Retouch a face photo
Smoother skin, whiter teeth and brighter eyes, set by sliders that start at zero. It all happens on your device.
Drop a face photo, or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. It stays on your device.
How to retouch a face photo
- Choose a photo. It opens in the photo editor with the Face tool ready, and the faces are found on your device.
- Retouch. Tap Natural retouch for a light pass, or move Smooth skin, Even tone, Reduce shine, Dark circles, Whiten teeth and Bright eyes one by one.
- Download. Compare with the original first. Every slider can go back to zero, and undo works as usual.
What each retouch slider does
- Smooth skin
- An edge-keeping smoothing on the skin only. The finest grain is put back, so pores stay and the face does not turn waxy.
- Even tone
- Moves blotchy patches of colour, such as redness around the nose, towards the skin's own colour nearby. Light and shade are left alone.
- Reduce shine
- Takes down bright, shiny spots on the forehead, nose and cheeks towards the skin around them.
- Dark circles
- Lifts the shadow under each eye towards the cheek just below it, softly, without painting over the skin's texture.
- Whiten teeth
- Inside the lips only: takes yellow out of the light, pale parts and lifts them a little. Lips, gums and tongue keep their colour.
- Bright eyes
- Clears redness from the whites of the eyes and gives the irises a little more light and colour.
Every slider starts at zero, and the strongest setting is still meant to look like the same person on a good day. For most photos, Natural retouch or a value between 20 and 40 is enough.
Makeup
Lipstick, blush, eyeliner, eyeshadow, brows and eye colour sit lower on the same panel. To start with them, open Add makeup to photo, which shows them first.
Group photos
Every face that is found gets the same settings. To change one person only, pick their face under Faces (numbered left to right); it is outlined on the photo. A face given its own settings keeps them when you change All faces later. Small faces in a full-length or group picture are looked for again, enlarged, around each head, so most of them are found too. A face turned well away can still be missed.
What happens to your photo
The face points (eyes, lips, brows, the outline of the face) are found by a face landmark model that runs in your browser. It is downloaded once from this site, with a body model that helps find small faces. Each change is then an ordinary image step placed by those points: smoothing, colour and brightness moves on soft masks. Nothing is generated or painted in from elsewhere, and the photo never leaves your device. You can also blur a face or reshape it in the same editor.
Related tools
- Photo editor: Crop, adjust, filter, add text, emoji, blur and frames, with undo.
- Add makeup to photo: Lipstick, blush, eyeliner, eyeshadow, brows and eye colour, each on its own slider.
- Blur faces: Find every face in a group photo and blur or pixelate them all in one tap.