The blinked frame · One instruction · The same face, awake
Open Eyes in Photo
The shutter caught a blink and there is no second take — the toast is over, the group has scattered, the light has gone. Rebuild the eyes on the frame you have and keep everything that was already right about it.
Open Eyes in Photo
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
A closed blink, then eye contact
Our own run on this site's engines. Drag the divider and check the brows first — if they jumped, the model rebuilt the face instead of the eyes. Then the smile, which should be identical in both. Every output is AI-generated; the result follows the face in your photo.
Drag to compare before and after
What fixing a blink actually requires
The model reconstructs the eye region: irises and pupils placed correctly, a catchlight in each, lashes and the eyelid crease rebuilt, and the surrounding skin reshaped the way a genuinely open eye sits.
There is a reason this problem is so common and so annoying. A blink lasts about a third of a second, and in a group of ten people the odds that at least one is mid-blink in any given frame are close to even. Photographers deal with it by shooting bursts and compositing the best eyes from a neighbouring frame — which works beautifully and requires that a neighbouring frame exists.
Most people asking to open eyes have exactly one picture, taken by a relative, of a moment that will not repeat.
The pair above is our own run and the check is quick. Look at the eyebrows: they should sit where they sat in the closed version, because opening your eyes barely moves them. Look at the spacing and the tilt of each eye against the nose. Look for a catchlight in both — the same window, on the same side.
Then look at the mouth, the hair and the collar and confirm nothing there has been quietly redrawn.
Where it gets harder: profiles and steep angles, subjects wearing glasses (the frame and the reflection both have to survive), and pictures small enough that the eye region is a couple of hundred pixels across. If the whole photo is soft rather than just the eyes closed, fix the resolution first — restoring an old or low-quality print is the better opening move, and the blink fix goes second.
Creative engine
How the fix runs
Upload the frame, name the eye colour, generate and compare at full size.
One person at a time
In a group shot, crop to the person who blinked, fix that crop, and composite it back — the model has more to work with and the rest of the frame is never at risk.
Eye colour is yours to state
Say brown, green, hazel. Left unsaid the model guesses from the face, and it guesses wrong often enough that it is worth one extra word.
Three steps to open eyes that fit the face
The bigger the face in the picture, the better this goes. Everything else is detail.
Crop to the person who blinked
In a group shot, cut down to that one head and shoulders before uploading. It hands the model far more pixels to work with and puts the other nine faces completely out of reach of the edit.
Name the eye colour and the gaze
"Open her eyes looking at the camera, brown irises, natural lashes, keep the smile and everything else unchanged." Colour and direction are the two things the model cannot infer from a closed lid, so supply both.
Compare at full size, twice
Once for the eyes, once for everything you did not ask to change. Most rejected runs fail on the second pass — a subtly different jawline, a smile that shifted a millimetre — and that is easier to catch side by side than from memory.
The photos that get rescued
Three unrepeatable moments and one badly timed blink each.
The group shot at the wedding
Fourteen people, one usable composition, one uncle mid-blink. Crop to him, fix it, put him back — and the frame everyone actually liked becomes the one that gets printed.
The child who will not hold still
You get one frame where they are laughing at the right thing, and their eyes are shut. There is no reshoot of a two-year-old's specific moment of delight.
The profile picture with one flaw
Good light, good angle, half-closed eyes that make you look exhausted. Fix the eyes, then treat the rest of the frame like any other portrait pass — a straighter smile if the mouth is the other thing bothering you.
Blink-fix FAQ
Checked before this goes in an album.
It reconstructs eyes consistent with your face rather than copying your real ones, because a closed lid contains no information about the iris underneath. Shape, spacing and set come out right; the exact pattern of the iris is invented. State the colour and the result is close enough that nobody who knows you will pause on it.
Ask for one at a time. A prompt naming two subjects tends to get one good result and one redrawn face, whereas cropping to each person, fixing them separately and compositing gives you full control and puts everyone else out of harm's way.
Usually, and it is the case worth checking most carefully. The lens edge, the frame and any reflection all have to survive the rebuild, and a run that quietly removes the reflection or thins the frame reads as wrong even though the eyes look fine. Compare the glasses specifically before accepting.
That is the easier case — a partly visible iris gives the model real colour and position information to work from, so results are more faithful than on a fully closed lid. Say "open the eyes fully" so it does not treat the squint as the intended expression.
Not if the run is a good one, and print is a fair test because it removes the option of squinting at a screen. The tells to look for are a missing or mismatched catchlight, lashes that stop abruptly, and skin around the socket that is smoother than the rest of the face.
Uploaded over HTTPS for the edit, stored in your history, never used to advertise, and deleted when you delete it. Every output is AI-generated.
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What each model costs in credits
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| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. Mini is cheaper still. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video (Lite). About 34 credits at 1080p, about 23 at 720p. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. About 8 credits per image. Start here to test. |
The rest of the face-repair bench
Other single-region edits that leave the photograph alone.
Rescue the frame you cannot retake
Upload the blinked shot, name the eye colour, and get the picture everyone remembers taking — then [fix the smile](/image/ai-smile-generator) if that is the other thing wrong with it.