Turn their photo into a pumpkin you can carve.

One clear subject that fills most of the square crop: a face, a pet, a character, a flower, or a simple logo you have the right to use. Bright, even light and a plain background help. Group photos, tiny faces, and busy scenes usually lose too much detail to carve.

AI can draw something that looks like a stencil, but it usually comes out backwards: the parts you cut glow, so dark hair ends up bright and a lit face goes dark. CarveKin draws your design the way it will look lit, so the light parts of your photo glow, and makes a few versions so you can pick your favourite. A stencil also has to be carvable: pieces can float free with nothing holding them, bridges can be too thin to survive, and fine details can vanish at print size. CarveKin fixes those problems in the actual pattern. It adds bridges to hold loose pieces, widens parts that are too thin, and clears away details too small to cut, keeping each change as small as it can. It also screens the pattern's structure with gravity in mind: if a face or another large area would hang from too little pumpkin and sag or break off, it adds supporting ribs, and it splits one huge cut into a few easier pieces. Then it checks the result at your print size. If a design can't be fixed without losing too much of it, we try again with a fresh drawing, and if that doesn't work either, we tell you instead of selling it. A real pumpkin can still vary, so look over your pattern before carving.

Every pattern is repaired where it needs it and checked before you receive it. If we can't make a carvable pattern from your photo, your credit is not used: try a tighter crop or another photo, up to six attempts per credit. If it still doesn't work, we'll refund you.

Choose Small (130 mm), Medium (180 mm), Large (240 mm), Extra large (300 mm), or a custom size from 120–350 mm. The size includes the white margin. Measure the flattest side of your pumpkin and allow at least an inch around the pattern. Larger sizes print across numbered Letter or A4 pages that you tape together. After unlocking, you can request another available size for free; each is remade and checked at its own size.

Yes. Your photo is never shown publicly. We send only your cropped photo to our image provider to create the design, and we delete the original and working images after 24 hours. You can delete a finished pattern at any time.