Swapping faces or heads is perhaps what Photoshop is most commonly used for. Just about every magazine cover, or every movie poster that you see has had a head or face replaced. There are many ways to replace a face in Photoshop but one of the quickest and most effective techniques is to use the Auto Blend Layers option in the Edit menu.
Auto Blend Layers will not only seamlessly and effortlessly blend a face to a body, but it will match the skin tone as well with very little work! As you will see in this tutorial, you will be able to swap faces in Photoshop between two people with very different skin tones and this will only take a few clicks! Some times the eyes get a bit washed out but as you will see you can easily fix that. You could also check out my enhancing eyes in Photoshop tutorial to make the eyes even better!
This a fun technique that is not just for professionals anymore, you will now be able to easily combine pictures and put a face on a different body with just a few clicks. I’m sure you’ll impress your friends with your new acquired Photoshop skills!
Final Image
You created a man…
Very cool. I thought I was pretty good at face swapping till I saw this video. You made this look easy and the results are great.
Thanks Johnny!
Hi. Great video! getting tons of giggles swapping faces on family photo’s. Is it possible to swap faces on a single photo with two or more faces? Thanks. Cheryl
Cheryl,
it is possible! but you will need to do one face at time, and then copy the results into a new layer and repeat the process.
thank his video tutorials
Thanks!
Wow! That was probably one of the best video tutorials I’ve seen in a while.
Great job
Thanks Zakaria!
Its not working for me, when i shift key both layers and do the blend it just turns the 5 pixel contract into a mask and the two faces still have same original color.
Okay i sorted it, for some reason if you press the delete key to delete the background images face and not use the backspace key it does what i said above but i have don’t understand why that makes a difference as they both remove the background using the selection.
Can you explain the difference between using the delete and backspace.
Thanx
Man, I’m floored! I was doing this with puppet warp, masks, all kinds of color correcting.As long as the cheek bones are fairly close this is the way. Auto-blend, wow. Thanks, my headache is going away.
One of the best videos on face swapping. Simple.Superb.
Thank you, Suresh!
hey! i can not find the tutorial. can you help? where is it?
Hilarious, and informative . Thumbs Up (oh and thumb on a face a la Spy Kids would also be cool!)
i get a white layer outside , how to erase the thick white layer
Hello ,
I am a student of photography on Iceland , I am making a final project about swap faces , I need to know if there is anybody known that made something similar so I can take a look and have an inspiration .
Thank you in advance for any help you can give
Hi Gabriel,
I’m not sure if where you can find people who have done something similar, but maybe google it?
I hope this tutorial helps you out!
Do you provide transcripts of your video tutorials?
A written transcript would be valuable to follow all the quick select keys that are rapidly used in the procedures.
Bob, I do not. But it’s something that I am considering in the near future.