5 Ways AI Tools Can Help You Be More Photogenic

The ability to take a good photo is something that almost everyone would like to possess. However, most people struggle with taking photos, particularly taking photos of themselves that they feel confident in.

With a large portion of our lives lived online and on display, it can feel very discouraging to have trouble taking photogenic pictures of yourself. To help you out, we’ve compiled this short list of AI tools to help you learn how to be more photogenic.

1. AI Blemish Removing Tools

Many people struggle to feel photogenic when they feel like they have a noticeable blemish on their face. This can be particularly difficult for young people who develop acne when going through puberty or who have hyperpigmentation or facial scarring.

Although these blemishes are part of what make you unique and gorgeous, it can be difficult to feel at your most confident with them, particularly if they’re short lived like acne. In these cases, AI tools can be helpful in removing blemishes from your photos.

Unlike the photo editing of yesteryear, when you’d need to manually highlight and remove each blemish with Photoshop or even cut out blemishes from printed photos, nowadays almost every phone comes with an AI filter for removing blemishes.

These filters are able to adjust the resolution of the image to obscure a variety of blemishes, such as pimples and acne, hyperpigmentation, and bags under the eyes. As AI tools have gotten more advanced, it’s become harder and harder to tell when these filters are being used.

This type of AI tool can be a great option for when you feel like you have a great outfit and location for a photo, but you just want to hide a blemish on your face or skin to be your most confident before sharing your photo.

2. AI Lighting Tools

Sometimes everything is going great for a photo and you’re all set up to take the perfect picture. And then the sun goes behind a cloud and everything you worked so hard to set up suddenly goes to waste as you feel much less photogenic.

Lighting is an extremely important part of photography. The right lighting can help to create highlights and hide shadows. It can help to establish proportions in full body shots and it can give clarity and definition to close up shots.

However, in a lot of cases, especially in natural settings, the lighting for a photo is out of your control. This is doubly true for amateur photographers who are working without big lighting rigs or in a warm studio space to create perfect lighting.

AI can be used after the photo has been taken to edit the lighting. Rather than worry about how to fix the exposure on your shot and mess around with washing out colours or darkening the background, use an AI tool to perfectly analyse and automatically enhance the lighting in every shot to bring out your best look.

3. Create AI Backgrounds

There’s nothing worse than taking the perfect photo only to realise later that you left something embarrassing out on your desk, and now the photo is completely unusable. Rather than having to create an ideal studio space everytime you want to do a photoshoot, try utilising AI technology to create your own backgrounds.

Artificial backgrounds can have advantages, like focusing the eye on the person in the image. A neutral background made with AI can also have natural backlighting, which can help to reduce shadows in the image and improve overall quality.

If you want to go ham with it, you can also have fun with your AI backgrounds and send your virtual self on amazing adventures. Just be prepared for everyone to ask you about your photos!

4. Select Photos With AI

In some situations, like online dating, having a photogenic image can be seen as super important. This can add a lot of stress onto the photography process, which often lowers self-confidence.

If you feel unphotogenic, it’s unlikely that you feel particularly confident about any of your photos, even when you worked really hard on taking them. It can be difficult to choose which photo to use, particularly when there are such high stakes as with online dating.

Luckily, AI tools have now been created to help with this issue. When you have a variety of good photos and are struggling to choose between them, you can use an AI tool like Tinder’s AI photo selector.

This tool has learned through an enormous database of photos exactly what makes a good profile picture for a dating website. So it has the ability to look through your photos and guide you in the right direction to choose a few pictures that will show off your best traits. 

5. Create New Images With AI

If after using all the other AI tools, you still can’t get a picture you’re comfortable with and feel photogenic in, then there are AI tools to help with that as well. AI image generation is a relatively new and still constantly evolving technology, but it’s developed to a point that it’s able to produce lovely photos if given enough source material.

The way this AI tool generally works is through creating a custom library of source material like photos of yourself. These photos should be a variety of types, from close up to candid to portraits to side views.

Each photo that gets added to the library helps the AI tool learn more about your image and helps it to craft a better quality novel image. Eventually, you’ll get an output of a great new picture to help you feel as photogenic as possible.

You should be sure to use pictures from a variety of angles as well as with a variety of poses. This helps the AI to have enough data to make a full image of your face and avoids any pesky issues like having regions look blurry, off, or unnatural.