Group & Multi-Face Swap

Swap a face into a group photo. Upload the face you want and the group shot, and our AI blends it in cleanly.

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A clear, front-facing portrait

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The photo to place the face into

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Why use Group Face Swap?

Built for group shots

Targets a face within a crowd and blends it naturally with the surrounding people.

Fast and automatic

No manual masking - The AI matches lighting, angle and skin tone for you.

Consent-first

Only swap faces of people who have given you permission, as our policy requires.

Swapping a face into a busy group photo by hand is fiddly - You have to match angle, lighting and skin tone for a single face among many. Group Face Swap does it automatically: upload the face you want to use and the group photo, and the AI detects the target face, aligns it and blends it so it looks like it was always there.

How it works

1

Upload the face

Add a clear, well-lit, front-facing portrait of the face you want to use.

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Upload the group photo

Add the group shot you want to place that face into.

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Swap & download

Generate the blended result and download it in seconds.

Group Face Swap examples

Popular ways to use Group Face Swap

Group Face Swap is popular for putting a friend who missed the event into the team photo, swapping a whole friend-group into a movie scene, or creating birthday and bachelor-party gags. It is also handy for reunion edits where one person only sent a solo selfie - drop them into the group shot so no one is left out.

Pairs well with our AI Face Swap and group photo guide.

New to this? Read our guide to face swapping group photos.

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Get sharper, more believable group swaps

The biggest difference between an obvious edit and a convincing one is the input you feed the AI. For the source face, pick a portrait shot at roughly the same angle and head tilt as the person you're replacing in the group photo - a face looking straight ahead won't blend perfectly onto a head turned in profile. Match lighting direction too: a face lit from the left looks off when dropped into a scene lit from the right. If your source selfie is soft or low-resolution, run it through our Image Upscaler or Portrait Enhancer first so the swapped face carries enough detail to sit naturally among the crowd.

Creative ways people use group swaps

Beyond rescuing reunion photos, group swaps are a goldmine for playful content. Drop your whole friend-group into a classic album cover, a movie poster or a sports-team lineup for a shareable in-joke. Office teams use it for fun farewell cards, and clubs build mock 'hall of fame' walls. Once you've assembled a custom group shot, you can keep editing it with our other tools - swap the backdrop entirely with the Background Remover, or try a single-face version first on the AI Face Swap page to test how a face reads before committing to the full group composition. Always swap only faces of people who've agreed to it.

Best photos to use

  • A group target photo where the head you want to replace stands clear of its neighbours - not cheek-to-cheek, not half-hidden behind a shoulder or a raised glass, so the AI locks onto one face instead of the seam between two
  • A target where that specific head spans at least a few hundred pixels - in a wide banquet or stadium-tier shot the back rows shrink to a thumbnail, and there isn't enough detail there to swap without mush
  • A source portrait whose head turn and chin angle roughly track the target person's pose; a straight-on passport selfie fights a head caught mid-laugh in three-quarter profile and ends up looking tilted into the row
  • A source face shot under the same kind of light as the gathering - a window-lit indoor portrait suits an indoor group, while a harsh-noon source dropped into a candlelit dinner table reads as a brighter cut-out
  • A target where the chosen face is in the sharp focus plane; if the group was shot at a wide aperture, only one row is crisp, and a face from the blurred row blends far less convincingly than one from the row in focus

What to keep in mind

  • It targets one face per run, so completing a row of several absent people means re-uploading the same group shot for each pass, and the separate swaps won't share a guaranteed consistent grade across the row
  • When two people in the group overlap or lean in close, the detector can lock onto the wrong adjacent face or bleed the swap across the boundary between two heads
  • The dropped-in face inherits the target person's head size, hairline and crop, so if your source has very different hair volume or a beard the target lacks, the edit stops at the original face outline and can look bordered rather than belonging to that body
  • It does not add a missing person's body - you can only paint a face onto a head that is already in the frame, so 'adding' an absent friend means there must already be a placeholder body or spare person to overwrite

What you get

You get back the original group photo with one chosen person's face replaced by your source face, blended for the surrounding lighting and skin tone, while everyone else, the bodies, and the background stay exactly as shot.

Real ways to use Group Face Swap

Salvage the one shot where everyone's eyes are open
Across a burst of family photos, every frame has a different relative blinking or glancing away. Take your favourite composition and swap in that one person's better face borrowed from another frame of the same set.
Wedding party with a stand-in
A groomsman dropped out the morning of the shoot and a cousin filled the gap for the formal line-up. Swap the absent groomsman's face onto the stand-in so the printed wedding portrait shows the intended party.
Annual class photo continuity
A pupil was off sick on picture day but appears in last year's identically-staged class shot. Lift their face into this year's lineup so the yearbook page doesn't have an obvious gap in the grid.
Group costume where one mask slipped
In a matching-costume troupe photo one person's face came out shadowed or unrecognisable; swap in a cleaner portrait of them so the whole crew is identifiable in the keepsake.

If your photo has just one person, or you want to swap every face in a duo rather than single out one head from a crowd, the plain AI Face Swap page is the simpler route. To deal with an unwanted extra in the same group shot, you have two on-site options that aren't swaps at all: Face Blur softens a bystander who shouldn't be identifiable, while the Object Remover deletes a stray photobomber from the edge of the frame entirely.

Group Face Swap FAQ

Can I swap more than one face?
Run the tool once per face you want to replace, using the same group photo each time. Each pass targets a face and blends it in.
What makes a good source face?
A sharp, evenly lit, front-facing photo with no heavy shadows or sunglasses gives the cleanest, most realistic swap.
Is group face swap free?
Yes. Like every tool on the site it is free - It uses 10 credits per run, and credits are free to earn.
Why does my swapped face look slightly blurry?
Usually the source portrait was lower resolution than the group photo, so the AI had less detail to work with - upscaling or enhancing the source first fixes most cases.
Can I swap a face onto someone wearing glasses or a hat?
Yes, but partial coverage like glasses frames or hat brims can confuse the blend; a clear, unobstructed target face gives the most reliable result.