Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you the quickest way to swap faces and seamlessly blend their skin
tones together.
You can choose to combine either face to either head.
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Open two high-resolution, similarly sized photos of faces that are facing forward and
are well-lit.
I downloaded these from Shutterstock.
The first step is to adjust their general color and tonal range.
To do this, click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Curves".
Click "Auto" which applies automatic color correction.
We'll make a composite snapshot of our image by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E on Windows
or Cmd + Option + Shift + E on a Mac.
If you want this photo to be the base to which the face of the other photo will be transplanted
onto, make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Open your other photo, click the
Adjustment Layer icon and again, click Curves and "Auto".
Then, make a composite snapshot.
We'll use the face of this photo to be placed onto the other head.
Open your Lasso Tool and draw around the eyes, nose, and mouth.
We'll cut and copy the inside the selection by pressing Ctrl of Cmd + J.
We'll place the cut-out face onto the other photo by pressing "v" to open our Move Tool
and dragging it onto the tab of the other photo.
Without releasing our mouse or pen, drag it down and release.
To see the face of the other photo under it, reduce the opacity of the top layer.
To resize it, open your Transform tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. Go to a corner.
If you're using CC 2019 or later, press and hold Alt or Option as you drag it in or out.
On earlier versions, press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it.
Position it so the eyes line up.
Then, press Enter or Return or click the checkmark at the top.
Increase its opacity back to 100%.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the cut-out face to select its shape.
Go to Select, Modify, and Contract.
I'll contract it 20 pixels, but feel free to adjust the amount based on your photo's
size and resolution.
Type in an amount that contracts it approximately this much.
Make the photo under the cut-out face active and press the "Delete" key to delete the area
of the face inside the selection.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Shift-click the top layer to make it active as well and
go to Edit and "Auto-Blend Layers".
Tick "Stack Images", since the two layers we're merging are aligned and stacked on top
of each other in the Layers panel.
Check "Seamless Tones and Colors, as well as "Content Aware Fill Transparent Areas".
If you see this message, just click OK.
Auto-Blend applied layer masks to both layers to mask out over or underexposed areas.
Lastly, we'll finesse our image's tones, contrast, and color to blend the face and head even
more.
Hide the two layers below the merged layer and click the layer mask icon to make a layer
mask next to the merged layer.
Open your Brush Tool and Brush Picker.
Pick a soft, round brush.
We'll adjust its size in a moment.
The Hardness is 0% and the Opacity and Flow are 100%.
To make your brush bigger or smaller, press the right or left bracket key on your keyboard.
I'll brush over this area to reveal the shadow just to the left of the hair.
I'll restore back the hair by pressing "x" on my keyboard to invert my foreground and
background colors.
Then, I'll carefully brush over the hair.
I'll gradually reveal back some of the skin of the original face by reducing the brush's
opacity and brushing over the edge of the transplanted face.
To lighten its midtones, make the top layer active and open your Dodge Tool.
The Dodge and Burn tools lighten and darken your image, respectively.
The more you paint over an area with the Dodge or Burn tool, the lighter or darker it becomes.
At the top, pick "Midtones" and reduce the Exposure to approximately 20%.
Adjust the brush's size and brush over areas of the face you'd like to lighten.
If some areas have a bit too much color, open the Sponge Tool and at the top, pick "Desaturate"
and make its Flow approximately 10 to 15%.
Brush over those areas that may have a bit too much color to desaturate them.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!