Hey guys!
Welcome to another tutorial.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to easily swap faces in Photoshop.
We're going to use the face of this woman here, and we're going to place it in this
man's body.
To do so, I'm going to click on the Lasso Tool, or you can just press L on your keyboard,
and draw a selection around the woman's face, like so.
And when you're drawing the selection in your image, make sure that you keep any crease
that you have on the person's face.
So, for example, some people might have a crease here, next to the lip, or on the nose,
or, maybe, even here on the cheeks.
Make sure you keep all the creases of the face that you're selecting, and, actually,
I'm going to hold Shift, and I'm just going to select that part there, just because I
missed a spot there.
Okay.
Now, that I've made my selection, I'm going to press Ctrl C on my keyboard, that's Command
C on the Mac, to copy the selection.
Then I'm going to go to the image of the man I have here, and I'm going to press Ctrl V
to paste.
I'm going to hold Alt and use the mouse wheel to Zoom In, that's Option on the Mac.
Then, I'm going to hold the Space bar to pan my image around so I can better get a look
at the man's face.
And I'm going to, actually, right now, I'm in the 3D panel, I'm just going to click over
to the Layers Panel, and I'm going to set the Opacity to 15%, and this is the Layer
1, and we'll just call this "Woman's face."
Okay.
Then, I'm going to press V on my keyboard to switch over to the Move Tool, and I'm going
to move the face up.
Press Ctrl T, that's Command T on the Mac, to Transform, and the pivot point, I'm going
to Click and Drag that over to the man's eye.
You can kind of see that in the background.
I'm going to place the woman's eye right above that, then I'm going to go to one of the corner
handles here, and hold Shift Alt, that's Shift and Option on the Mac, and I'm going to Click
and Drag.
And it's going to scale the image down into the eye, like so.
Once I've lined up the eye and the mouth, I'm going to go over to one of the corners,
too, and I'll Click and Drag up, since the man is kind of tilting his face and I want
to match that with the woman.
And once I have that pretty much lined up, I can, actually, Click and Drag these handles
as well, to match up the face even better.
Now that I'm done, I'm going to press Enter on the keyboard and I'm going to bring the
Opacity back up to 100%.
Now, notice that the skin of the woman is not covering any hair, or any of the features.
If your image has hair, just make sure that you cover that up, and you don't place the
face that you cut out on top of that hair.
Anyway, now that you've done that, I'm going to click on the background image and press
Ctrl J, that's command J on the Mac, to duplicate that layer, and I'm just going to rename this
layer "Man body," and I'm just going to shut off the visibility to the background.
I'm going to Ctrl Click, or Command Click on the Layer thumbnail here, to make a selection
out of the woman's face.
Once I do that, I'm going to go into Select, Modify, Contract, and I'm going to contract
this selection by 5 pixels.
I'm going to press OK.
And, once again, I'm going to hold Alt, that's Option on the Mac, and use the mouse wheel
to Zoom In.
You'll notice that the selection is no longer at the edge of the layer.
It contracted by 5 pixels, which is what you want to do, and I'm going to shut off the
visibility of the woman's face, and I'm going to click on the Man body layer, and I'm going
to press Backspace to delete those pixels.
I'm going to bring the woman's face back.
Anyway, I'm going to Zoom Out by holding Alt and scrolling out using the mouse wheel.
And I'm going to press Ctrl D, that's Command D, to Deselect.
Then, I'm going to select both layers by holding Shift and clicking on both layers.
Then I'm going to go into Edit, Auto Blend Layers, and make sure that Panorama is selected,
and that Seamless Tones and Colors is checked, and then press OK.
And notice the magic of Photoshop.
It automatically blended those two layers together and matched the tone for us automatically.
We didn't have to do much work.
So these are the two layers.
They're still two separate layers, as you can see, but Photoshop adjusted the colors
automatically and created two layer masks that allowed these two images to blend together
very nicely.
So I'm just going to press Ctrl G on my keyboard, Command G on the Mac, to make that into a
Group, and I'm going to turn on the visibility of the background.
So this is before, and this is after.
I'm going to Zoom Out all the way, actually, so you can see what this looks a little bit
better.
Actually, it's about there, and before, and after; before and after.
So, as you can see, Photoshop did a great job, and Photoshop is so good at doing this
that you don't even have to use a person with a similar skin tone.
For example, if we use a person with a darker complexion, like this woman here, Photoshop
will actually match that, as well.
One thing though, this lady here has highlights that I do want to keep.
So I'm going to edit this a little bit after I paste it.
So I'm going to go to Edit, Copy to copy this selection, same one I used before I'm going
to paste it there.
I'll do the same thing, and I'll go a little bit faster since you already saw what I did
just a few moments ago.
So, I'm going to set that to 50%, move the pivot point to the eye, match the other woman's
eye, and then hold Shift and Alt, that's Shift and Option on the Mac, and I'm going to use
the handles here to match the face just a little bit better, like so.
And I'm going to bring the Opacity back to 100%.
I'm going to use the Eraser Tool and I'm just going to select a Hard Brush here, and I'm
going to erase--
Oops!
You see that I actually erased too much in the other eyebrow?
The other person cannot, so I'm just going to press Ctrl Z to Undo that, and I'll try
that again.
Actually, I'll bring the Opacity down just a little bit so I can see where the eyebrow
is, and actually, I'm going to Zoom In here.
