 Bobbi Webre |
How to clone another face in Photoshop How (in easy terms) would I use a face from one image and place it on another image? I have a family portrait that the family loves, but one small child is looking away in the particular picture that they want, so I would need to take the face off of one image and change it to the picture that they want. I have Photoshop 7, but unfortunately I haven't experimented with this yet. Thank you! Bobbi Webre
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Damian P. Gadal |
What you want to do is extract the image (face) from one shot and add it to another. You would do this by openning the photo containing the face you want to extract from the background.
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Damian P. Gadal |
Then you'd use the extract tool which would bring up its associated dialog box. From there you'd use the edge highlighter tool and trace around the face you want to extract.
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Damian P. Gadal |
Use a small brush to get your well defined areas, such as hair. After you've highlighted the area you want to extract, use the fill tool in the extract toolbar and click it inside the the edge border you've just finished drawing. This will fill the inside of the border with a light blue colour.
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Damian P. Gadal |
From here you should be able to preview your extraction, if it looks like it worked click OK and let Photoshop extract the face. Check for any residue that you didn't want extracted and get rid of that.
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Damian P. Gadal |
Open the photo you want to add the face to and drag this background onto the extracted image you've been working with. Use your layers palette to drag the layer with your background photo behind the extracted face photo. From here you should be able to move, align and free transform and needed. Then you'd flatten the image and saveas with a new name. hth
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doug Nelson |
I had this same situation with a family portrait. Fortunately, the face I was transferring was in the same light from the same direction as the face I was replacing. If this is not the case with yours, do some fiddling with color balance to make it look like the same scene. Open both photos and use the middle double rectangle icon at the upper right to downsize each of them so that they are side by side. Select the face you want to transfer carefully by using the lasso tool. Allow a feather setting of the lasso of about 3 pixels. This prevents too sharp an edge. Select the donor photo. Use the Move tool and ALT key to move the selected face over the one you don't want. The donor face is a separate layer. You can go to the Layers Palette and cut back on the opacity if it helps you to place the face exactly. You can adjust the opacity of the base layer as well if that helps. Just bring both layers back to full opacity when you have it right. One caveat here-the resolutions of the two photos should be the same. The face sizes can be a little different, but not wildly so. You can scale the face in the Transform (under Layers? In Image?) just by pulling out (or pushing in) a corner while holding the SHIFT key. Before you can save as a TIF, you must Flatten the Layers.
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