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AI photo software

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Lady
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(@lacychristine)
Estimable Member     Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
Joined: 4 years ago

I don't want to present myself as anything other than who and what I am, but it is fun to play around with software that softens the features, improves the makeup and all that. So I am wondering, are there any free tools that do a decent job? There are a lot that charge and the price is pretty high in many cases. What's free anymore?

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Lady
(@ellielan66)
Joined: 2 years ago

Active Member     Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
Posts: 4

@lacychristine facespp, remini and letsy are good programs not free but at a low cost.

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(@veroslondon)
Joined: 1 year ago

Reputable Member     Surrey, United Kingdom
Posts: 263

@lacychristine Hi Lacy, I use Fotor which I know has a free version. I subscribe on an annual basis (I think I pay about $30 or so) which gives me more features than the free version. Fotor is in no way software for professionals but it is easy to use.

Veronica xx

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Lady
(@purplepandajdk)
Joined: 12 months ago

Trusted Member     Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Posts: 26

@lacychristine 

the free versions are indeed limited.

I’ve used YouCam Makeup and MakeupPlus. MakeupPlus lets you at least test view some of the premium options for free.  I’ve used these to do a gender swap pick, and view a few styles of hair and lipstick.  Some of the preset palettes are interesting as well.

 

JD

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(@genievive)
Eminent Member     Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Joined: 1 year ago

That's a hard question to answer. Ever since my  OS upgrade I lost my ability to use Photoshop along with the rest of my creative suite tools and I refuse to lease on a monthly basis from Adobe for software I once used. The enjoyment of using Photoshop to super impose my likeness on pics from online catalogs to see what I might look good in was marvelous! Now the only way I can get that back is to partition my hard drive and reinstall the software again. unfortunately I have important information and files I don't risk losing so I live with the agony of not being able to do what I loved to do. I've searched for answers to your question many times and haven't found anything. I hope you find an answer.

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(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1284

@genievive I thought that about Adobe software but I am a relatively keen photographer and find it is worthwhile to take out the Lightroom/Photoshop subscription, especially as every November or so, Amazon do an offer on it reducing the price to about £70 a year. Probably not viable for Lacy though.

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(@genievive)
Joined: 1 year ago

Eminent Member     Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Posts: 19

@rebeccabaxter  Thanks for the info. If I ever get my freelance work back up I'll have to look for that offer.

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Lady
(@purplepandajdk)
Joined: 12 months ago

Trusted Member     Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Posts: 26

@genievive 

For the important files, I recommend something like OneDrive, Google Drive or any other cloud storage.  I know those two are free, and I’m sure others have free variants.

JD

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Lady
(@xamcd)
Joined: 10 months ago

Active Member     NYC, New York, United States of America
Posts: 6

@genievive Did you try a photoshop alternative called photopea? It's an online program and work like 90% of photoshop CS5.

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(@rdarkside01)
Joined: 4 years ago

Trusted Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 51

@genievive, have you looked into The Gimp as an alternative to Photoshop? Supposedly it can do all the same photo edits that Photoshop does - and it's everyone's favorite price - FREE!

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(@finallyfiona)
    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Joined: 1 year ago

I've run my drab face and various Fiona looks through a free website.

CDH rules prevent me from posting a direct link here, but just type 'Swap Gender to See the Other You with AILab' into your search engine.

Some of the results based on Fiona were amazing!  I think it works best if you've already made your features strong e.g. long blond wig, lipstick, mascara, otherwise it tends to put what styles it thinks is best on you.

 

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(@finallyfiona)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Posts: 1447

While I think about it, I've now set my avatar to the best of those results. (I know app-enhanced images aren't really welcome on the site, but it can only be seen as a thumbnail).  The AI came up with this image based on another shot from the same night as my one and only public photo on here.  It was actually a lot better than the result based on that photo!  Anyway I saw this beautiful woman looking out of - recognisably - my face, and it struck me, this is Fiona, this is who I am inside when I'm feeling feminine.  Having this image of myself makes me so happy!

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Lady
(@lacychristine)
Joined: 4 years ago

Estimable Member     Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
Posts: 60

@finallyfiona what app did you use?

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(@finallyfiona)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Posts: 1447

@lacychristine The details are in my original post above.  Just to note that it only works its magic on your face: even if you give it a full-body shot, the face is all you'll get back.  If you've already made yourself all femme with hair and make-up, it seems to work a lot better that if you just run your drab face through it, as it will try to present a female-featured equivalent of whatever face and hairstyle you give it, but it won't put on the enhancements of make-up for you.

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Lady
(@michaela2001)
Joined: 8 years ago

Noble Member     Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 794

@finallyfiona I recently got told off for posting an external link. Be careful Fiona.

