountain viewpoint, a whitewashed island street.
- Golden hour portraits: warm side light and glowing hair, the Instagram aesthetic in one sentence.
- Photo dumps: several scenes from the same selfie, styled to look like one trip.
- Stories and Reels covers: vertical frames with room above the head for text and stickers.
The bot is an independent Telegram service and is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta. Instagram is named here only to describe where the photos end up.
How to make Instagram photos with AI in Telegram
- Open the bot in Telegram and press Start.
- Claim 5 free credits. Subscribe to @zosee_channel, then return to the bot and tap the claim button. The subscription alone grants nothing, the tap is what releases the credits. See the free credits page.
- Choose a model and the aspect ratio in the menu: 3:4 or 1:1 for the feed, 9:16 for a Story.
- Attach your selfie and write the scene as the caption of that same message. The photo and the text have to arrive together. A photo on its own, or a prompt sent as a second message, will not be paired.
If the result is close but not quite there, reply to it with the correction (“warmer light”, “make the shirt white”, “fewer people in the background”) and the bot edits its own output. Converging on one photo beats rolling a new one every time.
Instagram formats: which aspect ratio to pick
- Feed post, tall: 3:4. Instagram’s tallest feed format is 4:5, which the bot does not offer. 3:4 is the closest, and cropping it to 4:5 trims only a thin strip from the top or bottom, so keep your head clear of the edge.
- Feed post, square: 1:1, which also works as a profile picture.
- Stories and Reels covers: 9:16. Ask for “empty sky above her head” or “space at the top” if you plan to add text.
All five models in the bot offer 1:1, 3:4 and 9:16, so the format never limits your choice of model.
Prompts behind the examples
These are the exact prompts that turned the hallway selfie into the two photos above. Attach your own selfie, paste one, and swap the details.
Paris cafe at golden hour (the feed post, 3:4):
Aesthetic Instagram lifestyle photo of the woman from the attached photo sitting at a small round table on the terrace of a Paris cafe at golden hour. Low warm sun from the side, soft lens flare, glowing highlights in her hair. She wears a cream linen shirt and small gold earrings, holding a cup of coffee, a croissant on a plate in front of her, relaxed candid half smile, looking slightly away from the camera. Blurred Haussmann buildings and wicker cafe chairs behind her. Shot on a 35mm film camera, soft warm tones, natural skin texture. Keep the face and hair from the attached photo unchanged.
Greek island travel Story (9:16):
Vertical travel photo for an Instagram Story of the woman from the attached photo standing on a whitewashed terrace above the sea on a Greek island in the late afternoon. Blue domes and white houses behind her, calm deep blue sea below, warm sunlight. She wears a flowing white summer dress and a straw hat held in one hand, the breeze moving her hair, looking back over her shoulder at the camera with a natural smile. Full body in frame with empty sky above her head, candid phone photo feel, true colours, natural skin texture. Keep the face and hair from the attached photo unchanged.
The structure is the same in both: the place and the time of day, then the light, then the outfit and the pose, then one line about the camera look, and finally the line that protects your face. Change “woman” to “man” as needed, and keep the last sentence. The portraits category in the prompts library has more photoshoot prompts, including cafe, winter and car scenes, each shown next to the photo it produced.
Which model to pick
- NanoBanana Pro made both after-shots on this page. It holds a face together best through a big change of scene, which is exactly what a lifestyle photo from a selfie asks for. 4 credits at 2K, 5 at 4K.
- NanoBanana 2 is the everyday pick for a photo dump, 2 to 4 credits, when you want many scenes at a lower price per photo.
- GPT-Image-2 is the cheapest at 1 credit and the most literal about edits, the right choice when you only want to change the light or the outfit, or need readable text in the image.
- Seedream is the stylized one, for a painted or illustrated take on yourself rather than a photographic one.
What it costs
1 to 6 credits per image depending on the model and resolution, and credits never expire. A 2K NanoBanana Pro photo like the ones above is 4 credits, so the 5 free credits cover one full example with change left over. Payment is Telegram Stars, cryptocurrency, a bank card from any country ($), or a Russian bank card (₽). The pricing page has the packs.
Tips for an Instagram aesthetic
- Name the light. “Golden hour, low warm sun from the side” or “soft overcast daylight” does more for the aesthetic than any adjective like “beautiful”.
- Ask for a camera look. “Shot on a 35mm film camera” gives warm grain, “candid phone photo” gives the unposed look that reads as real.
- Keep the pose casual. “Looking slightly away”, “laughing”, “holding a cup” read as a moment. Straight-to-camera posing reads as a studio shot.
- Build a set, not a single. For a carousel or a photo dump, keep the outfit and light words the same and change only the place.
- Start from a good selfie. Sharp, evenly lit and head on. A dark or blurry source is where likeness drifts most.
Already have a photo you like and only want a better backdrop? Changing the background is a smaller edit that keeps everything else as it is, and the AI photo editor handles retouching, relighting and removing objects from a real photo.
Be honest about AI photos
These are generated images, not photographs of a trip you took. Where a platform asks you to label realistic AI-generated content, use its label: Instagram has one for exactly this. It keeps your account out of trouble and your followers informed.
Turn the photo into a Reel
A still of a cafe terrace or a sea view is often the first frame of a Reel: hair moving in the breeze, steam rising from the cup, a slow push in. Our sister video bot, also in Telegram, animates a photo you attach from the motion you describe in the caption. The photo itself costs nothing extra there, only the seconds of video are billed. The walkthrough is on the animate a photo in Telegram page.
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