Locket Press

Tell the story the way you remember it. Add a few photos from your phone. Locket Press paints it into a picture book with your family in it: the kids, the grandparents, the dog, the place you went.

The week at the lake with Grandpa. The first morning of school. The night the baby came home.

Say it or type it
A sentence or two is enough to begin, and every line stays yours to change.

Painted from your photos
Add a photo of each person in the story. Each one is painted into the book as a character, down to the yellow raincoat and the bent ear. The pictures are painted by AI from your photos and your words, a likeness rather than a photo edit, and we never train anything on your photos.

Four ways to paint it
Botanical Sketchbook, Sunlit Gouache, Block Print or Soft Watercolor.

Change any page
Rewrite the words on any page. Paint a page again, and every version is kept.

Read it together
On your phone, at bedtime. Send family a link, and turn it off whenever you like.

A hardcover, if you want one
8.5 inches square, 24 pages in full color, shipped within the United States. You approve every page, and a person at the press checks each order before it prints.

Painting a book takes a membership. The hardcover is always optional, and ordering one never requires a membership.