How to Face Swap using Photoshop

TO BLEND FACES:

1. Open up Photoshop.
   
    
2. File > Open > D Drive > Data Store > Your File > (Your Movie Scene/Poster).
   
   
3. Open up layers (Window > Layers) and copy the Background layer.
   
   
    
4. Turn off the eye next to the Background layer.
   
    
5. File > Open > D Drive > Data Store > Your File > (The image you are editing in).
   
6. On the toolbar to the left of screen, there is the ‘Lasso Tool’, click on it.
   
7. Drag around the area you want to select and place into the other scene and it should come up with a ‘marching ants’ selection area.
   
    
8. On the keyboard, press Ctrl and C (copy).
9. Go back to your Movie Scene and on the keyboard press Ctrl and V (paste). Your face should come up as a new layer.
   
    
10. On your keyboard, press Ctrl and T (transform). This will mean you can reshape your face. If you want your face to stay proportionate, hold down SHIFT.
    
     
11. Shape your face to be in line with what it is blending with. Once you have done this, press enter.
    
     
12. Left click on Layer 1’s box, and click on Select Pixels.
    
     
13. Go up to Select >Inverse
    
     
14. Go up to Select > Modify > Expand. Make the Expand By: to 6 pixels, and press OK.
    
    
     
15. Turn off the eye next to the Layer 1
    
     
16. Go up to Select >Inverse and the face that is being replaced should be selected.
    
     
17. Click on the Background copy layer, then on your keyboard, press delete, then Ctrl D.
    
     
18. Turn the eye back on Layer 1.
    
     
19. Holding Ctrl, select layers Background copy and Layer 1.
    
     
20. Up the top of Photoshop, go to edit >  Auto-Blend Layers > Blend Method: Panorama >OK