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(@julie1001)
Joined: 8 years ago

Trusted Member     New York, United States of America
Posts: 65

@finallyfiona OMG, Fiona, i have been looking for something just like this - it looks like you have to create an account, is that right..? i worry about exposing myself Wink   too much online (except for CDH of course)...

but, oh how i would love to have a picture that looks (more) the way i feel.

JJ

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Lady
(@yuko5634)
Joined: 5 years ago

Trusted Member     Osaka, Japan
Posts: 34

Hi @julie1001, I think you can try with some app with filters first. The filters are only to make your eyes a bit bigger, smoother skin (dont use the feature Snapchat or FaceApp as the result could be generic). Then, just run through an image enhancer like Remini and you're good to go. No registration is needed

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(@julie1001)
Joined: 8 years ago

Trusted Member     New York, United States of America
Posts: 65

oh my, @yuko5634 - this was a lot of fun,
i went to Remini and played around with a photo i have of myself, and the difference was wonderful - though i couldn't find a way to 'save' it without purchasing some plan... 

thank you, 

J

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Lady
(@yuko5634)
Joined: 5 years ago

Trusted Member     Osaka, Japan
Posts: 34

@julie1001 Without purchasing a plan, I think Remini allows 10 free photos per day with ads

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(@finallyfiona)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Posts: 1447

@julie1001 I think the site has put up a paywall since I last used it, you appear to have to buy credits now whereas I didn't have to, maybe it was still learning at that point.  Not all the results I got were anything like as good as my avatar though, several of them were far from flattering!

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Lady
(@og1975swe)
Eminent Member     Södermanland, Sweden
Joined: 11 months ago

Hi,

I have used getimg.ai and leonardo.ai to make some image experiments, I uploaded real photos in getimg.ai and write text to modify the photo. For example, I took newer selfies and also older scanned photos and let the ai draw a femine version of my self. Sometimes the result was unrealistic, the surrounding (furnitures etc) was changed, sometimes the result was bizarre and funny, too many fingers, arms at strange places etc. I had a lot of fun, but I got much inspiration from these experiments.

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Lady
(@lea-jhene)
Noble Member     California, United States of America
Joined: 9 years ago

Be careful ladies about uploading your guy face photos and then generating feminine AI images. It's fun, but once you upload or create anything, it's not exactly private. Some AI programs will share that with others because AI works on the principle that it needs lots of input data, example data, to generate better images.

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
Famed Member     Cornwall, United Kingdom
Joined: 11 months ago

I only ever run Anna's face through this kind of software. It's interesting to see the results of different hair colours, hair lengths, etc. Interestingly, the programme I use always identifies me a female when I load a photo up. Experimenting with it gives me ideas for makeup, accessories etc

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Lady
(@harriette)
Joined: 2 years ago

Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3998

@annaredhead Which program do you use?

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
Joined: 11 months ago

Famed Member     Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1788

@harriette Faceapp. It's great though it has put me off trying a blonde wig

 

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Lady
(@jennijade)
Active Member     Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Joined: 10 months ago

I have a probably overly complex workflow for this stuff. This is how I do it:

(All of the below is for Android phones, using the free versions only of the apps. I do also use paid Lightroom, but that's not needed for any face-modding stuff.)

1. Take a photo of yourself. This bit is legitimately the hardest part. You'll want the face to be as clear as possible and at a mostly front-on angle.

2. Open that photo in Snapseed. This is a great free general-purpose photo-editing app. Do whatever edits you want to the photo (the portrait tool is quite good). But what we're really here for is the "expand" tool. This will let you add a white border around the whole photo - this will be important later. Add the largest border you can.

3. Now open your newly-expanded photo in Faceapp. The free version of this is limited, but the one feature we want (the "Gender" tool) is available for free. This will let you do an AI-powered gender swap on your face. Feel free to use any of the other free tools here while you're at it. Even if you've aced your real-world hair and makeup, Faceapp's gender tool will reshape features, add makeup, style hair, even sometimes create a new neckline.

When you go to save from Faceapp is where the white border comes into play. The free version of Faceapp puts a "Faceapp" watermark on the bottom of the photo, which you have to pay to remove. But if you've added the border from Step 2, the watermark should be entirely in the border and not cover your photo.

4. Once you're happy with your new face, we're going into a third app (I told you this was overly complex!). This one is Facetune - also freemium on Android. The free features here will let you do some of the AI makeup and hair effects (mostly in the preset "looks"), and things like reshaping the face or other body parts. This one also adds a watermark on the left-hand side of the photo - luckily our white border helps us with this one too.

5. Finally, open the Snapseeded-Faceapped-Facetuned Frankenstein's Monster of a photo in your favourite editor of choice (e.g. Google Photos or go back to Snapseed again, doesn't matter), and use a crop tool to remove the white border and take the watermarks along with it. Voila! Far-too-complicated (but free!) AI face editing.

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
Joined: 11 months ago

Famed Member     Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1788

@jennijade Thanks, I will give this a try

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