What is the best face app?

BigAl232 · Post by **BigAl232** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:44 am

Pretty new here. I just recently ordered my first two new dolls after months of researching them and reading many of the forums. If everything goes well they should be here on Wednesday November 9th. I definitely love the photography end, and I'm very excited to start posting my two girls for people to look at. I think I'll be very happy with my choices. So I'm sure I'm about to open a whole can of worms here but I'm wondering what is the best face app for dolls? I want to give them great facial expressions like many of the people on here does. Hopefully someone can lead me into the right direction.

ZombieWinter · Post by **ZombieWinter** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:59 am

IMO,

Paid: FaceApp Pro
Free: SNOW

Stocking_Hunter · Post by **Stocking_Hunter** » Sun Jun 11, 2023 10:33 pm

Are there any apps that are directly Windows native apps and not mobile device based?

I am aware of how to use the Android APK emulator... Just not interested.

cryptid85 · Post by **cryptid85** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:39 pm

Stocking_Hunter wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 10:33 pm Are there any apps that are directly Windows native apps and not mobile device based?

I am aware of how to use the Android APK emulator... Just not interested.

I tried several on iOS and none even compared to FaceApp... I was also unable to find anything for Windows either, which is what I really wanted so I could do things more in bulk. I'll be following along here to see if anyone else suggest anything.

Oscar DeBarataria · Post by **Oscar DeBarataria** » Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:35 am

If you don't mind spending a little time working with photos, what I would recommend, along with FaceApp, is another app called Revive

What it does is take your image and run it through an AI simulation of somebody singing a song or saying a famous movie/TV line or something, and it spits out a 10 or 20 second video. It's kind of a dumb app, but as a facial expression generator for dolls it's pure gold.

But like gold it can't just be mined, it has to be processed.

So I'd recommend three apps. Get Revive, get a video to still app (Photoshop does fine for this, and so does Lightroom, but I use an app called Video To Images for ease of use), and finally get an AI image enhancer app. Gigapixel AI is really good, but I use PixelUp because it's easy.

And the process, which you can get down to a very easy one with a little practice, is to take your source image - a picture of your doll - and put it through Revive to generate your video (try the James Brown "I Feel Good" one first; it's great!), then export the frames you like which have the best expressions you want to show off, and finally push them through PixelUp.

As an added step, you can wash some of the finished products from PixelUp back through FaceApp and get some really amazing results. If I want to apply makeup or other effects to my doll's pics I'll usually wash the source image through FaceApp first, so the lipstick is uniform throughout all my shots for example, but then I'll go back through FaceApp at the end - because a FaceApp smile from a Revive facial expression will look completely different than from a neutral doll face. And the range you can generate is...not quite infinite, but awfully close.

Hope that helps. Happy shooting (and apping)!

Socratus · Post by **Socratus** » Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:57 am

Oscar DeBarataria wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:35 am If you don't mind spending a little time working with photos, what I would recommend, along with FaceApp, is another app called Revive

What it does is take your image and run it through an AI simulation of somebody singing a song or saying a famous movie/TV line or something, and it spits out a 10 or 20 second video. It's kind of a dumb app, but as a facial expression generator for dolls it's pure gold.

But like gold it can't just be mined, it has to be processed.

So I'd recommend three apps. Get Revive, get a video to still app (Photoshop does fine for this, and so does Lightroom, but I use an app called Video To Images for ease of use), and finally get an AI image enhancer app. Gigapixel AI is really good, but I use PixelUp because it's easy.

And the process, which you can get down to a very easy one with a little practice, is to take your source image - a picture of your doll - and put it through Revive to generate your video (try the James Brown "I Feel Good" one first; it's great!), then export the frames you like which have the best expressions you want to show off, and finally push them through PixelUp.

As an added step, you can wash some of the finished products from PixelUp back through FaceApp and get some really amazing results. If I want to apply makeup or other effects to my doll's pics I'll usually wash the source image through FaceApp first, so the lipstick is uniform throughout all my shots for example, but then I'll go back through FaceApp at the end - because a FaceApp smile from a Revive facial expression will look completely different than from a neutral doll face. And the range you can generate is...not quite infinite, but awfully close.

Hope that helps. Happy shooting (and apping)!

This is good info. Thanks.