Changing someone’s head from one photograph to the body of another photograph can be a lot of fun. It’s such a popular technique that you sometimes even see businesses in malls and shopping centers charging money to take someone’s head and put it on a body builder or a swimsuit model. In this tutorial, we’ll save you the money of having to pay for that. We’ll walk you through the steps of taking yours or someone else’s photo and putting it on another person’s body.
1. Open the two photos that you will be using to swap heads. For the simplicity of this tutorial, we’ll refer to the two photos as follow:
Body Photo: One photo that has the body you want to replace with a new head.
Face Photo: The photo that has the face/head that you want to swap onto the Body Photo.
2. With the “Face Photo” selected, use the Lasso tool and draw a selection around the head.
3. Click CTRL+C to copy the head.
4. Paste the head onto the “Body Photo” by clicking CTRL+V.
5. Click CTRL+T to go into Tranform mode. Move and resize the head to fit proportionately over the body.
6. Make sure the layer with the “new head” is active. Select the eraser tool and begin erasing the surrounding background around the “new head”.
7. Select the Clone Stamp Tool.
8. If you see in the image below, notice how the ear from the “old head” is showing from the layer beneath the “new head”. We need to get rid of this. So select the layer with the “old head” and begin to clone stamp out the areas of the “old head” underneath so that only the “new head” is visible.
9. Goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and adjust the saturation sliders. Do this for both layers so that both images match better. If the brightness levels of both photos are drastically different, then goto Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and adjust the levels of the two layers so that they match better.
See this Video:
Change Heads,
wow that was so easy, thanks
Great tip and worked a treat. Cheers!
from were can i download it
I LOVE IT. THAT LOOKED LIKE A BEAUTIFUL TRANSFORMATION SIMPLY DONE.
THANKS! That was great and to the point….write a book and I will buy it!!
Thanks heaps — just made it very straight forward and has given me a very useful skill.
Cheers
You are a legend
This is truly awesome and simple way to teach. Excellent.
where am i suppose 2 do dis?!
Photoshop. That’s what this website is for…
Idk how to do it i signed up for photoshop and i dont like see were you can ”circle” crop out the face to switch on the body… Or any of it!
Please email me & help me out! thanks,
vanessapatnaude@aol.com
very intrested and easy every one can understand
it’s quite interesting, i have used the technique and changed many faces
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aw herpy u so funnii!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wat r u talkin ’bout?
I wish Photoshop was a little bit cheaper (:
It is wonderful tut, will help my in my projects
u rock bro thanx mate
now this method is on my finger tips.thanxxxxxxxxx
I don’t get how to do it?!
photoshop is tha best
hmm.. i hev to try it.. hhahahahahahs..
That was so…so…so lame !!!
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Very good quick and easy instructions.
One thing you didn’t mention or do is to make sure the light direction for the two photos used is in the same direction,
if you look closely you can see the light and shadow direction for the face and clothing is different.
But very useful tutorial anyway!
i love this,,,thnx
What the furkk is thiisss?
I tried it, but it got fucked up. Wtf, I didn’t understand………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..but thanks anyway
Hello palese help me with what you do in the 7.12 minut mark. cant seem to cut out the bottom half
Why doesn’t the clone stamp thingy work…
What if there is hair involved? How do you deal with that? Can you do it and include the hair?
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Wow it was very easy
Thank you.!!!!going to paste my family’s
Head’s abovethe stuffed bunnies I have
Collected over the years
5 stars
Very good thanks
Hey!! If I can get someone who knows how to do this to photoshop a couple of pictures for me, I would greatly appreciate it
. Just email me at tayyrocks1@hotmail.com! Thanks!
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Somehow I can’t open two files at once with Photoshop, and the file is too big to be saved with Irfan View etc.
I only have Photoshop Elements.
What can I do?
this did not help me at all.