Lensa: photo editor & AI art

The core of the Lensa app is a shelf of looks with names like Golden Hour, Halo Flash, Disposable and G7X. Each one applies a full grade plus lighting and texture changes in a single tap, and you can dial the strength back if it goes too far. The catalogue follows whatever is trending on social, which is why the app feels current rather than dated.

Hollywood, Hair Boost and Makeup sit in a separate beauty toolkit. These tools even out skin, add light to the face and tidy hair without flattening the features that make a face recognisable. That distinction matters: older selfie editors blurred everything into a mask, and most people can spot the result instantly.

Brush over something you want gone and the AI fills the gap with matching background. It handles photobombers, signs, crowds, power lines and fairly large objects, not only small spots. Edges can smear when the removed object covers a strong pattern, so check the result at full size before posting.

The photo enhancer upscales a tight crop and rebuilds detail lost to low resolution or bad indoor lighting. It works best on photos that are soft rather than destroyed. If a shot is badly out of focus or blown out, no amount of upscaling brings the data back.

Upload a single selfie and Lensa restyles your hair into a different cut while keeping the same face. It is a practical use of the same generation stack behind the avatar packs, and it answers a question people usually resolve by risk or by asking a friend.

The feature that made Lensa a household name in 2022 still exists as a paid extra. You upload a set of selfies and get stylised portraits across several art directions, from painted to fantasy, which is why people treat it as an AI art generator as much as an editor. These run on credit packs rather than the standard subscription, because each batch costs real GPU time to render.