Lensa: This app turns selfies into digital art

A while ago, I found a post on Instagram about an app that can morph your regular photos into beautiful graphics.

Just like most people I decided to look into it.

This month alone, I saw many other accounts sharing images that looked to have been from the same app – Lensa AI.

Lensa AI initially launched in 2018 as just another photo editing app, however, a new feature sent them from basic to mind-boggling.
This Magic Avatar feature generates digital portraits by studying photos you feed into it.

By using a few selfies, this app can create some interesting portraits for you.

How to use Lensa AI

To get started, Lensa AI gives you a 7-day free trial to use Magic Avatar. After which you may purchase a subscription.

• Download Lensa AI from Play Store or App Store
• Tap on the Magic Avatar, then Try Now
• Accept the T&Cs and tap Continue
• Upload 10-20 selfies
• Select your gender
• View and save your art

The process of generating the finished art takes about 20 minutes.

How secure is Lensa

Uploading a few photos to an app seems pretty harmless, right?

This is not so much the case as there have been some concerns about where your photos go after uploading them.

Lensa AI says user’s photos are “erased permanently” from their servers as soon as the avatars are generated.

About 4 million people worldwide have used Lensa AI this month, that amounts to over 40 million images that will further train this AI to be better at creating digital portraits.

How does Lensa AI work

Lensa AI employs stable diffusion technology which enables the AI scan and learn from billions of images in order to create new ones.

When you upload your selfies, the AI studies them and, based on previous data, creates a remix of your initial input.
Although Lensa has gained notoriety for its otherworldly design effects, the app can perform other editing functions such as retouching and blurring.

Will A.I. dominate in 2023

I love how there’s an AI app for almost everything.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can generate text on an infinite number of topics.

DALL-E can generate image from text and a host of other AI-powered services can be used to remove the background of an image or video in less than 5 minutes.

These apps definitely make getting work done much easier for everyone.

It’s impracticable at this point to see a world without these apps. AI tools are everywhere and will continue to be.