Clip Art Face Swap

[NMarti]

Several people want to know how I did the "Victorian Cover Girl" face swap and it is really quite easy.

Find a clip art you like and try to locate a photo that has the same basic face shape / tilt. Remember, you can flip the image and rotate it to make it fit.

Open the clip art file and duplicate it. Rename the copy layer to cutout. Click on the background layer and then click the new layer icon. It will put a blank layer between the two images. Fill this layer with white. Now working on the cutout use the selection brush with the mode set to mask and paint over the area of the face you want to remove. Make sure you go all the way to the hairline but dont remove too much. Also fill in the selection completely. Now change the brush mode back to selection and the marching ants will show you what you have selected. Go to Select - Inverse and then do Select - Feather - 2 pixels. Now hit the delete key and it will remove the face and leave a lightly feathered edge and a white face blank.

Open your photo and resize to the approximate size of the clipart. Drag this image into the clipart stack below the cutout and above the blank layer. You can now delete the blank layer as it is no longer needed. Adjust the face by resizing, rotating, enlarging or whatever to fit in the opening and look natural. Now adjust your brightness, hue/saturation to match the skin tone in your clipart. This may take some adjusting. Finally I ran the blend tool along the jawline to smooth it out a little more. If your picture looks too smooth for the clipart (it tends to be grainy) you can do filter - distort - diffuse glow and play with the settings to make your picture grain match the clipart.

[fotogirl19]

What a great tutorial! Your layout shows your experience and talent. Thank you for the inspiration!

[Wendy]

I think you did a superb job on this one ... and thanks so much for sharing how you did it :)

Wendy

[Robyn]

Thank you Nancy.........I have printed this out for future reference.

[reincard]

Hi Nancy,

You did this in PS or PSE?

Reinaldo?

[NMarti]

This was done in Elements 3

[Priss]

Several people want to know how I did the "Victorian Cover Girl" face swap and it is really quite easy.

Find a clip art you like and try to locate a photo that has the same basic face shape / tilt. Remember, you can flip the image and rotate it to make it fit.
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Nancy--that is just such an awesome layout! The face swap is absolutley perfect on it. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING US how you did it. Now we can too, and it'll be a challenge to do as perfect as job as you did. AWESOME help--Thanks.

Scrappers--if you missed Nancy's WBWT post it's right here (http://www.scrappersguide.com/forums/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=4055&cat=587)

[SumScrapper]

I really liked your layout and loved how you did the face swap. Thanks so much for sharing how you did it. I am going to give it a try. Thanks.

[ADesignGallery]

Thanks for the TUT my friend. Your design is wonderful!

[smith]

Thanks so much for the tutorial on how to do the face swap. I am not sure I can do it, but am going to give it a try. You are so generous with your sharing. That's what I like about scrappers Guide forums. Everyone is so helpful and willing to share.
smith

[Jan]

Whenever I go to antique shops or flea markets, I always look for the old, Victorian era cabinet portraits. I love practicing my photo restoration techniqes on them.

Here's a face transplant I did last year when I was fooling around with restoring some old sepia photos. I loved the velvet dress the lady in the original photo was wearing, and her beautiful hairstyle, so I thought I'd just 'try them on' to see how they'd look on me!

So I dropped my face onto her head and worked with it until it was fully blended. Here's the result:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=13eWkDi3rbpuVsXMkpf2nLvUFCoXT0

Then, I located an antique frame and set the image inside:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1QVnS3yzoO35ZwR0Z8BFbHOfsL5


This is a fun way to create 'instant ancestors' too, or to add to cards or heritage pages.

[Wendy]

Hi Jan ...

Oh Wow that looks great !! ... and the frame suits it perfectly :)

Wendy

[carolopal]

Wow, Jan!!! That is so cool. You did a fantastic job with this!!

[Parker]

Very cool Jan. Only one thing, you are smiling too much! LOL Nobody really smiled for photos way back then. Just kidding, you did a great job.

[NMarti]

Jan
Great job on the swap. Yeah all my ancestors looked pretty sour too. I have about 150 old photos and I don't think I can find any where they were smiling. Now I know where my sourpuss teen gets it from.:D

[dmrdm]

Now this is neat. I've done face swaps. My husband on the face of the GRADUATE DVD, people at work....but this is way tooooooooo cool. My sister is into victorian stuff, so I'm going to have to try this with her face. WOW. Am sure finding the right victorian person will be a challenge.

[ADesignGallery]

This is a fun way to create 'instant ancestors' too, or to add to cards or heritage pages.

Mmmhmmm... so you're creating your own ancestors. Planting a new family tree? Just kidding! I can't resist this, but the "instant ancestors" comment brought to mind the news stories of professionals with fake diplomas & graduation portraits on their walls.

Thanks for sharing your face swap!

[moondancer]

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]All I can say is WOW! I am so impressed...what an awesome job you did!
moondancer