Desktop app · Settings panel
The 11 controls in the desktop settings panel — what each one does, its default, and when to change it.
Swap intensity. 0 keeps your original face, 100 applies the full swap. Values in between blend source and target.
Tip — Lower to 60–80 if the swap looks pasted on; keep 100 for maximum identity change.
Skips the swap when head turn exceeds this angle, showing the original face on extreme profiles instead of a distorted swap. Note: there is no “Post limit” — this pose limit is the similarly named control.
Tip — Lower to ~45° for strict frontal-only swaps; raise toward 135° to keep swapping on strong head turns.
Master switch for the Angle Limit above. Turn off to allow swapping at any head angle.
Tip — Leave on unless side-profile swaps matter more to you than artifacts.
Keeps the mouth and tongue area from the original frame via segmentation, so open mouths and smiles look natural.
Tip — Turn off only if you see flicker around the mouth on low-resolution targets.
Output video keeps the source video's original frame rate instead of the app default.
Tip — Turn on when the exported video plays too fast or too slow versus the original.
Keeps the temporary extracted frames on disk after processing instead of deleting them. Useful for debugging or re-runs.
Tip — Off for normal use — extracted frames can eat gigabytes of disk.
Adds GFPGAN neural enhancement (2x upscale) after the swap for sharper, cleaner faces. Downloads the ~350 MB model on first use and needs GPU headroom.
Tip — Best for photos and short clips on strong GPUs; turn off for live mode on weaker cards.
Temporal face tracking smooths the swap across frames, removing jitter in live and video output.
Tip — Turn off only for single still images, where tracking adds nothing.
Keeps the original audio track in processed video files instead of exporting silent video.
Tip — Always leave on unless you plan to replace the soundtrack yourself.
Swaps every detected face in the frame instead of just one. Off locks onto a single target face.
Tip — Turn on for group photos and crowd scenes; leave off for solo portraits and webcam use.
BiSeNet occlusion-aware blending: understands hair, glasses, and hands so edges blend naturally. Off falls back to the legacy mask.
Tip — Leave on. Turn off only if parsing causes smearing on unusual lighting.
Open the ProtecMe desktop app and click the gear icon to open the settings panel. Blend level and Angle Limit are sliders at the top; the rest are on/off toggles below. Changes apply to the next swap you run — no restart needed.