sciencetech-blog

comments

Put away the make-up and cancel the gym membership - now you can look your best online with little to no effort at all thanks to an app that lets you photoshop your face in real-time.

Beauty Mirror for iOS, created by New York-based Modiface, lets users enhance their image using an iPhone or iPad as a virtual mirror.

With various features users can nip and tuck their facial features to their heart's content - and then share the images with others.

New York-based Modiface has unveiled an app that changes your looks. Called Beauty Mirror (shown) it enables to alter your appearance on the go. The app has a number of filters and settings that can change your face. It can, for example, make you thinner or clean your skin up in photos, which can then be shared

Through live 3D face tracking the app gives users the ability to apply customisable facial, skin and anti-aging effects to every angle of their face instantly as they look into the camera.

The company claims its transformations are 'seamless' and designed to produce an improved image only noticeably edited to the user.

'Beauty Mirror is designed to give users a very natural looking modified image through the addition of subtle effects, like skin clearing and slight weight loss,' said Miriam Pettinen, director of partnerships and mobile strategy at Modiface.

'We're excited to bring an app to the marketplace that will not leave users looking very obviously edited, but instead just slightly more polished.'

Through live simulation the app updates face location and pose every 0.03 seconds as up to 14 customisable effects are applied to the face while the user looks into the camera.

Some of the effects include eye enlargement, facelift, skin clearing, acne reduction and weight loss.

Users are able to take a picture of themselves at any point or record their transformation as a video, which is then saved directly to their device for sharing on social networks.

In the coming months Beauty Mirror technology will also be integrated as filters that users will be able to apply while using video chatting programs.

The technology will also be used by several anti-aging and skin-care brands for in-store product simulation.

A number of settings (left) to retouch your face are included on the phone including cheek lift, face lift and slimming. On the right, a 'before' picture can be seen in the inset image, while the altered image is shown on the main image with noticeable slimming effects to those that have seen the original