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1. Introduction: Hey, guys. My name is
Dmitri, and in this class, I will share with
you how to make cool face labs using
Adobe Photoshop. This effect can be useful
for many situations. Personally, I have
used this trick to have fun and
prank my friends. For example, getting
everyone the same face in a group photo will make your friends
laugh for sure. It's a cool future, and you will definitely have fun
sweeping faces. Feel free to
recommend this class with other people, and
let's get started.
2. Photo Examples For Best Practice : Now let's talk about best
photos to make this effect look natural so people won't even understand that face
actually swapped. It works best on
photos where there are multiple people already
standing next to each other. So the light does the same effect on every
face in the photo, which will help a lot with
making it look natural. For the best effect,
you also need people's heads being turned
in the same direction.
3. The Easy Face Swap Technique: Let's start with the easy
version of this technique. Here we have two photos
of different man. We will need to zoom
their faces closer. It can be done in two ways. The first one is to select
Zoom to from Tool Menu. You can now left click to zoom in and if you
want to zoom out, you need to select
Zoom out option in upper menu of the tool. The second method is the most
comfortable to work with, and it requires to use hot keys. To zoom in, you need
to hold old bottom and scroll up to zoom in and
scroll down to zoom out, holding that old bottom. If you're planning
to work in Photoshop on different projects,
this is the way to go. So now we need to
select the face. To do that, we need
a lesser tool. There are three
variations of it. We need the first one because we don't need to
be precise here. Now, let's select the pace
that we will be copying. Again, you don't
have to be accurate. You can always make corrections later if there will be a need. Once the phase is selected, press Control C to
copy the phase, select second photo and
press Control V to paste it. Now we have the
pace to work with and we need to place it
correctly so it matches. Press Control T, which allows to resize and replace
selected layer. Ideally you want to match
both faces so that eyes, nose, and lips are
in the same place. To match them, you
just need to bring opacity of selected
face down to about 50%, so you can see both
faces at the same time. After adjustments are done, you can just press Enter, bring the opacity back to 100%, and check how it looks. In my opinion, it
already looks good. We just need to make
some color adjustments. So at this moment, we have two layers and one
of them is locked, which doesn't allow us to
make any changes to it. You just simply
double click on it, change the name of this layer
if you want and press okay. It was done because we need the original phase
to be deleted. After that, we need to
select the new phase again. But this time we won't be using Lasso tool because there is a simple way to select it when there's nothing else
you need in this layer. Simply hold Control and
left click on the layer and it will automatically select everything that is in it. Now just follow steps I do. Press select, then modify
and choose contract. It allows you to resize
your selections by pixels. Amount of pixels are different. The higher the quality
of the photo is, the bigger amount of pixels will be needed to contract
from the photo. In my case, I chose four pixels. So now press Okay and you
will see the difference. Now, we need to work
with first layer, select it and high
second layer so you can see the effect
of the next step. Now press the lead
button on your keyboard. So now there is no face
on the first layer, which is needed to make a
good merge those two photos. Now you can press
Control D to D slight. There is one last step to do. Select both layers, hold Shift and click on
both of the layers. Press edit Auto blend layers, and make sure everything
is checkmarked and panorama is selected
and press Okay.
4. The More Advanced Way: Auto blend function doesn't
work 100% of the times, and for that, there's a bit more complicated way to swap faces. For this method, we will use the same two photos,
and in next lesson, I will show one example
where face web won't work properly and what kind
of photos you should avoid. Let's begin by zooming
in second photo. I will do it again step
by step so there is a bigger chance that
will stay in your mind. I hope you remember
that for zooming in, it is much easier and faster
to use Opus mouse scroll. So you need to select
the face using lesser tool and like in
the previous method, you don't have to be precise. And by the way, there's one more trick you can
do if you don't like your selection and what
to make some adjustments. By holding button, you can easily add some more
to your selection. It is not needed, but just for you to learn
new little tricks. After that, just
press Control C to copy and pass it in the first
photo pressing Control V. Quick reminder that to
transform and resize the photo, you need to press
Control plus T. Bring down opacity to 50%
and try to match eyes, nose, and lips if it's possible. When you're done adjusting it, you need to select that face. I help your memo how to do that, but I will remind you
that you just have to hold control and left click
on the layer to select it. Now press image in
upper left corner, hover your mouse on adjustments
and click on Match Color. In Match Color menu, you have to choose SRs photo, so it analyzes all
the colors in it. And if that photo
has multiple layers, you will also need to choose
the layer and press okay. In my case, it's a
background layer. So now you can see
the selected face adopted by grounds colors,
and now it matches. Now, the only thing
to do is to hide all the borders of the
face so it looks natural. For that, you need to
select eraser tool and set its hardness to 0% and just go around the face
to make it look natural. In some cases, where there
are clear sharp edges, you might need to use blur
tool to soften it out. In other cases, the
color adjustment will not give you
the 100% match, and you will have to adjust it manually in the
image section. In other cases, the
color adjustment will not give you
the hundred percent, and you have to match
the colors manually. For that, you need to press image adjustments
and color balance. There are a lot
more things you can adjust manually in
the image section. But in this case, there's
no need for that. This way to sweat faces sometimes can be easier
than the first one, but sometimes a lot
more difficult.
5. Bad Example of Face Swapping: Previously, I mentioned that not all the photos are
good for this effect, and I will show you the
example of a bad face swap. There are three
people in the photo looking in the same
direction, which is good. But as you can see, woman's head is turned a bit to the side. Those two men fit
all the criterias for a good faithful effect. They look in the same direction, their faces are turned
in the same way and also the lightning does the
same effect on their faces. We will start with them
to practice a bit more and then I will show how the
effect looks on the woman. I will not commentate this time, so if you feel that
you can't catch up, just go back to
previous lessons where I explain the process
step by step. As you can see, it worked
well on those two men. So now let's try to apply
the same face on a woman. In this case, we need to flip the face horizontally
to match them. But after that, it gives
a mismatch on lightening. Now I will show you how the Auto blend function will
try to handle this problem. This is how it looks when there are
different light angles. So make sure to
avoid photos where people's heads are not turned
in the same direction.
6. Conclusion and Project Gallery: Now when you know
how to swap faces, just go and try it yourself. I will leave a link to photos
I have used in this class, so you can try it
yourself step by step and also make sure to upload your results to the
project gallery. I will be more than happy to see your results and also
don't forget to share this class with your
friends because there are so many cool tricks you
can do in Photoshop. So let me know if you
like this one and I will create more
classes for you. Bye.
Dmitrij Zdanovic
