Make Me Look Younger: A Whole Face, Not Just Smoother Skin
To make me look younger, open Create photo, add one sharp picture of your face and describe the age you want. An AI model redraws the face as a younger version of you, rather than blurring wrinkles away.
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Age on a face lives in several places at once: the jawline, how full the cheeks are, skin density, the color of the lips, the thickness of the brows. This page covers what changes together, how far you can push it before the person stops looking like you, and how de-aging differs from retouching or restoring an old print.
Why smoothing alone looks wrong
Wipe out the lines and keep everything else, and you get the same face with a plastic finish. Youth reads in geometry: higher cheekbones, a tighter oval, less shadow under the eyes, darker brows and lashes, fuller lips. When you ask a generative model for a younger age, it rebuilds these signs together, so the shot reads as an earlier year of your life. The trade-off is that likeness holds less firmly than with a small spot fix.
How many years to take off
Five to ten years usually looks natural: your features stay recognizable and mostly skin tone and firmness change. Ask for twenty and the model starts guessing details your photo never showed, like chin shape, hairline or teeth. It has no idea how you looked at twenty, so it invents a plausible version. Try two or three runs with different steps and keep the one where you still look like yourself.
Writing the request on Create photo
Attach a close, well-lit picture where your face fills much of the frame. In the text, state the target age and what must stay: eye color, face shape, hairstyle, expression, background. Seedream 4.5 is a sensible model for early tries, and GPT Image 2.5 is worth a run when you want another take on the same request. Every model displays its star cost next to its name before you press run.
Not retouching and not restoration
Retouching cleans flaws in the shot, such as blemishes, glare or redness, and leaves your age alone. Restoration repairs a damaged print: creases, scratches, faded color. Restoration templates in the grid deliberately hold the sitter's age as it was, which makes them the right pick for archive portraits. De-aging changes the person, so treat it as a playful version, not a record.
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FAQ
Will the younger face still look like me?
With a small step, usually yes. The bigger the jump, the more the model fills in on its own, so resemblance drifts. A large, sharp, front-facing photo helps a lot, since tiny or blurry faces give it too little to hold on to. Nobody can promise an exact likeness, so compare a few runs.
Can I de-age a photo of my grandparent for the family album?
You can if they agree, but the result is an artistic guess, not a recovered picture from their youth. For an album where accuracy matters, restoring the original print is the more honest choice: it fixes the photo without changing the person in it.
Does it work on a group photo?
It works less reliably. Each face takes up only a few pixels, and the model treats them unevenly. Crop the person you want into a separate image first, run the younger version on that portrait, and only then think about placing it back into a shared picture.
Is this a younger face filter like the ones in phone apps?
Not quite. App filters blur skin and tug contours over the original pixels, so likeness stays but the look turns waxy. Here the face is drawn again from your photo as a reference, which looks more alive but can shift features slightly. Results download as regular image files.
What do I need to start, and what does a run cost?
Generating calls for an account, which is free; once its email is verified, a handful of starter stars arrive. How many stars a younger portrait takes depends on the model you choose. For several age steps in a row, top up on the Pricing page with a subscription or a one-time bundle of stars.