Member-only storyMike YoungFollowBetter Programming--ShareNostalgia is a powerful force in social media, and the latest retro trend is going back to school with AI-generated Yearbook-style photos. Apps like Epik have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram by letting users transform their selfies into stylized portraits that look like they came straight out of a ’90s high school yearbook.In this article, we’ll build our own basic yearbook photo changer in Node.js using Catacolabs’ Yearbook Pics AI model, which is hosted on Replicate. Our implementation will let us turn a headshot into a ’90s-style yearbook photo. Retro!We’ll learn how to:And I’ll provide the full code at the end. Let’s dive in and ride the retro photo trend.For this guide, we’ll be using the Yearbook Pics model to transform input images into their yearbook equivalents. The Yearbook Pics model is a creative image-to-image AI that stylizes portraits in the style of ’90s high school senior photos.It takes a headshot photo as input and outputs a transformed image with various retro filters, grain, colors, and other tweaks that give it that classic yearbook vibe.Under the hooBuilding Our Epik-Style Yearbook Photo Appd, it uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture optimized for performing this specific style transfer task.The model was trained by Catacolabs and made conveniently available via the Replicate API.All right, let’s dive deeper into the technical implementation of the Epik-style app using the yearbook-pics model by catacolabs.----Better ProgrammingWriting in-depth beginner tutorials on AI, software development, and startups. Follow me on Twitter @mikeyoung44 !Mike Young--1Benoit RuizinBetter Programming--203VinitainBetter Programming--34Mike YounginArtificial Intelligence in Plain English--1Kenneth LeunginBetter Programming--2Diana DovgopolinArtificial Corner--39AL Anany--404Ryan ShrottinLevel Up Coding--2MiKi Digital--1Marcos Pereira Júnior--10HelpStatusAboutCareersBlogPrivacyTermsText to speechTeams