Most Instagram users probably have noticed, a recent trend, while scrolling through Instagram, to be more specific, stories shared by their friends or even some celebrities with images looking almost exactly like them. At least in my case, it was basically every second post. Out of curiosity, I had to check what is this all about.
All answers led to the same place, which was Lensa AI: Photo & Video Editor application, produced by Prisma Labs and released in 2018 in order to edit photos and videos. The app gained so much popularity in late November 2022 due to introducing a new feature ,,Magic Avatars”. According to the creators ,,Powerful AI will generate a ton of mind-blowing avatars based on your identity and various styles”. I have decided to try it myself and the outcome was various. After downloading the app and selecting the option ,,Magic Avatars”, we need to upload 10-20 of our photos. For the best possible results, we should import pictures with variety of backgrounds and facial expressions and should avoid group shots, covered face and monotonous pictures. Then we select a gender and head to the checkout. The application offers us 3 options: 50 unique avatars (5 variations of 10 styles) for 23,99zł, 100 unique avatars (10 variations of 10 styles) for 34,99zł and 200 unique avatars (20 variations of 10 styles) for 44,99zł. After the purchase, we get the notification that work is in progress and it shows us the estimated time. In my case it was something about 15 minutes and I had my avatars ready in 10 different styles, which where Super Hero, Stylish, Mystical, Sci-fi, Astronaut, Anime, Adventure, Cyborg, Cosmic and Rock Star. As I mentioned before the outcome varied, some of them were looking exactly like me, some were close, but in a few facial features were not right, for example, some of them had different shapes of the head, and some did not even look like human beings. Some of them looked like creatures with creepy faces and three arms. For sure the best one in my opinion was the Cosmic style, which had the most realistic face with almost every detail visible and beautiful colorful space in the background. I think this application is a lot of fun for people who are looking for their potential profile picture in the social media or just like to have their pictures edited in some cool and never seen before way.