With the excitement created by artificial intelligence in the technological landscape, it was clear that it would permeate our most common actions, such as taking selfies. Want to pose like a Roman gladiator, like you’ve attended the legendary Woodstock concert or come straight out of Japanese art? Art Selfie 2 now available in the Google Arts & Culture app.

In 2018, Google revealed the genius of an application. He compared our portraits with important paintings from history.. All you had to do was take a photo with your mobile phone for the application, called Art Selfie, to search for the most suitable painting among all museums and art galleries. Now Google has decided to revive the app with a second part loaded with generative AI.

Google’s generative AI recreates your portraits

Different styles of Art Selfie 2

Like the first version, Art Selfie 2 takes inspiration from art to deliver fun results. They use it to teach art. The tool is already integrated into the Google Arts & Culture app and it only takes a few steps to change our portraits forever.

Art Selfie 2 offers different styles related to important events in History, pictorial or cultural movements. A very special style and environment. After taking the selfie, the app allows you to choose the aspect ratio to recreate; thus, Google’s AI is responsible for creating the image based on the selfie taken.

The application adapts the face to the needs of the selection, creates a corresponding background and merges all levels to create the image. It fits perfectly with the desired style. The results from our tests were satisfactory; Art Selfie 2 is a fun app above all else without compromising on fun at all times. But you also learn.

To use this tool to create historical selfies, you must perform the following process:

• Download the Google Arts & Culture app from the Google Play Store. Free.
• Open the app and search Art Selfie 2. It is currently in the app’s header.
• Give him access to the camera so he can take your photos. You cannot upload photos from the gallery to the vehicle, you should do these right now.
• Once the photo is taken, choose the artistic style you want for your selfie. The app will be responsible for analyzing your face with artificial intelligence and creating everything else according to your choice. The process takes less than 30 seconds and requires Internet access (Art Selfie 2 uploads the image to Google Cloud servers for rendering to occur).
• When Art Selfie 2 is finished, it will show you the result on the screen; You can share or save as you wish. You can also switch between art styles without taking a new portrait because the first one still works.

We found it to be a very interesting and instructive tool, perfect for sending “adjusted” selfies to friends. Also, Google Arts & Culture is a huge app: You’ll find tons of cultural information in it.

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