How to keep your face aligned in a selfie timelapse
Keep your face steady from selfie to selfie with consistent framing, automatic face alignment and small manual adjustments.
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Play back a hundred photos of the same face without aligning them and you get a shaky, jumpy video. Alignment keeps the subject in the same place in every frame, so only the change you want to show is visible.
Start with consistent photos
The less correction each photo needs, the better the result:
- Keep the same distance and height, with the phone at eye level.
- Face the camera straight on, with the same posture.
- Use similar light, ideally the same window at the same time of day.
- On a stand, use the 5- or 15-second timer to step into place.
Dayloop’s reference photo helps with all of this: your first or last photo appears as a translucent overlay in the camera so you can match it before you shoot. You can adjust its opacity.
Automatic face alignment
For selfies and portraits, face alignment detects your eyes in each photo. Dayloop then moves, scales and rotates the photo so your eyes land in the same place as in the first photo. Small differences in distance or tilt disappear.
Manual alignment
If one selfie needs a touch-up, use manual alignment to move, zoom and rotate it until your eyes match the reference photo. This is also useful when sunglasses, a turned head or a partly hidden face prevent automatic detection.
When to skip alignment
If your iPhone stayed on a fixed tripod for every photo, the frames are already aligned. Choose no alignment and Dayloop leaves them as they are.
Common problems
- The face isn’t detected. Sunglasses, profile shots or a face partly out of frame can prevent detection. Use manual alignment for those photos.
- Several people in the photo. Dayloop asks which person to align, or lets you skip it.
- Flickering light. Alignment fixes position, not exposure. Keep your light source consistent.
