You can make a photo come alive with TikTok's new AI tool - here's how

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That photograph you'd similar to stock connected TikTok seems a spot blah. If lone determination were immoderate mode you could marque it much exciting, dynamic, and visual. You can, acknowledgment to a caller AI-powered image-to-video diagnostic known arsenic AI Alive.

Unveiled connected Tuesday, AI Alive creates a little video clip retired of immoderate inactive photo. Available wrong TikTok's Story Camera, the AI tool taps into AI to automatically adhd the close punctual and alteration your photo. After the video is generated, you tin preview it and past station it to your communicative for anyone connected TikTok to watch.

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"As TikTok's archetypal AI-driven image-to-video instauration feature, AI Alive places creativity power straight successful your hands," TikTok said successful a quality release. "Imagine capturing a serene sunset photograph and effortlessly turning it into a cinematic clip: the entity gradually shifts hues, clouds drift lazily, and ambient sounds of waves crashing successful the region bring the country to life. Or instrumentality a radical selfie and bring it to beingness arsenic a lively, animated representation that highlights the subtle gestures and expressions of friends oregon family. AI Alive unlocks these originative possibilities, taking mundane contented to the adjacent level."

Sounds cool. 

How does AI Alive work?

First, occurrence up the TikTok app for iOS oregon Android. 

1. From there, you tin commencement AI Alive from either your inbox oregon Profile screen. Depending connected which surface you choose, pat the icon connected the bottommost toolbar for Inbox oregon Profile.
2. Tap the positive icon connected your illustration picture. At the bottommost of the "Add to Story" screen, crook connected the power for Alive. Navigate done your photograph room and prime the photograph you privation to use.
3. By default, the punctual is automatically generated to say: "Make this photograph travel alive." Tap the arrow to taxable it.
4. The translation kicks off. At the aforesaid time, TikTok chooses a opus clip oregon different audio based connected the taxable oregon contented of your photo. A timer pops up to amusement you however agelong the video volition instrumentality to appear.
5. To alteration the audio and set oregon adhd different elements, pat 1 of the icons connected the right. As with immoderate communicative you make successful TikTok, you're capable to adhd text, stickers, oregon filters.
6. When ready, pat Your Story to people your video for each the satellite (at slightest those of it connected TikTok) to see.

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET

My experience

I tried AI Alive with a fewer antithetic photos to spot however it worked. 

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With a selfie, the animation showed my eyes opening and closing. In a photograph of a turtle, the animation showed him opening and closing his mouth, displaying his tiny teeth. I besides transformed a photograph of my favourite subject, namely my cat, Mr. Giggles. Here, the AI made his eyes blink successful a cute feline way.

AI Alive is simply a amusive and originative instrumentality that cleverly uses AI to spice up your photos. There's lone 1 drawback: TikTok limits you to 5 per day, truthful beryllium cautious however often you usage it.

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