How to Face Swap Photos with AI: Free Tools & Step-by-Step Guide (2025)

Want to see yourself as a movie star in a poster, replace your face in a family photo, or want to see yourself as a meme element? With AI face swap tools, you can do all that in just a few clicks. 

AI face swap tools let you put your face on someone else’s body. Many people use these tools to create memes. These tools can generate social media posters and other creative content. 

AI face swaps are seamless and accurate. You can experiment with different photos and see what the outcome is. It takes a few seconds to get face swap results with these tools (better than manual editing). 

But how to face swap two photos using AI? In this article, we will guide you through how you can use AI tools to face swap two images. So, let’s dive in.

How Does AI Face Swap Work?

AI Face Swap is nothing more than technology working behind it. AI face swap tools use facial recognition algorithms to detect faces. The algorithm detects facial features like nose, mouth, jawline, eyes, cheekbones, etc., on both the face image and the target images.

Once finished, the tool then matches the features and adjusts angles to resemble the target image. The tool then blends the face, matching the skin tone, lighting, and texture. This ensures that the face swap looks natural and realistic. 

AI Face Swap makes the work easier compared to the manual way. With the manual way, you need editing skills, plus it’s time-consuming. Also, making the images realistic is difficult. AI face swap tools handle everything with ease. It’s fast, no editing skills are required, plus the images look realistic with little effort. 

Step-by-Step Guide to Face Swap Two Photos Using AI

There are many face swap tools available online, but for this guide, we are going with Fotor. It is a free AI tool that lets you swap faces in your photos. Fotor is quite easy to use; you need to upload the original photo and the target photo. Once you do that, the tool will swap the face in the target photo. Here’s the step-by-step guide to using Fotor to face swap two photos:  

Step 1: Select Your Photos

The first step in the process is to select your photos. You need to select these two photos:

• Face Image– This will be your original image with your face.
• Target Image– The Target image is the image on which you want to swap your face.

Note- You must select the right photo for proper face swap. Choose high-quality photos to avoid blurry output.   

Step 2: Upload the Images to the AI Tool

Once you have selected the images, it’s time to upload them to the tool. The steps given below will guide you on how you can upload your images to the Fotor Face Swapper:

1. Head over to the Fotor Face Swapper tool on your browser. 
2. Here, in the top right corner, click on Log In.

3. You will now get four options here:
   • Continue with Google
   • Continue with Facebook
   • Continue with Apple
   • Continue with Email

4. You can choose any of the above methods for signing in. For this guide, I am going with Continue with Google.
5. After this, select your Google account to sign in to the tool.
6. Now, after this, click on the Upload Face Image option.

7. From the menu, select From Computer.

8. Now, select your Face Image.

9. After this, click on the Upload Target Image option.

10. Now, select the option saying From Computer.

11. Select the Target Image to continue.

Step 3: Swap Faces

Now, once you have uploaded the image, it’s time to face swap it. For this, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Swap Button (takes 2 credits for face swap).

2. Now, the tool will analyze the image.
3. Face swap may take a few minutes, so wait until then.
4. Once the face swap is done, you will see the results on your screen.
5. You can click on the Download button to download the image to your system.

6. This will download the image in JPG format.

Upon registration, you get 8 credits with the free account. Fotor takes up 2 credits for one face swap, so you need to have enough credits if you want to do a face swap in multiple images. 

There’s one workaround for it; one face swap is free without a login. So you can open Fotor in incognito/private mode on your browser and do the face swap. Do the same every time you want to face swap, and you won’t need credits or an account login. 

Step 4: Edit the Image 

Fotor gives you the option of editing the image once the face swap is done. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Click on the Edit button in the top-left corner of the image.

2. You will now get various options to edit, such as:
   • Magic Eraser– You can use this tool to erase the image background or any unwanted objects from the image.
   • AI Upscaler– If the final image is of poor quality, then you can use this option to upscale your image.
   • Face Unblur– This option can be used to unblur the face in the image.
   • AI Replace– Use this option if you want to replace some object with another.
   • AI Hairstyle– This option uses AI to get the virtual hairstyle on the target image.
   • AI Clothes Changer– Use this option if you want to change the clothes of the person in the image.
3. For now, let’s go with AI Upscaler. You can select any option to edit.

