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Photo retake guide
Fix squinting eyes in a photo.
Golden hour, a great view, and eyes screwed up against the sun. Upload the photo and the retake relaxes the eyes. The sunset stays.
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Squinting into the sunset
Original
Why you squint in sunny photos
Bright light makes eyes narrow on their own, and facing the sun to get the sky in the shot makes it worse. The result is the classic golden-hour photo with half-shut eyes and a tight smile.
A retake keeps the light and the sky and redraws only the eyes and the expression around them. The prompt asks it to keep the lighting and exposure as they are, so the warm light on your face should stay.
- Tick "Stop squinting". Add "Natural smile" if the smile went tight too, and "Open eyes" if they are almost shut.
- Use the photo where the face is big enough. A retake works best when the face is not tiny in the frame.
- Name the person if others are in the shot. Only that person's eyes change.
- Check the eyes at full size. Make sure the eye colour and the light in the eyes still look like you. If not, generate again.
What a retake fixes
Hover or tap a photo to see Take 1. Each Take 2 is a real GPT Image 2.5 retake of Take 1. The people shown are AI-generated.
Only the face you pick changes
Name who to fix and the prompt asks for everyone else to stay as they were. Move the lens over the photo to see Take 1 underneath.
- FIXEDThe woman in the middle
- KEPTHer two friends, the table, the candles and the framing
- PROMPT“Change only the facial expression of the woman in the middle”
Three steps. You press Generate.
The prompt is written for you, and you can read it and change it in Create before anything runs.
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Upload the photo
Any photo you'd keep if it weren't for the face. It waits on your device until you continue.
02
Pick what to fix
Tap what's wrong. For a group photo, say who. That becomes your prompt.
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Generate in Create
Create opens with your photo attached, GPT Image 2.5 selected and the prompt filled in.
Photo retake guides
Every guide opens the same tool with the right fixes already picked.
AI Photo Retake
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Fix closed eyes in a photo
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Make any photo photogenic
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Retake AI alternative on the web
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Fix one face in a group photo
/photo-retake/fix-face-in-group-photo
Fix squinting eyes in a photo
/photo-retake/fix-squinting-in-photo
Why you're "not photogenic" in candid photos
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How to fix a blink in a photo: Best Take, Facetune Retake and AI retakes compared
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Questions
Can AI fix squinting in a photo?
Yes. Tick "Stop squinting" and the retake relaxes the eyes, while the prompt keeps the light, the sky and the framing as they are.
Will it keep my eye colour?
The prompt asks for the same person and identity. Check the eyes at full size, and if the colour or shape drifted, generate again.
Does it darken the photo to stop the squint?
It is not meant to. The prompt asks it to keep the lighting, exposure and colours and to change only the expression.
How much does a retake cost?
One retake of a standard 4:3 phone photo costs 21 credits. Other photo shapes cost 19 to 26 credits. This page shows the price for your photo before you continue, and Create shows it again before you press Generate.
Your best take is one upload away.
Keep the moment. Fix the face.