It’s common knowledge that our faces are not perfectly symmetrical and in some cases, we can see this just by looking closely in the mirror. However, wouldn’t it be interesting to see what your face looks like if it were perfectly symmetrical? You might be suprised how different your face would look.
Some have said that the resulting image looks like they would be their brother or sister, so it makes a great prank to do this to your friend’s photo and send it to them via email telling them that you may have found their long lost brother or sister.
Below, you will find a simple tutorial on how to take a photo of a person’s face and make it symmetrical. Have fun!
Instructions:
1. Open an image of a person’s face in Photoshop. The photo of the face has to be facing forward looking directly at the camera (3/4 or profile will not work for this tutorial).
2. Make sure that you photo is on it’s own layer above a white background.
2. Select the “Rectangular Marquee Tool” and select half the screen. Make sure that you the selection goes right down the middle of the face. Use the tip of the nose as a reference point for the halfway mark.
3. Click the “Delete” key to remove one half of the face.
4. Duplicate the layer of this “half face” by dragging the layer to the “Create a New Layer” icon in the layers palette (or CTRL+J). 
5. With the new top layer selected, goto Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
6. Select the Move tool. Holding down the Shift key, drag the top layer so that it matches with the underlying layer and creates your symmetrical face.
7. Last thing to do is get rid of the symmetrical hair. To do this, simply copy and paste the hair from the original photo onto a new layer in your symmetrical face photo.
8. You may need to use the Free Transform option (CTRL + T) to get the hair to fit the shape of the head.
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