{"id":23057,"date":"2025-08-11T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23057"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:20:31","slug":"quick-tips-on-ideogram-face-swapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/quick-tips-on-ideogram-face-swapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick tips on Ideogram face swapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Xa9oQ7fJts&amp;t=617s\">face-swapping portion<\/a> of Jes\u00fas&#8217;s otherwise excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/a-deep-dive-into-photoshops-new-harmonize-feature\/\">demo<\/a> above made me wince: this part of Photoshop&#8217;s toolbox just hasn&#8217;t evolved in years and years. It&#8217;s especially painful for me, as I returned to Adobe in 2021 to make things like this better. Despite building some really solid tech, however, we were blocked by concerns about ethics (&#8220;What if a war criminal got access to this?&#8221;; yes, seriously). So it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe someday PS will update its face-related features (heck, for all I know they&#8217;re integrating a new API now!). In the meantime, here&#8217;s a nice 4-minute tour of how to do this (for free!) in Ideogram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ideogram Tutorial: Professional quality face swap using Magic Fill\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paK1_iip8QE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the face-swapping portion of Jes\u00fas&#8217;s otherwise excellent demo above made me wince: this part of Photoshop&#8217;s toolbox just hasn&#8217;t evolved in years and years. It&#8217;s especially painful for me, as I returned to Adobe in 2021 to make things like this better. Despite building some really solid tech, however, we were blocked by concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23065,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions\/23065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}