4. On the next page, click on the drop-down menu under Mode.

5. You will now get two options:
   • Standard– To upscale, denoise, and enhance your images.
   • Advanced– For pro-grade detail reconstruction.
6. For now, let’s select Standard.

7. Once done, click on the Generate button.

8. Now, this will start upscaling the image.
9. Once the image is ready, click on the Download button to download it.

Once you have the face swap images ready, you can use them on social media or anywhere you want to.

Final Outputs

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Alternative to Fotor

If you don’t want to use Fotor, then you can go for Ideogram. With Ideogram, you can upload your face photo, and then enter the prompt for image generation. Not exactly a face swap, but there’s a workaround for it. Here’s how you can use it.

1. Generate Prompt Using ChatGPT

At first, you will need a prompt that you can use with Ideogram. You will have to upload your target image to ChatGPT and generate the image description. You can later upload the description/prompt to Ideogram along with the face image to generate face swap image. You can follow the steps given below to generate a prompt using ChatGPT:

1. First of all, you need to have the Target Image, like we did for Fotor.
2. Once you have the Target Image, head over to the ChatGPT site on your browser.
3. Here, enter the following prompt:
   1. I will be making an image using Ideogram, so I want you to describe the image I upload in bullet points. Also, I will be using my own face for it, so describe the image accordingly.

4. Once you type the prompt, click on the + button.

5. Now, click on Add Photos & Files.

6. After this, select the Target Image and upload it to ChatGPT.

7. Once you do this, click on the icon you see in the image below.

8. Now, ChatGPT will generate the prompt for the Ideogram.

9. Copy the prompt generated by ChatGPT.

2. Generate Results Using Ideogram

Once you have your prompt and the face image, it’s time to use them on Ideogram to generate the desired results. Here’s how that can be done:

1. On your browser, head over to the Ideogram Character site.
2. Here, you will get two options for sign-in:
   1. Continue with Google
   2. Continue with Apple
3. You can go ahead with any of the above methods, but for now, let’s select Continue with Google.

4. Select your Google account to continue.
5. After this, click on the Upload button.

6. Select your Face Image to continue.

7. After this, in the text prompt, paste the prompt you copied from ChatGPT.

7. Now, click on this option that you see in the image below.

9. After this, select the aspect ratio for the image. For this one, I am going with the default option, i.e., 16:9.

10. Once done, click on the Generate button, and this will start generating the image.

11. You will get four images as a result.

12. Select the image you find the best.
13. Now, click on the Download button, and the image will be downloaded.

Note- Ideogram gives you 10 character generation credits per week. 1 credit= 4 images, so you can generate 40 images per week.

Output

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Tips for Better Results

AI face swaps can often be inaccurate; it’s difficult to get realistic results in one go from such tools. Here are some tips that you can follow for better face swap results:

1. Use High Quality Images– First, make sure the images you are using are high quality. If the photos you upload are blurry or of low resolution, then you may not get good results from the tool.
2. Choose Front-Facing Photos – For better results, ensure that both the face image and target image have faces looking straight ahead.
3. Avoid Cluttered Images– Don’t use images with too many objects and people.
4. Try Multiple Attempts– If you don’t get the desired results in one go, then try multiple times. Use face images with variations in every attempt.
5. Simple Background– Ensure the face image has a simple background so AI can recognize your face.
6. Images with Good Lighting– Make sure the subject in the images is well-lit. Avoid dark images or images with too bright background.

Conclusion

AI tools make face swapping simple. With Fotor, you can swap two faces within a few seconds with no editing skills required. Whether you are creating meme photos, making thumbnails, seeing yourself as historical figures or fictional characters, or just using the images for fun, Fotor does it all.

If you use Ideogram, then that’s not going to generate exact results. But you can use it to create somewhat similar images, like that of the target one, with your own face image.

So, what are you waiting for? Try AI face swapping now. Also, let us know how your face swap turned out in the comments below.

Have any queries? Drop them in the comments, too. We’ll be happy to assist you with your queries.  

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