AirBrush Open Eyes

AirBrush's open-eyes tool fixes a blinked photo by learning a person's real eyes from four open-eye reference photos.

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Overview

AirBrush's open-eyes tool fixes a photo where someone blinked. Instead of inventing new eyes, it learns a person's real eyes from four clear photos of them with their eyes open, then rebuilds the closed eyes to match that face. You upload the blinked shot and those reference photos. It runs on its own, with no brushing or prompts.

It works in a browser, and the same fix is in AirBrush Studio for Windows and Mac. Trying it is free. The free plan limits exports, and saving a photo costs one credit. Credits come with a subscription or as a one-time pack, and the two expire on different terms.

Key features

Opens closed or squinting eyes in a photo
Learns the real eyes from four open-eye photos you supply
Matches the opened eyes to that specific person
Runs automatically, no brushing or prompts
Also in AirBrush Studio for Windows and Mac
Part of the wider AirBrush editor from Pixocial
Free to try before you spend a credit

When to use

Use AirBrush's open-eyes tool if:

  • You have a group or portrait shot where one person blinked, and you have other photos of that person with their eyes open to supply.
  • You want the opened eyes to look like the real person, since it copies from that face rather than generating a new pair.
  • You can supply four clear, well-lit open-eye photos of the same face, which is what the tool learns from.
  • You want it done automatically, since there is no brushing or prompt writing to learn.
  • You want to test it on your own photo first, since trying it costs nothing until you save the finished file.

When NOT to use

Skip AirBrush's open-eyes tool if any of these describe you:

  • You only have the one blinked photo and no other open-eye shots of that person. The tool has no reference photos to work from, so a tool in the open and closed eyes category that generates eyes is the alternative.
  • You want to export for free. Trying it costs nothing, but the free plan limits exports and saving a photo costs one credit.
  • You need to fix a whole event of photos at once. This works one photo at a time.
  • You want to hand-paint the eyes yourself for full control. That belongs in Adobe Photoshop.

Frequently asked questions

Other tools generate new eyes. AirBrush instead learns from four photos of the same person with their eyes open, then rebuilds the closed eyes to match that real face. You have to supply those reference photos.

AirBrush states you need one photo where the eyes are closed and four clear photos where the same person's eyes are naturally open and well-lit. If you have no open-eye photos of that person, this tool is not the right one.

You can try it in a browser for free. The free plan limits exports, and saving a photo costs one credit. Credits come with a subscription or as a one-time pack, and the two expire on different terms.

It runs in a web browser. AirBrush's own guide for this tool is written for AirBrush Studio, its Windows and Mac app, so the same reference-based fix is there.

Only if you have other photos of that same person with their eyes open to feed it. Without photos of that face, it cannot open their eyes.

AirBrush states on this tool's page that your privacy is fully protected and that it does not store or share your photos. You are uploading reference photos of the same face as well as the blinked shot, so if the photos are of someone else, get their agreement first.

Alternatives to AirBrush Open Eyes

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Enhance.cam Open Eyes

Enhance.cam opens closed eyes in a photo automatically, showing you the result before you buy credits for the clean download.

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insMind Open Eyes

Brush over the closed eyes, type a prompt, and it opens them, rescuing the shot where somebody blinked.

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Fotor Open Eyes

Replaces closed eyes in a portrait with AI-generated open ones, at three opening levels.

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Media.io Open Eyes

Brush over closed eyes, type what you want, and it generates open ones, on credits rather than a subscription.

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