--- title: Your AI Photos Look Fake. Here’s How to Fix... description: AI-generated portraits often suffer from plastic-looking skin, glassy eyes, and unnatural hair due to how generative models average training data rather than... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-ai-photos-look-fake-here-s-how-to-fix-plastic-looking-skin-b3hvflwec twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your AI Photos Look Fake. Here’s How to Fix Plastic-Looking Skin | daily.dev og:description: AI-generated portraits often suffer from plastic-looking skin, glassy eyes, and unnatural hair due to how generative models average training data rather than... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-ai-photos-look-fake-here-s-how-to-fix-plastic-looking-skin-b3hvflwec og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/B3hVFLwec.png og:image:alt: Your AI Photos Look Fake. Here’s How to Fix Plastic-Looking Skin og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your AI Photos Look Fake. Here’s How to Fix Plastic-Looking Skin **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI-generated portraits often suffer from plastic-looking skin, glassy eyes, and unnatural hair due to how generative models average training data rather than capturing real human texture. HitPaw FotorPea V5.5.0 introduces an AI Realism Model designed to fix these issues in one click by rebuilding skin texture at the pore level, correcting eye highlights, and reconstructing individual hair strands. The post walks through a practical workflow: generate with any AI tool, import into FotorPea, apply the Realism Model, optionally scale with the Nano Banana model, and export. Batch processing, multi-person restoration for group shots, and a Photoshop plugin are also covered. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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