How to touch up your selfies on iPhone

You take a selfie or selfie and there they are: pimples, wrinkles, unbalanced colors, backgrounds that look more than your own face, images too dark or too noisy”¦ Retouching photos can make a normal snapshot a great photo for social networks That is why more and more applications are integrating editing tools with which to change some of the aspects of the photograph so that everything remains nice and in place before being shared.One of these tools is Microsoft Selfie, a photography application created by the aforementioned company, and which is available to users of iPhone

This is a complete photography application focused mainly on selfies and self-portraits. With it the user not only takes the photo, but can also touch it up to improve the final result if the pose is good enough not to take a second shot. Filters, possibility to eliminate noise in photographs with low light, improve contrast and eliminate some of the skin imperfections and other qualities with which applications generally do not count.

However, what's really remarkable about Microsoft Selfie is everything you don't see in this application.And it is that it has recognition technology behind the camera, with which to establish the age of the user portrayed, their gender, their skin tone, the light of the scene of the selfie to know, in each case, what needs to be improved and which configuration offers better results.

To do this, the user just has to frame themselves and take the screenshot, like any selfie usual. After that, Microsoft Selfie presents a series of filters in the purest Instagram style, although with some notable differences. In this way the user can check filter by filter which improvements can be applied to his face to achieve the desired result. For example, you can select the filter Boost to perform exposure correction of the photograph and illuminate the entire scene and, above all, the user's face.The same happens with other filters and options that the user can check in real time.

The result appears on the screen instantly. Just switch between filters to see before and after and make sure of your choice. The Microsoft Selfie app doesn't always hit the mark when using its recognition technology, which can result in overly retouched photos , with unrealistic colors or touch-ups that are not to the user's liking. That is why it incorporates a bar at the top, next to the filters, with which you can apply a higher or lower percentage of each adjustment, thus achieving the optimal result in each shot.

After that, all that remains is to share the result through social networks or, if you prefer, save the selfie in the camera roll to be sent later through the application of your choice.

The Microsoft Selfie app is available only for iOS of completely free. It can be downloaded via App Store.