Google introduces Diwali AI feature: How to create personalised festive images using your photos

Google is also joining the Diwali celebrations with a new AI-powered festive experience on its Search app. The feature allows users to turn their photographs into personalised Diwali-themed images, with creative options such as greeting cards, rangoli designs and home decor inspiration. It gives users an easy way to add a festive touch to their pictures.

The experience appears when users search for 'Diwali' or 'Diwali 2026' on Google. A prompt reading 'Be part of the tradition' appears on the search results page, inviting users to explore the feature.

Tapping it opens a dedicated interface titled 'Celebrate Diwali', where users can browse different image ideas and create their own festive visuals.

Google Diwali AI Feature: What can users create?

The 'Celebrate Diwali' interface offers three creative options: greeting cards, rangoli designs and decor inspiration. Each option comes with a ready-made AI prompt provided by Google, which users can use to generate their images after uploading a photograph.

Greeting card: Users can create a personalised Diwali greeting featuring themselves holding a glowing diya, dressed in traditional attire, with marigold decorations and fireworks in the background.

Prompt: Using the photo, create a vertical greeting card of the subject holding a glowing clay diya, casting soft uplight on their face. The subject is in elegant traditional Indian attire on a stone-railed rooftop terrace at night. Background features diyas, marigolds, and fireworks. Gold-foil 'Happy Diwali' text top-center. Strictly maintain exact facial features. If I don't provide an image, ask me.

Drawing rangoli: This option lets users create a festive portrait featuring themselves making a colourful rangoli. Google's sample image shows a woman in traditional attire creating a rangoli in a decorated courtyard.

Prompt: Using this selfie, create a photorealistic portrait of the person wearing elegant traditional Diwali festive attire, kneeling next to an intricate, colorful floral rangoli on a polished marble floor. Palatial Indian courtyard setting, warm ambient lighting from oil lamps, soft depth of field, high-end travel photography, eye-level, vertical 4:5. Do not include text. Keep face 100 percent same. If I don't provide an image, ask me.

Decor inspiration: The decor inspiration option allows users to upload a photograph of their room and transform it into a Diwali-themed space. Google's example features marigold garlands, brass lanterns, decorative cushions and warm festive lighting.

Prompt: Redecorate this room for a traditional Diwali celebration while keeping furniture and layout intact. Drape vibrant orange marigold garlands across windows, hang warm brass lanterns, and place a small floral rangoli with safe tea-lights beside the table. Rich embroidered silk cushions, cozy ambient golden twilight glow, architectural interior photography, vertical 9:16. Do not include text. If I don't provide an image, ask me.

How to create personalised Diwali images using Google AI

Users can try the experience through Google Search by following these steps:

Step 1: Open the Google app on your smartphone.

Step 2: Search for 'Diwali' or 'Diwali 2026'

Step 3: Look for the 'Be part of the tradition' prompt on the search results page.

Step 4: Tap the prompt to open the 'Celebrate Diwali' interface.

Step 5: Browse the available options, including Greeting card, Drawing rangoli and Decor inspiration.

Step 6: Select the image style you want to create.

Step 7: Tap 'Generate your image with AI Mode' and upload your photograph.

Step 8: Review the ready-made prompt provided by Google and edit it to match the image you want, or write your own prompt. Submit the prompt to generate your personalised festive image.

Google's AI Mode can use the uploaded photograph and the instructions to create an image based on the selected theme. Users can also describe details such as their preferred outfit, background, lighting and decorations to customise the result.

Diwali 2026: Dates

Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is one of the most widely celebrated festivals in India. In 2026, the five-day Diwali celebrations will be observed from November 7 to November 11. The celebrations include Dhanteras on November 6, Kali Chaudas on November 7, Diwali and Lakshmi Puja on November 8, Diwali-related rituals on November 9, Govardhan Puja on November 10 and Bhai Dooj on November 11.

The festival is dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, who is worshipped for prosperity and good fortune, along with Lord Ganesha. Lakshmi Puja is considered the most important ritual of Diwali and is traditionally performed after sunset during the Pradosh Kaal, when the Amavasya tithi is prevailing.