Facetune for iPhone. The app every selfie maniac needs

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

To be honest, I love taking selfies and posting them on Instagram. I try not to litter the feed of my friends with a billion of my "selfies" and make them, whenever possible, diverse, so as not to resemble this well-known dude.

Here's his Instagram in case you get curious.

Naturally, every photo of mine that gets into the feed undergoes a rigorous selection and at least minimal processing. Basically, I just try to make good angles and choose filters that will smooth out the imperfections. I tried various applications a la Photoshop, but none of them impressed me. More often than not, there was not enough strength even to test all the possibilities. I am completely uncomfortable with manipulating photos with my fingers on a tiny screen.

But finally I decided to master at least one such application and opted for Facetune. It cost 15 rubles (by the way, I first met such a price), it looked decent, and in the reviews there was real delight about its capabilities.

So, to make the review livelier, I took my photo and tried to process it with the help of Facetune.

Given: An ordinary, completely unprocessed photo taken with a balcony wall in the background, and the Facetune app.

By clicking on the "Frame" icon, you can crop, rotate or flip the photo. I didn’t need it, and I went straight to the "Bleach" item. Basically, the tool is designed to give your smile a Hollywood whiteness, but I don't need that in this case, so I brightened the whites of the eyes a little. For the convenience of work, you can zoom in on the photo so that the pixels are visible, so it is quite possible to get your fingers into the required place in the picture. Do not forget to click the "Navigation" icon in the lower left corner from time to time to zoom out the photo and evaluate the result more globally.

In the second photo, there is a blue circle in the corner. By touching it, you can see the result before the change. It was, it was. To undo the last action, you can use the eraser. Don't worry, it won't erase the photo, just the applied actions. By clicking on the red cross, you will roll back to the last save. By the way, all your manipulations will be saved only after you click on the blue checkmark.

Using the "Details" tool, you can "tint" the eyes, for example. He kind of brightens up what is already in the photo. I was unable to apply it on the lower lashes because it brought out the red tone. But the top ones turned out quite well.

Next we'll use anti-aliasing. This tool allows you to even out skin tone, remove bruises under the eyes, fine lines and imperfections. "Soften" - evens out slightly, I liked this tool more, as the result is more natural. "Smooth" makes the photo look too glossy, in my opinion - it looks like the work of a not very professional photo editor.

If you do not understand how the tool works, tap on the "Help" icon; detailed instructions are hidden there.

We are getting to the most interesting thing - plastic! You can slightly shrink your cheeks, correct the oval of your face, or raise your eyebrows. Moreover, the tool works surprisingly well. The main thing is not to make sweeping movements with your fingers, everything is neat, millimeter-by-millimeter, otherwise you can get a completely different effect than you expected. And remember about natural facial expressions, as well as the fact that a person cannot have everything symmetrically, it looks scary.

As a finishing touch, you can use tinting. Here, too, it is important not to overdo it. For the lips, I could not find a natural shade, so I limited myself to slightly correcting the eyebrow, choosing a natural color with a pipette and painting it slightly with it.

You can also blur the background and add all kinds of frames and filters, textures and lens effects to the finished photo.

We save the finished photo to an album or immediately post it to one of the social networks.

I liked the Facetune app. Everything is intuitive, it works great. But it is important to stop in time and not to overdo it with processing, as I did. For some reason, I additionally applied anti-aliasing for the hair, and the photo turned out to be well, very "overblurred", Instagram will laugh. But I think that for the first time it's quite good for myself, I will hone my skills. And if you know how to use Photoshop a little, then you can surely be able to perfectly process pictures in Facetune.

All goodness and beautiful selfies!