{"slug": "show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes", "title": "Show HN: Peelaway – Turn photos into illustrations, prints, and miniature scenes", "summary": "A developer launched Peelaway, a tool at peelaway.io that turns photos into illustrations, prints, and miniature scenes by starting from a curated gallery of visual styles rather than a text prompt. Peelaway offers an API and an MCP server so its editing tools can be used from code or an agent, and the developer said the style gallery moved to the center of the product after users reported difficulty describing a style. The Show HN post received 1 point and 0 comments.", "body_md": "hey hn, i've been building peelaway, a tool for creating and editing images that starts with a curated gallery of visual styles.\n\nthe idea is pretty simple: pick a style you like, then make something with a photo, a prompt, or both. you can turn a photo of your cat into a screen print, or try a paper-craft or miniature look.\n\nPeelaway started with image editing, and over time i moved the style gallery to the center of the product. i often heard users describing how hard it is to describe a style, so im interested in how much of the process can start with seeing something you like, instead of figuring out how to describe it.\n\nthere’s also an api and mcp server if you want to use the editing tools from code or an agent.\n\nwould love to hear what you try, where it falls short, and whether picking a style is a useful starting point for you.\n\npeelaway.io\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758906](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758906)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes", "canonical_source": "https://peelaway.io/", "published_at": "2026-09-18 19:16:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 19:25:50.061560+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Peelaway", "peelaway.io", "Hacker News", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-peelaway-turn-photos-into-illustrations-prints-and-miniature-scenes.jsonld"}}