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Image to Cape

Crop any picture into a Minecraft cape and elytra, with its colour filling in the edges and the wings. Download the PNG, or open it in the Cape Editor or the Studio.

Image to cape

Crop a picture to the cape's 10:16 shape. Its colour fills in the edges, the lining and the wings.

Preview

Cape
Wing

Edge colour

Elytra

Lining

Build over

Resolution
Edit in Cape Editor Render in Studio

Keep going

Painting and rendering are tools of their own, and the cape carries over to both

Edit it in the Cape Editor Paint a cape and its elytra in 3D, start from any official cape, and export for every cape mod. Build a cape here first and it carries over. Render it in the Studio Put a cape on any skin in 3D, pose and light it, and export a transparent PNG. Build a cape here first and it carries over.

More cape and skin tools

The rest of the set, for skins, banners and the capes players wear

Skin Editor Paint a skin straight on the 3D model, or on the flat texture beside it. Banner Designer Stack up to six loom patterns, then get the loom steps and a /give. Cape Daily Name the day's Minecraft cape from a few pixels of its texture. Skin Search Find and download the PNG behind any skin, plus who else wears it.

Frequently asked questions

Sizes, the elytra, and getting the cape into the game

How do I turn a picture into a Minecraft cape? +

Drop the picture on the crop area, paste it, or press Choose image. Drag the box over the part you want: it is locked to the cape's 10:16 shape and goes on the cape's back. The edges, the lining and the rest of the wings are filled with the picture's average colour, or one you pick, so the cape looks solid from every side. Then download the PNG, or open it in the Cape Editor to paint over it.

What size is a Minecraft cape texture? +

64×32 pixels, with the cape and the elytra on the one sheet. The back of the cape itself is only 10×16 of those pixels, which is why a picture loses its detail at the game's size. Cape mods such as MinecraftCapes and Cosmetica take high-resolution capes, so this tool builds at any doubling up to 2048×1024.

Does the picture go on the elytra too? +

By default, yes: the picture runs down each wing, trimmed to the usual wing shape and edged in the fill colour. You can make the wings one plain colour instead, or leave them alone. The lining, the side of the cape facing the player's back, can be the fill colour or the picture again.

Can I lay the picture over an existing cape? +

Yes. Under Build over, choose Cape file and open any cape texture, a template for one. The picture goes on top of it, and every face the picture leaves empty keeps what the cape file had.

Is my picture uploaded anywhere? +

No. The picture is read and built into a cape in your browser, and never leaves your device. Opening the cape in the Cape Editor or the Studio passes it through your browser's own storage, not a server.

How do I wear the cape in Minecraft? +

A cape can't be uploaded to a Minecraft account: official capes only come from Mojang. A cape you make is shown by cape mods and clients such as MinecraftCapes, LabyMod and Cosmetica to other players using the same mod. The Cape Editor's Export card saves the file the way each one wants it. OptiFine is the exception: it only draws capes from a banner design, which the Cape Editor's OptiFine mode makes.