Face Swap: how to use the Snapchat filter to “swap faces”

Snapchat offers a variety of filters and tools to create creative and interactive videos. The app not only allows you to share the clips on that platform, but you can also download the content to share on other social networks, messaging services or simply to have it on your mobile.

One of the many filters it has is the one known as Face Swap that allows you to exchange faces. In fact, it generates a kind of “digital mesh” between two faces. The tool is not new, but you may not know it. If that is the case, you can see the step by step to use it in the video included in this note, as well as in the text that appears below.

Those days of quarantine, knowing some of these digital tools can be useful for those looking to unleash their creativity, learn something new or simply entertain themselves for a while.

To use this filter, you have to enter Snapchat, and then click on the magnifying glass that appears next to the record button to find the effect you are looking for, which, in this case, is the “face swap”. It will be seen that there are some preloaded masks and then the photos of faces that the system identifies appear in the cell phone’s image gallery.

When Face Swap is selected, the preloaded face images are seen in the cell phone’s image gallery.

You have to choose the image of the face with which you want to Face Swap and then press the button to record a video or take a photo. Once done, it can be edited by adding text or other items and then hitting the share button to get it posted on Snapchat .

You can also click on the icon of the download button that appears at the bottom to have a copy of that video in the gallery of the cell phone and from there share it on other platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, or whatever, if that is the case. want.

To download the photo or video, click on the download icon (the white arrow) located in the lower left margin.

During these times of quarantine, an increase in internet traffic was identified: in Argentina, for example, consumption of the fixed network increased up to 38% while the mobile network registered an increase of up to 14% , a week after quarantine was implemented.

The increase responds not only to teleworking but also to the increase in consumption of news and entertainment. Netflix, for example, added more than 15 million new subscribers , which is double its growth forecast for this quarter.

As a result of social distancing, the use of video calling solutions increased . In turn, users spend more time on social media to keep in touch with friends, as well as to entertain themselves.

In this context, it can be seen that users are seeking to develop new digital skills, to remain linked with the outside world, in a virtual way.

That is why the popularity of the use of, video editing apps and social networks has grown, which has skins, filters and many other options to generate fun and creative clips. In these uncertain times, humor is a good refuge: there are multiple studies and research that underline the importance of laughter in times of crisis .