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Facetune is a photo and video editing application used to edit, enhance, and retouch photos on a user's
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or Android device created by Lightricks. The app is often used for
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editing. The app implements a number of beauty filters allowing users apply edits such as teeth whitening, removal of blemishes, smoothing out skin, correcting bad lighting, contouring and adding makeup. Users can choose from a variety of filters, lighting, textures, contrast, and frame options. Facetune2 was launched in November 2016. Editing tools include realistic facial editing (changing facial expressions, for instance) and the ability to re-light a subject after the photo has been taken. It also has the ability to change the background of the photo, live selfie editing, more makeup options and also add glitter. Users can share the images created with this app on a variety of social networking services. Since 2022, Facetune2 and Facetune Video, were merged into one app and reverted back to the name Facetune.


History

Facetune was first released in March 2013. Before the launch of Facetune 2, it was sold as an app, cost $3.99 per download. It shifted to a subscription based model in 2016. Facetune2 is a free download but offers a subscription option that provides unlimited access to all features and content. Facetune enables users to remove blemishes, improve complexions and perform other manipulations on their photos which could previously only be performed by Photoshop on a desktop computer. The Facetune app is being used as a Facebook case study on user acquisition. It was also named Apple's #4 best-selling paid app in 2016 In May 2019, Facetune 2 launched on Android. Within a year of its release, the app ranked #1 in the photo & video category in 120 countries and reached the #1 paid app in over 150 countries (as of June 2019). It was named one of App Store's Best of 2013. and was Apple's most downloaded paid app in 2017. It has been downloaded over 60 million times. It was awarded Google Play's best app of 2014. The Facetune App was recognized by publications such as ''The New York Times'', ''USA Today'', the ''NY Daily News'', ''The Huffington Post'' and ''Mashable''. Celebrities like
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have discussed their enthusiasm for using Facetune to fine-tune their selfies. It has become popular among the lifestyle and influencer community on
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, with figures such as James Charles, Nikita Dragun, Tana Mongeau as well as the LGBTQ community. The app developers participated in a special panel in DragCon LA 2018 and also sponsored one of the episodes in Season 11 of ''
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''. Sarah Hyland admitted to using Facetune on her Instagram pictures.


Editing features


Facetune

The app was released in 2013, and was unique on the marketplace. *Retouching: users can smooth their skin to make it appear airbrushed, whiten their teeth, reshape their face, and sharpen the images around the eyes *Lighting: users can readjust how lighting hits their face, altering the colours and shadows of the image. *Artistic: adjust the backgrounds and add novelty filters.


Facetune2

Released in 2016, Facetune2 included sliders for modification of the intensity of the portrait editing feature, as well as a one tap fix, which was not available in the original Facetune. * Retouching: tools include the ability to smooth skin, swipe over blemishes and wrinkles, fix redeye, whiten teeth, add a glow, conceal dark circles, matte shiny skin, and refine facial features in terms of both size and proportion. * Artistic: tools include adjusting, blending and replacing photo backgrounds behind the subject, and adding from a menu of dramatic to subtle mood filters. Special effects include the chromatic Prism and other effects via the LightFX tool, Glitter, and Paint to add makeup, contouring or adding Neon lighting. One can also change the background of the picture. * Photography: a darkroom feature includes adjustment tools like Structure and Saturation. Users can also remove shadows or glare and Relight to mimic studio lighting


Facetune Video

Released in 2020, Lightricks offered an app called Facetune Video allowing users to create the same know Facetune effects for Videos.


Facetune

In 2022, Lightricks combined Facetune2 and Facetune video, and renamed the app back to Facetune, and added new features in addition to already popular tools: * Makeup tool, allowing users to create full makeup looks * AI based Enhance tool, for automatically retouching photos * Remove object tool, allowing users to remove objects and unwanted elements from photos


Development

Facetune was created by Lightricks, an
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-based startup company established by five entrepreneurs. Lightricks builds photo and video editing applications for smartphones, which are focused on content creation. The company is based in the
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, with offices in
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. Lightricks is the developer of LTEngine, an
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engine designed for mobile platforms, which was used in Facetune.


Criticism

Selfie-enhancing and other photo editing apps have been criticized for encouraging users to
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or pretend to be someone else on the internet, especially on social networking platforms. This motivation to seek "perfection" is also seen as undermining self and body confidence, particularly in younger users. The increased use of body and facial reshaping applications such as
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and Facetune has been identified as a potential cause of body dysmorphia.
2020 study
reveals the impacts of Facetune and how it is instilling and encouraging people's desires to under go cosmetic surgery. Recently, a phenomenon referred to as " Snapchat dysmorphia" has been used to describe people who request surgery to look like the edited version of themselves as they appear through Snapchat Filters.


Ethical concerns

Image editing, especially with Facetune, has created debates regarding the ethical concerns. Editing can be used unethically to manipulate people’s perceptions and perpetuate insecurity. Some people or industries may exploit editing to create unattainable ideals, particularly in fashion and beauty industries, where heavily edited images set unrealistic standards for people to follow.


See also

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Image editing Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are Digital photography, digital photographs, traditional Photographic processing, photo-chemical photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known ...


References


External links

*{{official website, http://www.lightricks.com/
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