How to create the funniest and most uncomfortable face swaps, the biggest web craze since selfies
Perhaps the easiest way to start faceswapping is in Snapchat. If you're not already familiar with Snapchat filters, here's the easiest way to get started. Simply tap down on your face until a mesh overlay appears on it. That's Snapchat's facial recognition software working. It'll look like this:
Then, swipe left through all of Snapchat's filters — some are pretty fun! — until you get to the end, which is the face swapping filter.
Then, find a friend, or an inanimate object that kind of looks like a face, stand next to it and get swapping. Press the take photo button to capture a pic or hold down for video.
Although Snapchat is most likely the easiest way to swap faces, considering it's probably already installed on your phone, you do have other face swapping options, like Microsoft's new Project Murphy, a Skypebot that superimposes your face on famous people or cartoons.
Here's Bill Gates as Steve Jobs. Try it out here.
Using the software is the easy part, though. The next step is to have fun with it. Here are a few tricks:
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My dads having too much fun with snapchats face swap pic.twitter.com/N1Bug3BaG4
If you've got friends with facial hair or a beard yourself, that will certainly kick your face swaps up a notch.
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this new snapchat face swap filter is the most terrifying thing ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/Mb3xQ9sgER
Face swapping doesn't necessarily need to happen between two people. If you have a comic book or a record cover with a funny face it can create a really cool effect. Who wouldn't want to look like David Bowie?
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well the face swap filter has satisfied my desire to be Gamora, Sterling Archer and David Bowie . ? pic.twitter.com/Mj5ae39O0i
But when the algorithm can't find a face, face swapping can become nightmare fuel.
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@Snapchat pic.twitter.com/u8cJIlPySK
Try it with magazines, record covers, and your laptop's screen.
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Someone take this face swap filter away from me. pic.twitter.com/r0GAMwh0z7
Push the software to its limits! Face swapping can also work great with inanimate objects, if they resemble a face at all. Like this cookie.
Turns out, you can face swap with pretty much anything you can draw a face on.
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This new snapchat face swap thing is pretty cool pic.twitter.com/XKJ6BIbcwF
Although it can backfire.
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Not all of them went according as planned pic.twitter.com/1gR3CARAse
And triple-check to make sure there aren't random people in the shot.
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Me and my sister were trying to do face swap and this happened ???? pic.twitter.com/cUZZIpDW0x
Sometimes face swapping algorithms see faces where there aren't any, like in the rim of a car.
Sometimes if you face swap famous duos, like Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, it reveals that the two look more similarly than you’d expect.
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Take off your glasses first: sometimes Snapchat's algorithms can't deal with glasses, but other times it creates funky new frames.
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10 out of 10 would bang pic.twitter.com/s7bDvYqtLg
It's even more fun when you replace your face with another celebrity. Here's Jay-Z and Beyonce.
And it's always fun to be able to face swap with your pets.
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When you face swap with your cat pic.twitter.com/rx8pB7McTa
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