A Crane Clan Photomerge

This past weekend my family and I were lucky enough to all be together for Fathers Day. See that adorable beautiful family, those are my peeps, The OG's (Original Gangsta's). As my dad would say, "yup, that's the whole fam damnly." My dad likes to make jokes, always.



So, anywho, the family pic above, how does it look? Anything out of the ordinary? Besides my brothers face? Just kidding bro. ;)

Well, the truth is, it's a lie. I wasn't going to say anything because I figured I could get away with it but it's been eating at me. I didn't sleep at all last night and this morning, I swear my alphabet cereal spelled out the letters f-r-a-u-d. I can't take it anymore... so here it is.

That's not the original photo.

On fathers day, we took a couple family pics but one in particular was my favorite. Everyone looked great but unfortunately, Tiff (oldest sister, far right) was the only one who got caught in an awkward mid-smile (see below). There was another pic taken where my sister has a perfect beautiful smile (see below the one below) but unfortunately you can't see my sisters full one-piece denim jumpsuit, which is obviously unacceptable. So, in order to fix this family portrait faux pas, I cut off my sisters face. Wait, that sounded bad. What I meant was I performed a face swap. It's kind-of like that show Wife Swap but way less disturbing and more practical.

Below are the two pictures I merged to get the final picture which is shown above. It's not perfect but I'm pretty happy with it considering I taught myself how to do it. (Sidenote: I may have an unusually small head, but head size does not correlate with brain size. I know because I asked a doctor.)






How I did it:

In Photoshop...

First, I cut out Tiff's smiley face with the lasso tool feathered at 5. Then I copied and pasted it onto my preferred photo.

Next I adjusted the size of her face to fit appropriately only to find that the color tones didn't match.

I adjusted this by adding 2 adjustment layers to my face layer. One for hue and saturation and another for brightness and contrast. I tinkered around with those two settings for a bit until I found a color that matched the original.

I finished it off by using the eraser tool to fix the places where the face didn't quite match up perfectly and then voila, I gave my sister a gift that only doctors and Gods can give, a new face. (If you're wondering, yes, I did just compare myself to both doctors and Gods.)

So, there you have it. The Crane Clan Photomerge. If anyone has any other tips or tricks for performing a face swap, send 'em my way, I'd love to hear them!