Christmas gift idea
A Personalized Christmas Coloring Book Made From Your Photos
Turn this year’s family photos into a Christmas coloring book the kids will actually want to open. Pick the pictures, choose a style, add a cover with your family’s name, and print it at home.
There’s nothing to order and nothing to wait for in the mail. That’s the whole point: it’s still a real gift if you only get to it on the evening of December 24th.
The browser trial needs a Google sign-in. The app is coming to iPhone first.
From a family photo to a page to color
Here’s what Pintej does with a cozy family photo: it keeps the people and the moment, and turns them into clean outlines with closed areas, ready to fill in.
Real Pintej output from a sample photo we use for demos. Your own photos go through exactly the same steps.
How to make it before Christmas Eve
- 1
Choose 8–12 photos
The tree, a snowy walk, grandparents, the dog in a Santa hat. Clear faces and simple backgrounds work best.
- 2
Turn them into pages
Pick a style (Normal, Manga or Comic). Each photo becomes a page with bold black lines.
- 3
Lay out the book
In the Studio, set the page order, add a cover and a title like “The Miller Family Christmas”.
- 4
Print it at home
Export a PDF (A4, A5 or mini-book) and print the whole book or just the pages you want.
A last-minute gift with no shipping
Most personalized coloring books are printed and shipped, which means ordering in early December and hoping the parcel arrives. A Pintej book is a file you print yourself, so there’s no delivery date to miss.
You need a printer and some paper. For markers, 120 gsm paper (about 32 lb) stops the ink from bleeding through.
A Christmas Eve activity for the kids
Print a few pages after dinner on the 24th and let the kids color themselves, their cousins and the tree. It keeps everyone busy while the grown-ups finish wrapping — and the pages make a good keepsake afterwards.
- One page per child, with their own photo
- A page of the whole family for everyone to color together
Cover ideas
- “The Miller Family Christmas 2026”
- “Grandma & Grandpa’s Christmas”
- “Our First Christmas in the New House”
Questions
Will it arrive in time for Christmas?
There’s nothing to deliver. You print the book yourself at home, so you can make it right up to Christmas Eve.
Do you ship a printed book?
No. Pintej is digital: you export a PDF and print it on your own printer.
What formats can I print?
A4, A5 or a mini-book with several pages per sheet. You can print the whole book or only some pages.
Which phones does the app run on?
Pintej is an iPhone app, coming soon to the App Store. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day it opens. You can already try the photo-to-coloring-page step in your browser.
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Pintej is coming to iPhone.
Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day Pintej opens on the App Store.
We'll ping you at launch. No ongoing newsletter.
Want to see it first? Turn one of your photos into a coloring page.