How to Replace Faces Using Photoshop
If you ever wished you looked like someone else, or dreamed of standing next to your fantasy celebrity one day, making the actuality happen is far less likely than doing a quick-change face-off on screen. By manipulating photographs in Adobe Photoshop, you're able to replace faces within minutes, no standing in line, fan meet and greets, or bizarre plastic surgery required. Replace faces using Photoshop, which has the tools to ensure proper head-to-body ratio for realistic images.
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Instructions
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Open Photoshop. Click the "File" menu. Click "Open." Locate the first face picture to use for the switching and double-click it, which opens the image on the Photoshop canvas. Repeat until all images with the faces to switch are tiled on the screen.
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Click the "Lasso" tool, near the top of the "Tools" palette. Draw an outline around just the face to add to another body. When the blinking lines appear, press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys to copy the face.
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Click the picture with the face to replace, the one to be covered over by the copied face. Press the "Ctrl" and "V" keys to paste in the face, then drag it into place on the person's neck and shoulders.
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Resize the face, if necessary, by clicking the "Edit" menu, selecting "Transform" and clicking "Scale." When the border surrounds the picture, drag a corner of it to shrink it into size.
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Close the picture you copied the first face from to get it out of the way or, if more faces are to be copied from that picture, repeat the procedure and paste them in.
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Continue the "Lasso" and copy and paste procedure until all of the faces are replaced.
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Click the "File" menu. Click "Save As." For any pictures where you have pasted in new faces, type a new title for the image to preserve the original. If you haven't made any changes to certain photos -- the ones you simply copied the faces out of -- just close those without saving. For changed images, after renaming, click the "Save" button.
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Tips & Warnings
It's always far easier to start with a bigger head and size it down for the body. Shrinking an image causes far less damage to the picture. Going up in size, such as replacing a very large head/close-up image with a small head means risking pixilation, a problem where stretching the picture tends to distort it and certainly makes it look less realistic.
