FaceApp, a Russia-based app that applies filters to photos, has yet come back in the spotlight this week and gone viral. The app first went viral in 2017, but this time it’s catching on because of a filter that makes users look older or younger. Despite the recent privacy concerns, it’s actually got a decent number of different fun editing options, filters, backgrounds and more. Lets show you how you can play around with FaceApp without using the PRO (paid for features)
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Most posts on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook are the aging filter which has easily become one of the easily most popular option that folks have been playing with this week. It isn’t the only one, though. There are eight different options with filters for you to choose from: impression, Makeup, Smiles, Hair colors, Hairstyles, Glasses, Age, and Beards.
Each option of FaceApp has several different filters that can be settled over your face. Some of them work better than others, but they’re all a lot of fun to play with and see what you’d look like under different circumstances. Beards probably work the best, while hair color doesn’t do much for our melanin filled skin tonnes (read as black). Glasses is pretty fun as well and worked correctly.
Filters, Lens Blur, and Backgrounds
Here is where things get interesting especially when using a full body image and not a face alone. You have Filters which will change the way your whole photo looks, Lens Blur which will make you pop against the background of your images, and Backgrounds to change your photo’s backdrop. Apart from filters, the other two totally failed to reproduce good results.
But, when they work well, of these three FaceApp options, the most fun option is Background. You can superimpose yourself against streets in various cities, make it look like you are on vacation and even try to trick your friends into thinking you are on a hike up in the mountains. Assuming they can believe that kind of thing.
Overlays, Tattoos and Vignettes
The set of fun things you can do with FaceApp for free also comes in the form of Overlays, Tattoos, and Vignettes. Overlays translate to things like lens flares and colors that shift over your photo, changing the way it looks. They’re relatively similar to the idea of a filter but don’t look the same once you’re done. There are also a handful of silly little tattoos you can add to your face. Last but not least is the vignette option which darkens the area around you in a photo to make sure you’re at the center of things.
While the tattoos are cute, the most fun of these three is the Vignette option. If you love the overlays there are over a dozen different Overlays that you can set on your photo, and each one looks a bit different.
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