How to Switch Faces in Adobe Photoshop
Confuse your friends--use Photoshop to switch one person's face with his companion's. Use Photoshop's Layers capability to make changes without altering your original image. Use painting tools to create mask shapes to smooth elements together. Take a photograph of two individuals in one photograph and use it for your first face swap. Make sure that both people are lit evenly and that both face the camera.
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Instructions
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Start up your computer and load Photoshop. Upload or scan in your image onto the desktop and open it in Photoshop. Click "Layer" and "Duplicate Layer" from the Menu bar and pull-down menu. Click on the "Quick Mask Mode" button on the
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Click on the "Brush Tool" icon on the Toolbox palette. Click on the "Brush Preset Picker" icon on the horizontal options bar. Choose a "Soft" brush from the pull-down selection menu. Move the Master Diameter slider until it reads "45."
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Choose "View" and "Actual Pixels" from the Menu bar and pull-down menu. Your image magnifies. Paint with your mouse or stylus on top of your first subject's face. Take care to brush softly near the hair lines. Do not include hair. Notice that a red transparency appears where you paint. It represents your mask.
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Click on the "Standard Mode" button. A segmented line surrounds your selection and the red color disappears. Choose "Edit," "Copy" and "Paste." A cut-out of the first person's face appears on a new layer.
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Click on the "Move Tool" icon on the Toolbox palette. Click and drag on your face cut-out to reposition it on top of your second subject's face. Click on a corner of "Bounding Box" surrounding your cut-out and drag outwards to enlarge the selection, or inwards to shrink it. Match the size of your cut-out to fit the size of the face you want to cover.
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Click on the "Eraser Tool" icon and brush over any areas of your new face that overlap the hair or jaw lines of body on the layer below. Click on the "Blur Tool" icon and drag over the face's border lines to blend them into the composition.
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Click on the middle layer (Background Copy 1.) Follow the above instructions and paint a mask on the second subject's face. Copy and paste it on to a new level. Move the face on top of the other body and blend it in. Each subject has a new face.
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Choose "Layer" and "Flatten Image." Save your file under a new name.
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- Photo Credit Two young business men portrait on white. image by Joel Calheiros from Fotolia.com
