In session you're going to learn one of the most used PhotoChopping methods: Taking one image, cutting it out, and placing it onto another. You will see this method often employed but rarely done well... Here's how to avoid looking like a fool.

For this tutorial we will take a full portrait of someone and PhotoChop a face right onto them. For comical purposes, we will use an image of an old man, and the face of a young woman, as shown here.

And this is the face we will be transplanting onto the guy on the left...

Start by bringing the picture of the woman into Photoshop and zoom in on her face. To zoom in with the keyboard, just press Ctrl and either - or +. Then grab the Lasso tool (shortcut L) and draw a semi decent line around her face. Then cut it (Ctrl + X).

You can go ahead and close the image, then bring up the other image in Photoshop. Once open, copy what you cut out from the other image (Ctrl + V). This will drop your face cutout into a new layer in that image.

This is where it actually get's fun. Your next task is to drag the face over the man's face and then edit the colour levels, and blend it into what's there already. Note, keep the face of the woman in it's own layer, do not merge them.

Hold Ctrl and click and drag the face over the man's face. Now it's time to resize the woman's face: Press V and make sure "Show Bounding Box" is checked. This gives you the ability to resize that layer (or whatever is selected). Just grab a corner of the Bounding Box and size it down to a normal looking size.

Now pull out the Eraser Tool (shortcut E) and cut away the blue edge. You should have something similar to this now. The next obvious step is to change up the colors to match the original image.

To change the colors you need to bring up the Hue/Saturation window. To do this, press Ctrl + U and follow along with what I have done.

Make sure your settings look similar, and note that "Colorize" is checked off. Keep in mind you can always go back and re-hue/saturate the image.

Next up come the last few steps involving the Smudge Tool (shortcut R) and in this case, the Clone Stamp Tool (shortcut S) to get rid of the glasses on the original. Note: The First PhotoChopping Session covers that tool.

This last step should be pretty straight forward. Most of it comes down to using the Smudge Tool correctly. Just make sure when using it that your Smudge Strength is set to something very low, like 30 percent. This will allow you to make finer details and blend more nicely.

If your image get's a tad too blurry, you can also always add an Unsharp Mask.
Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask...
This is a far better filter than just the plain old sharpen filter.

Go to work with that you've learned so far, this is what I came up with... Creepy...

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