Most AI avatar apps quietly reshape non-white faces into something paler and more “standard.” We built LumTale to refuse that — and to tell you exactly what happens to your photo.
It isn't an accident, and it isn't rare. The patterns are well documented:
Your skin tone, features, and identity stay exactly as they are. No whitening, no “fixing.”
Our cloud studio uses identity-preserving generation, so the face in your portrait is genuinely your face.
Where your photo goes, who touches it, and what it's used for — stated plainly, before you upload.
Curious how the Lumling look is made? Drop in a photo (or use your webcam) and watch it transform with our 100% on-device Lumling filter, entirely inside your browser. Your image is processed on this device and never touches our servers. Nothing here is saved, uploaded, or trained on. This is a quick preview — the full high-resolution Lumling render happens in Door 2.
The preview above is a quick on-device filter. Here are the three finishes you get when you let our vetted cloud studio (Door 2) do the full, high-resolution Lumling render — same face, faithfully yours, no whitening.
Style samples — full-resolution Door 2 portraits are generated from your own photo after you choose Door 2.
The Lumling preview above runs a deterministic Lumling filter inside your browser — no model download, no upload, nothing leaves your device. The promise copy you just read is the same — local and private by design.
To create a finished, high-resolution portrait, your photo is sent to a secure GPU partner (Replicate) that runs identity-preserving generation. We never store or train on your images, and you can read their policy before you begin.
No account needed to read our promise or try the local preview. A photo is only sent when you choose Door 2.
No. That's the entire point of LumTale. Our generation is tuned to keep your features faithfully yours.
No. The local preview above never leaves your device at all. For Door 2, your photo is used only to generate your portrait and is not stored or used for model training.
Door 1 is our promise page — and it includes a 100% on-device Lumling filter preview that runs entirely in your browser (no ML model download, no upload). It shows you the Lumling look on your own photo, locally. The finished, high-resolution portraits are created in Door 2 (Lumling Studio).
Then the Door 1 preview is perfect for you — your photo is processed entirely on your device and never uploaded. You only send a photo when you decide to create a portrait in Door 2.