![]() It has become popular among the lifestyle and influencer community on YouTube, with figures such as James Charles, Nikita Dragun, Tana Mongeau as well as the LGBTQ community. ![]() Celebrities like Khloé Kardashian have discussed their enthusiasm for using Facetune to fine-tune their selfies. The Facetune App was recognized by publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, the NY Daily News, The Huffington Post and Mashable. It was awarded Google Play's best app of 2014. It has been downloaded over 60 million times. and was Apple's most downloaded paid app in 2017. It was named one of App Store's Best of 2013. 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 also named Apple's #4 best-selling paid app in 2016 In May 2019, Facetune 2 launched on Android. The Facetune app is being used as a Facebook case study on user acquisition. Facetune2 is a free download but offers a subscription option that provides unlimited access to all features and content.įacetune 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. It shifted to a subscription based model in 2016. Before the launch of Facetune 2, it was sold as an app, cost $3.99 per download. History įacetune was first released in March 2013. Users can share the images created with this app on a variety of social networking services. It also has the ability to change the background of the photo, live selfie editing, more makeup options and also add glitter. 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. Users can choose from a variety of filters, lighting, textures, contrast, and frame options. ![]() 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. The app is often used for portrait and selfie editing. ![]() seems to help off-set some of the negative influences of being exposed to all of these idealised images that we have around us," she says.Facetune is a photo editing application used to edit, enhance, and retouch photos on a user's iOS or Android device created by Lightricks. "Social media literacy, that is, being more critical about what they are viewing. Rather, Paxton says that social media literacy can help to counter some of its pervasiveness. Social media, for all the distortion of reality, can also have a positive influence, allowing self and creative expression, bolster social connections and keep abreast of friends' (superior) lives. There is no need to eschew social media, burn the magazines and embrace technophobia. What is the answer when body image issues are so rife amongst adults (about 80 per cent of Australian women dislike their bodies) and teenagers (about 38 percent of teenage girls and 13 per cent of teenage boys in Australia are extremely concerned about their body image, according to the latest Mission Australia Survey)? It's not just viewing images that have been manipulated and carefully curated to present a certain image, it's the way people curate and manipulate photos of themselves in return that spawned a whole new way of keeping up with the Jones' (although Kardashians might be the more apt comparison in this instance). ![]()
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