BeforeAfterPro templateSkincare ExtendedLifestyle
Skin Glass
Lifestyle category, on a 4:5 portrait canvas, with Inter Bold labels reading Untreated and Glowing, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.
UntreatedGlowingThe job it is forSkincare Extended pack
What Skin Glass is for
A very pale lilac wash, a single point rule barely darker than the ground, small muted labels reading Untreated and Glowing, portrait, the roundest corners in the category. Everything about it is understated, which is the correct register for skin: a loud frame around a skincare pair makes a claim the photographs then have to live up to.
The ground is a gradient of 2 stops, running #F8F8FF into #E8E8F8 behind the pair rather than over it. 1 point of #DDDDFF hold the two photographs apart, with Inter Bold labels bottom centre. It ships with Untreated and Glowing already typed, on a 4:5 portrait canvas, rounded by 20 points.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Skin Glass, as the build holds it
On a template built for a long gap, two values earn a second look before any of the others: whether the date stamp is switched on, and what the labels already say. Both sit in the panel beside the diagram. The diagram is the frame at the size the app composes it, showing the outline, the rule, the label corner and any reserved band.
- Canvas4:5
- Rule1 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- BandNone
- Canvas
- 4:5 portrait
- Label face
- Inter Bold
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 1 pt
- Corners
- 20 pt radius
- Ground
- 2 stop gradient
- Branding
- Overlaid, no band
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Untreated and Glowing
- Pack
- Skincare Extended
- Frame#F8F8FF
- Ground stop 1#F8F8FF
- Ground stop 2#E8E8F8
- Rule#DDDDFF
- Label#6666AA
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itLifestyle category
How to shoot a pair for Skin Glass
A long-gap pair has one enemy and it is drift. Everything moves over six weeks: the light, the room, the phone, the haircut, the clothes. The pair that convinces is the one where nothing changed except the thing being claimed, so the setup has to be repeatable by somebody who has forgotten how they did it. Same wall, same time of day, same distance, feet in the same place. Write down where you stood. In three months you will not remember, and the shot you cannot repeat is worth nothing.
In orderWritten for lifestyle work
- 01Set the shot up once and write down the setup. Distance, wall, time of day, what you were wearing. The note is the asset.
- 02Take the first frame on the first day even if there is nothing to show yet. There is no way to go back for it later.
- 03Repeat the shot on a schedule rather than when you feel like it. Ghost Camera makes the repeat exact, and the date stamp records when it happened.
- 04Pick the template that matches the register of what you are claiming. A neon frame around a modest change reads as a stretch.
- 05Keep the intermediate frames. A pair is one post, and a run of dated frames is a month of them.
Weeks between two photographs is weeks for something to drift. Put the pair through the free slider tool before you build the post, on your own device and in about two seconds, then use the guide to why pairs look staged to work out which part moved.
Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real
What Skin Glass will not do
This is the category where an honest pair is easiest to make and easiest to fake, and the difference shows. Lighting, posture, a tan, a pump, the time of day, and the same body reads two ways with nothing having changed. Nothing in the app adjusts a body or a face, and nothing in it should be used to imply a result you did not get. On the mechanical side, the labels shipped with these templates are editable text, so Day 1 and 90 Days are starting points rather than measurements the app checks.
On this template in particularA one point rule is the thinnest divider in the catalogue. Against a busy pair it can stop reading as a divider and start reading as a seam, which is worth checking at the size the post will actually be watched rather than on a preview.
If this one is not itFour questions, four answers
Without upgrading
BeforeAfterOpens on the free tier, on a 1:1 square canvas with Inter Bold labels.
Same pack, other end
UntreatedGlowingA darker ground in the same pack, with a 2 point #D4AF37 rule.
Same shape, other register
RawEditedThe same 4:5 portrait canvas, filed under clean rather than lifestyle.
Nearby in the catalogue
BeforeAfterclean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.
After the frame, the pair and the captionFor skincare extended work
Back up to every lifestyle template, or to the whole catalogue. The free browser slider is at the slider tool, and the hashtag research by trade starts at the hashtag index.
Common questions
- Who is the Skin Glass template for?
- A very pale lilac wash, a single point rule barely darker than the ground, small muted labels reading Untreated and Glowing, portrait, the roundest corners in the category. Everything about it is understated, which is the correct register for skin: a loud frame around a skincare pair makes a claim the photographs then have to live up to.
- When should I use something other than Skin Glass?
- The two photographs have to genuinely differ. A pale frame, a thin rule and a subtle change together produce a post where nothing is legible at feed size, and a viewer reads that as nothing having happened.
- Is Skin Glass free?
- No, it is one of the Pro templates. The free tier opens 8 of the 100, and everything else in the editor is free with them: all four comparison modes, Ghost Camera, the filters, the stickers, the full label editor, and your own logo and business name.
- What shape is Skin Glass, and what will it export at?
- The template's canvas is 4:5 portrait. The export ratio is a separate choice made in the export sheet: 9:16 and 1:1 on the free tier, plus 4:5 and the original ratio on Pro. 4:5 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
- Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
- Yes. Skin Glass starts with "Untreated" and "Glowing", and every part of that is editable: the text, the typeface, the colour, the size, bold and italic, uppercase, a shadow, the background opacity, and the position, either one of five presets or dragged anywhere on the canvas.
- Can I compare two video clips with this?
- No, and for a progress series that is the point. Two dated photographs are the unit of evidence here, not a clip, and the app builds the reveal out of them without ever touching footage.
Put your own pair in Skin Glass
Two photographs, one template, and a reveal that plays in about four seconds. Three exports a day are free, each behind a short rewarded ad.
Get the app freeiPhone, iOS 17 and later