How to Swap Faces in Photoshop

This is an article on how to swap faces by taking contours on one face and integrating it into another face in Photoshop. For this tutorial, you’ll need photos of two people whose faces are similar in size and looking in the same direction. In addition, you also need to use Photoshop CS6 or later.

Table of Contents

Choose facial contours

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Open Photoshop. It’s an app with blue “Ps” on a dark background.

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Open two photos. Open the photo of the two faces you want to swap in the following way:

Click File (File)
Click Open
Hold down Ctrl (on Windows) or command (on Mac)
Click both photos.
Click Open .

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Select the first photo. Click the tab at the top to select the photo you want to preprocess. This will be a photo of the person you want to “borrow” the facial contours of.

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Select Lasso Top. Click the noose icon at the top of the toolbar on the left side of the screen. If you don’t see Lasso Top, you need to first click and hold Ppygonal Lasso Top, and then select Lasso Top.

You can also press the L key to quickly switch to the required Lasso Top.

Combine two faces

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Select the second photo. Click on the tab above to select the second image as the face that you want to merge with the first face.

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Unlock the background layer. The operation is as follows:

Click the padlock icon .
Right click on the layer and choose Layer from background .

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Paste the selected part. This will paste the copied outline from the first image into a new layer on the second image. Paste as follows:

Click Edit , then choose Paste .
Press Ctrl + V (on Windows) or command + V (on Mac).

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Lower the density. Click

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next to the Opacity ratio (default is 100%) displayed in the Layers window in the lower right corner of the screen. Drag the slider to the left until you see the face and photo below.

A rate of 60% is ideal.

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Click Edit , then choose Free Transform . This will put the face layer in free transition and allow you to do more.

You can also press Ctrl + T (on Windows) or command + T key.

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Transform the face to match the background face. Squeeze or stretch the image to align the eyes and mouth with the facial contours of the background image. You can:

Zoom in or out of the photo by dragging the corners.
Stretch or squeeze the image by dragging the edges of the image.
Rotate the image by holding the mouse outside the corners and dragging the mouse.
Move the image by clicking inside the cell and dragging the mouse.

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Press ↵ Enter to apply the changes to the image. After you have aligned the image to your liking, pressing the Enter key will save and apply the changes to the image.

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Set the density to 100%. Click

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next to the Opacity ratio and drag the slider back to 100%.

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Hold down Ctrl (on Windows) or ⌘ Command (on Mac) and click on the face layer thumbnail. This is the operation of selecting visible pixels in the layer.

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Click Select , then Modify and click Contract . This opens a new window.

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Enter 6 in the box next to pixels and click OK . Thus, the selection will be adjusted to match the contours of the face.

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Select the layer below and press Delete . Click on the layer’s name below to select it, then press Delete . This is the operation to delete the face on the layer below, leaving only the 6 pixel overlap.

Face integration

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Select both layers. Hold down Ctrl (on Windows) or Command (on Mac) and click the names of both layers.

The layer is gray after being selected.

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Click Edit , then choose Auto-Blend Layers . This opens a new setup window.

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Select Panorama and make sure the “Seamless Tones and Cpors” box is checked.

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Click OK . Now the two faces have been merged!

Advice

You can perform the face swap by repeating the above process and starting with another face.
Use high-resolution photos when possible for best results.

Things you need

Adobe Photoshop Cs6 or higher version.
Photo of two faces looking in the same direction.

Steps

Choose facial contours

Combine two faces

Face integration

Advice

Things you need

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