I'm going to press E to bring back the Eraser, and Oops.
Again, I did a little too much, and there we go.
And, I want more of this highlight on the original face's forehead, which is why I'm
deleting a little bit of the forehead.
And there's, also, a highlight here on the original person that I don't really want,
so I don't really need, and here, as well.
Okay.
Now that I've done that, I'm going to hold Alt and use the mouse wheel.
I'm going to scroll back so I can Zoom Out, and this is the face, and we'll do what we
did before.
Press Ctrl or Command Click on the Layer thumbnail to select it.
Press Ctrl J, that's Command J on the Mac-- Oops, sorry about that, I accidentally duplicated
the Layer 1 because that's selected.
So, I'm going to press Ctrl D to Deselect it, then I'm going to click on the background
group, and press Ctrl J to duplicate it, and Ctrl Click in the Layer thumbnail to select
the top face, and click on the background copy.
And I'm going to shut off the visibility to the background layer, actually, and then I'm
going to go into Select, Modify, Contract by 5 pixels, and I'm going to hit Delete on
the keyboard to delete those pixels.
I'm going to bring the Opacity back up to 100% on the Layer 1 there.
And before I merge these two together, I'm going to make a duplicate copy of that.
So I'm going to press Ctrl J to duplicate that face, then I'm going to select Layer
1, Background copy.
I'm going to go into Edit, Auto-Blend Layers, make sure Panorama is selected, and Seamless
Tones and Colors is checked, and press OK.
And, notice, again, what a wonderful job Photoshop did of matching the skin tone of this woman.
Now, even though Photoshop did a great job, in order to match the skin tone, the eyes
got a little washed out and they're not looking as good, and the lips are a little bit washed
out, as well.
Well, that's the reason why we created this second layer, so we can use the colors of
this layer for the background layer there.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hover over the Layer Mask icon.
I'm going to hold Alt, which is Option on the Mac, and click.
And this is going to create a new Layer Mask that's set to black, which hides everything.
So, then, I can use the Brush Tool by clicking on the Brush Tool icon or pressing B, and
selecting a Soft Brush, something like that; something that's about 35 pixels in my case,
and set the foreground color to white.
So, I'm just going to press D on my keyboard for that, and I can bring in some of the lightness
of the eyes, again, like so.
And we can bring some of the color of the lips back to, maybe, not too much; maybe,
that's too bright.
So what we can do is we can just fade that, so I can go into Edit, Fade Brush Tool, and
I can fade that a little bit.
It kind of brings back some of that pink that she had on her lips, then I'm going to press
OK.
And I'm going to hold Alt, and use the mouse wheel to Zoom Out, and you can see what a
great job Photoshop did of aligning these two layers together.
Now, in your screen, you might see a line that's going through here, around where we
messed the face.
That's, really, not there.
That's just a glitch that Photoshop has when it’s got two masks, and you're Zoomed Out
at a weird percentage, like 60.775, but if we do something like 75% and press Enter,
notice that line is gone.
I'm going to group all these and I'm going to put all of these into one group and press
Ctrl G, and we can do a before and after.
So that's the original face, and this is the after.
So, just to remind you, this is the original skin tone, and by using the Auto Blend Tool,
Photoshop automatically matched the skin tone for us.
And, as you can see, everything looks really good.
Now, if you want to do things the other way, where you have a dark skinned person, and
you want to match it to a light skinned body, it's not going to work as well.
You can still make it work but it takes us a little bit more work, and I'll show you
what I mean by that in a moment.
Let me just select this woman's face, and once I have the face selected, I'm going to
press Ctrl C to copy that and make sure the background layer is selected, by the way.
Ctrl C, that's Command C on the Mac, and paste that there, and I'll bring the Opacity out
just a little bit, and I'm going to press Ctrl T to Transform, and I don't really need
to do the pivot point that I used before, just because the two faces are pretty much
the same size here.
But anyway, once I've matched the faces, I'm going to do what I've been doing before by
clicking Ctrl on the thumbnail to select all the visible pixels.
Go into Select, Modify, Contract 5 pixels, and I'm going to duplicate this, and I'm going
to press Backspace on the keyboard to get rid of those pixels.
I'm going to hide the visibility of the background so you can see that I deleted the pixels there.
Select both layers; go into Edit, Auto-Blend Layers, and I will just press OK.
Now, I'm going to press Ctrl D to deselect.
Now Photoshop, again, did a great job in matching the skin tone, but since Photoshop had lightened
up this woman's skin, it also lightened up the eyes and the lips.
So, you kind of have to do what we did before and duplicate this layer before doing the
merge, and, maybe, play around with the Curves Adjustment Layer, just to give things a little
more contrast just because the darks in the image are going to be really washed out.
But anyway, you can clearly see the power of Photoshop's Auto Merge.
I mean, it's just amazing how it matches everything.
This is not only good for swapping faces.
You can actually add other features of other people onto faces, for example, a mustache.
I created this off camera, so as you can see, it's just the same technique.
I used a mustache that I cut out of a body of a different man, and I used the Auto-Blend
to blend the images together, and it looks like as if this mustache belongs to that woman.
If I Zoom In, you can clearly see that the hairs are going over the woman's lips, so
things look a little bit more realistic if we blend them together appropriately.
And that's it for this tutorial, guys.
I really hope you enjoyed it.
Thank you for watching, and I'll talk to you next time.