You can now design your own Snapchat face filters
Snapchat has released seven new templates for its Lens Studio, and integrated GIPHY into lens creations.
Snapchat has announced new features that allow creators to build their own face filters, including photo distortion and integrated GIF stickers.
The feature is available in Lens Studio, a free desktop platform launched by Snap Inc in December 2017 that allows designers to create their own lenses.
Before this update, creators were only able to build their own “world lenses”, i.e. augmented reality (AR) objects which can be used with the rear-facing camera. These new features allow creators to build face filters for “selfie” options.
Lens Studio users now also have access to GIPHY’s library of animated GIF stickers in their filters.
To promote creators’ custom lenses, Snapchat will generate a Story for public lenses; community lenses that anyone can use will be highlighted in the Discover tab for people to find.
Users can browse all public snaps posted to the Our Story feature over the past 24 hours, then swipe up on any snap to unlock the lens for themselves.
On iOS, Lenses are supported on iPhone 4S, iPod 5th generation, iPad 2nd generation and original iPad Mini devices and above. On Android, Lenses are supported on most devices with Android 4.3 and above.
