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If you’ve been around TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen the proliferation of posts of people posing with celebrities in elevators, like this one. These are, of course, fakes – products of AI image generation tools – but they are a fun kind of counterfeiting that is very easy to participate in.
There are tons of free AI tools you can use to create any type of photo or video, but if you want your celebrity elevator meeting post to fit the current trend, the easiest way is to use CapCut.
How to Take a Celebrity Elevator Selfie with Capcut
CapCut is the easiest option for creating a video that matches the current TikTok trend. Here’s how to do it.
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Make sure you have CapCut and TikTok installed: they are both made by ByteDance, so they integrate seamlessly.
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Find an elevator celebrity video you like on TikTok
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Tap the “Share” arrow and choose “Copy link”
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Tap “back,” then tap “try this model.”
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Confirm your choice and choose “Use AI model”
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Upload a photo of you and your favorite celebrity.
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Hit “next” and CapCut will set it up.
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Click Post to TikTok and voilà, you’re a meme!
Here is a video tutorial if that is more helpful.
What do you think of it so far?
How to Take a Celebrity Elevator Selfie with Gemini
Using Google’s Gemini AI is another easy way to create an elevator image. Here’s how to do it:
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Go to the Gemini home page.
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Drag a photo of you and one of your favorite celebrities into the window. (Mine is William Howard Taft.)
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Add a prompt. Here’s what I used, so feel free to cut and paste if you like my results below: “Take these two photos and create a realistic, photo-like image of these people standing in an elevator. The camera is positioned in the top corner of the elevator, with slight distortion from the fisheye lens pointing toward them. The walls of the elevator are metallic with soft overhead lighting that reflects on surfaces. Both people look slightly towards the camera, capturing a cinematic and dramatic effect. your.”
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Gemini will spit out an image at you. Here is mine:
How to Make a Selfie Video with a Celebrity in an Elevator
If you want an animated video, you can put the AI photo you already made into an animation program. I used Grok for mine because it’s free and does a good job.
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Add a prompt. This doesn’t need to be elaborate – mine was something like: “The two men greet each other and fall in love.” »
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Upload your video and post it to TikTok with the appropriate hashtags, and you will get something like this.
