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Follow a Lens from a sentence to a published Lens, then read the short answers underneath.

Full-screen non-camera Lens experiences possible in Easy LensEasy Lens can now build Lenses that fill the whole screen and do not use the camera. Here is what you can make, who can make it, and how to publish one.
Payouts, explained: your Lens Creator Rewards FAQYou built the Lens. You shipped it. Now let's talk about getting paid. Lens Creator Rewards is how Lens Creators and Developers receive payouts for building Lenses on Snapchat.
The Easy Lens and Contra $10k challenge winners1,700 creators, seven days, more than 1,800 Lenses. Here are the three that won, and what the judges saw in them.
Make a Lens that edits the whole sceneImmersive Edits builds a Lens from one change to the whole frame: a new style, new light, a new background, or something added to the person in it. You can describe the change, show it with a picture, or both, and it is the slow tool in the suite.
Make a Lens that morphs your face liveAnimated FaceGen builds a Lens that changes your face while the camera is running. You describe the change itself, not the finished face, and it takes two waits rather than one.
Make a Lens that edits any photoAI Edits takes one written edit and builds a Lens that applies it to whatever photo someone takes. You are not editing your own picture, you are writing the instruction that gets applied to theirs.
Read the charts before you build your next LensSeven boards on the home page say what is winning in the Lens+ creator program and where the gaps are. You do not need an account to read them, and the last one is a list of what to make.
Turn a selfie into an animated dreamDreams Animated takes one or two selfies and animates them into a short stylized clip. You describe the style, the scene and the motion, and it invents the movement.
Get paid for the Lenses you publishLens+ Payouts is one switch on the publish screen. Here is what the switch does, what your earnings are actually counted on, and what you trade away when you turn it on.
Make an AI Photo Duo Lens with a friendOne prompt, two faces. You describe a scene once, and the Lens stages it for whichever pair opens it.
Make a beauty Lens in minutesThe whole flow on one Lens: the questions Easy Lens asks you, one change per message, and how to go back when an edit makes it worse.
Restyle a video of yourself with AIYou record the shot, then AI repaints it. Your movement and your timing stay, and everything else can change.
Make a tap to play game that keeps scoreA playable game with a score, a best score that survives, and a ranked list of your friends.
Start a Lens when you have no idea what to makeEvery new chat opens with five suggestions. They are not five Lenses to accept. They are five questions to ask, and the answers are where your Lens comes from.
Make a Lens where snowflakes fall on youOne Lens, start to finish. You describe it, Easy Lens builds it, you refine it, then you publish it.
Make a makeup face filterA face filter, without any coding. You name the look you want, then you tune it one prompt at a time.
Put your own photo in a LensYour own image, used as a background, a sticker, a 3D object on your head, or a guide for the AI.
Publish your Lens and share it on SnapchatFrom a finished preview to a live Lens, plus what to do when the review sends it back.
Turn yourself into a character with AIFour ways to become something else, and how to ask for the one you mean.

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