Practical field guides

Make better face swaps before you spend credits

These guides turn the variables that most affect a face swap into repeatable checks. Choose a workflow, prepare the media, and diagnose the result without guessing.

By DeepSwapAI Product TeamReviewed July 28, 2026Guide library

Start with the constraint you need to solve

Each guide is written around a real production decision: selecting inputs, preparing motion, keeping a photo set consistent, or deciding whether media is safe to upload and share.

Troubleshooting

Face swap not working?

Separate upload, account, queue, failed-task, and output-quality problems with a local decision tree before retrying.

Open the decision tree

Two-photo workflow

How to deep face swap two photos online

Put the scene in Source Photo and identity in Target Face, then check pose, lighting, hair, occlusion, and edges.

Open the step-by-step guide

Group photos

Multiple face swap

Detect, select, and map several identities in one group photo without losing track of who replaces whom.

Open the group-photo guide

Motion

Video face swap

Prepare clips for turns, movement, blur, occlusion, continuity, and a predictable credit estimate.

Open the video guide

Photo sets

Batch face swap

Keep identity, framing, light, and quality-control decisions consistent across multiple images.

Open the batch guide

Short loops

GIF face swap

Scout loop seams, fast turns, blur, occlusion, and frame-to-frame identity changes before processing.

Open the GIF guide

Responsible use

Privacy and consent

Build a local consent and disclosure record, then check permission, retention, account controls, and sharing risks before upload.

Open the consent planner

Image exports

Trial watermark and paid unlock

See exactly when an image displays the complete account email, what a purchase changes, and why an old file stays unchanged.

Open the watermark guide

Verified rewards

Free credits, check-ins, shares, and referrals

See the exact +1-credit rules, UTC resets, referral cap, duplicate protection, and trial image export boundary.

Open the free-credit guide

Choose a workflow

Batch vs multiple face swap

Choose between multiple output images and mapped replacements inside one group photo using current limits and costs.

Compare the workflows

Private preflight

Image input readiness checker

Measure dimensions, luminance, contrast, clipping, and edge detail locally without uploading the selected image.

Open the local checker

Original research

Controlled input benchmark

Inspect six downloadable variants, exact transformations, formulas, measurements, hashes, and evidence limits.

Review the benchmark

Output evaluation

Face swap quality scorecard

Rate identity, blend, pose, lighting, occlusion, technical integrity, and motion stability with one transparent rubric.

Open the scorecard

Technical explainer

How AI face swap works

Follow detection, alignment, identity transfer, target preservation, synthesis, blending, and video consistency through primary research.

Read the technical explainer

Technical reference

AI face swap glossary

Read 24 source-cited definitions for identity transfer, target preservation, video consistency, evaluation metrics, and provenance.

Open the technical glossary

Developer API

Automate five face-swap workflows

Create a Bearer key, submit multipart media, poll task status, and verify exact limits and credit rules against the OpenAPI contract.

Open the API documentation

Developer architecture

Production face swap pipeline

Plan authorization, media validation, asynchronous task states, retries, credit settlement, result delivery, deletion, and observability.

Open the architecture guide

Four checks that prevent most avoidable failures

01

Use a clear identity reference

Choose a sharp, unobstructed face with enough detail around the eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, and skin texture.

02

Match pose and expression

A reference that resembles the target angle and expression gives the model fewer conflicting cues to resolve.

03

Inspect the difficult frames

For video and GIF work, review fast turns, hands over the face, profile views, blur, and lighting transitions.

04

Test before scaling

Validate one representative image or a short clip before committing a full batch or longer video.

Useful guidance without invented benchmarks

The Product Team derives these checks from the current DeepSwapAI workflows and the observable media variables users can control. Quality still varies by input, and no guide can guarantee a specific output.

Current product behavior

Workflow costs, upload limits, retention, and watermark rules are checked against the current product and documented in the verification methodology.

Prepare one representative input

Start with the face swap quality guide, then choose the exact workflow and review its cost, privacy, and image-export rules.

Read the quality guide