In this video, I'm going to show you
two techniques for adjusting facial features in Photoshop.
The first technique will only be applicable to the newer versions of Photoshop.
We're going to use artificial intelligence for that.
But with the second technique, you could follow along if you're using an older version of Photoshop
since we're going to be using older tools.
All right. Why don't we jump right into the tutorial?
This is the image that I'm going to work with,
you can use whatever image that you like.
By the way, this is the same photo that I used on my Joyner Lucas hands over the face
double exposure effect.
If you haven't seen that tutorial, I've placed a link down below under description.
I think you'll really enjoy it.
But anyway, this is the image that we're working with.
And I'm just going to simply start out by right-clicking on the layer and converting
it into a Smart Object because we want to work non-destructive.
A Smart Object is a container that can hold one or more layers,
and it allows it to apply adjustments,
distortions, filters and transformations non-destructively,
which means you can always come back and make changes.
So with this layer now converted into a Smart Object, I'm going to go into Filter, Liquify.
The Liquify filter will immediately know that there is a face on the image and you'll be
able to see this on-screen overlays.
Notice that the face tool is active by default.
And what this on-screen overlays allow me to do is adjust the face.
So notice that when I hover over one of these handles,
I get a tool tip that tells me what it does.
I also have a corresponding slider here on the right hand side.
If the image has more than one face,
I will be able to select the different faces from this drop down.
I usually prefer just clicking and dragging on the handles to adjust the image.
So I just simply hover over the handle and click-and-drag to make an adjustment.
Any adjustment that you make to the face, you always want to keep subtle.
You never want to push the things into the extreme.
However, in this tutorial, just so that I can show you how the tool works, I am going
to stretch it further than I normally would.
But, again, keep things very subtle when you're making these adjustments.
And like I said, all you have to do is hover over the image,
and click-and-drag to make your adjustments.
Very, very simple and you can use the corresponding sliders to make an adjustment.
If you want to see the original image, you can click on the Preview
and click on the Preview check box again to bring it back.
You can also press on the P key on the keyboard to enable or disable that Preview checkbox.
In this case I'm just going to press Cancel because I don't really want to make an adjustment.
I want to apply a different distortion now with tools available in older versions of Photoshop.
So what I'm going to do now is
select the Lasso tool and think of an area that I need to adjust.
For example, if I want to give myself a smile,
I can definitely do so simply by clicking and dragging over the face,
try to get more than what you need.
Then with the layer selected, you can press control J in windows, command J in the Mac
to duplicate the pixels inside of that selection.
I'm also going to right-click and convert it to a Smart Object.
And I'm going to show you one technique.
We can go into Edit, Puppet warp.
By default you should see a mesh.
I don't like using the mesh so I just disable it.
You can disable it just by clicking on this checkbox in the options bar.
But anyway, you can now click over the image to create pins, like so.
Then you can click on a pin and drag it anywhere that you want.
And I can do the same thing on the other side.
Also if you hold Alt on Windows, Option on a Mac,
you're going to get a circular overlay and you can click-and-drag to rotate that pin accordingly.
So I'm rotating it by holding Alt on Windows, Option in the Mac,
and clicking and dragging on the circular overlay.
When you're done you can click on the check mark to commit the changes,
and you can see the before and the after.
I think I might've pushed this left pin a little too much,
but luckily, we're working with a Smart Object so I can always double click on the label,
bring the pins back and just tune it down a little bit so that the pixels are not so stretched out.
And clicking the check mark to commit those changes.
And also, if you want to learn more about the Puppet warp tool,
make sure that you check out the link below in the description.
I have a crash course on it where I teach you everything you need to know about this tool,
all the settings and different options
so that you can master the tool and take your photo manipulations to the next level.
Again, link below under description.
Now what I can do is hold Alt on Windows, Options on the Mac,
and click on the layer mask icon to make a black layer mask,
which means that you will hide everything on screen,
and you can now paint with white on that layer mask to selectively bring pixels back.
So I'm going to select the Brush tool, make sure that white is my foreground color.
And I'm just going to paint with white to bring back the pixels that I want, not the entire layer.
So just the smile, before and after.
And doing this step of distortions require a lot of fine tuning and remember, keep your
adjustments subtle.
I know that in this case I might have stretched pixels a little too much,
I was a little heavy handed, but I wanted to show you how the techniques work.
What you're trying to do in your portraits is just adjust those little minor imperfections.
Also don't forget to check out my tutorial on the Puppet warp tool.
I place a link to it below in the description and
also a link in the description through the hands over face double exposure effect.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll talk to you again in the next Photoshop tutorial.