How to Add Bright, Natural Smile to Your Photo

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How to Add Bright, Natural Smile to Your Photo

Last Updated: 2025. 04. 29

Forgot to smile before someone else has pressed the shutter button? Don’t rush to hit the Delete button. With the following AI smile filters, you can add natural-looking, bright smile to your photos. Whether you feel like fixing a family portrait, a profile, the following methods will work like miracles.

FlexClip - Transform Photo to Smile Video

In a market intermingling with good and bad AI smile filters, FlexClip offers unparalleled outputs. Trained with millions of real video tracks, FlexClip’s AI algorithm can detect your face and turn your photo into natural smile photos.

What really sets FlexClip apart is its ease of use, since AI does all the tedious animation tasks for you. The distance between a serious you and a smiling you is a simple prompt.

Showcase FlexClip AI Smile Filter Output

How to Turn a Photo into a Smile Video

Now, follow the steps below and effortlessly turn your photo into a natural smiling video. We will be using the following photo as an example.

Example Image

Step 1

Access FlexClip’s AI Image to Video tool. You don’t need to download anything to your device since it is an online tool. Turn to one of your favorite browsers on mobile or PC and get started.

AI Image to Video

Step 2

Upload a photo of yourself to FlexClip, and then enter a prompt like make this person smile while making other parts remain the same, or add a bright smile and other natural gestures to this person.

Step 3

FlexClip offers two generation modes, the professional mode and standard mode. Pick the mode that suits your needs most. As for the smile video duration, we suggest you try 5s. Hit the Generation button, you will get the smile video output within several seconds.

Turn Image to Smile Video

Feel like sticking to a still photo, FlexClip gets you! Click on the Make Edits button to access FlexClip’s editing panel. Click on the video on the timeline, hit Export Frame. A smile photo in JPG will be saved to your local folder.

Extract Frame from a Smile Video

Fotor - AI Smile Filter for Photo

Fotor offers a more straight AI smile filter. Instead of turning the whole photo into a video, Fotor detects your mouth and tweaks its shape. It doesn’t plaster a smile on your photo, it reads the face and elevates it with realism.

Here is a bonus. Fotor offers 3 smile filters. You can render among different smiles that fit all circumstances. Besides smiling, you can try different facial expressions like sad and wink.

Fotor AI Smile Filter

How to Add Smile to Photo with Fotor

Adding a smile to a photo using Fotor is super easy. Here’s what you can do with this online tool.

Step 1

Go to Fotor’s official website and click Edit a Photo. Upload a photo you feel like adding a smile.

Step 2

Move to the left sidebar, click on Beauty > AI Expression. Pick the Smile you love and hit Apply.

Apply Smile Filter to Photo Using Fotor

Step 3

Once you are satisfied with the smile photo, hit Download, save your image as JPG, PNG, etc.

FAQs About Adding Smile to Photo

1. Can I add a smile on mobile?

Absolutely. FlexClip and Fotor are online tools, but FlexClip’s AI tools are mobile-friendly while Fotor provides apps. You can add a smile on mobile with both tools.

2. Will adding a smile affect photo quality?

Slightly, but you can still retain good image quality after applying a smile filter. FlexClip and Fotor always do their best to export great outputs.

3. Can I add a smile to cartoon or AI-generated faces?

Yes, if the face structure is clear, AI tools can recognize it, even in digital portraits or cartoons.

4. How much does it take to put a smile on a photo?

Fotor is a subscription-based tool. To unlock all smile filters and remove watermarks from the photo output, you need to pay at least $2.66 per month. FlexClip, however, adopts a credit-based pricing policy, each generation costs around $0.3.