You can use the Lensa AI app to turn your photos into artistic portraits

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When scrolling through Instagram this weekend, I noticed an unusual trend throughout my feed – artistic renditions of my friends' selfies. The credit for these masterpieces is the Lensa AI app, and here is how you can use it to get your own portraits. 

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Lensa AI is a free-to-download, photo-editing app that launched in 2018 and is available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 

Wait everyone is PAYING for those ai generated portraits?? With MONEY???

— caitie delaney (@caitiedelaney) December 4, 2022

Once you have made your payment, you are prompted to submit 10 to 20 selfies with the warning that there is no guarantee that all of the renderings will be good. The app advises you to submit as many selfies as you can to eliminate as much error as possible. 

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