Movie+Poster+Faces

Use your skills to superimpose YOUR face onto a movie poster, replacing the actor or actress. For this project you will need to:
 * Faces: Advanced **

-combine images -use layers -smudge -soften -dodge/burn -draw

Here are a few students examples. **Before you begin, you MUST complete the tutorial below**.

|| **//Pirates of the Caribbean//**, starring Donovan || **//Drumline//**, starring Greg || ||  ||   || || Beging by opening the files (Graphics Folder -> Paintshop Folder)
 * **//Lord of the Rings//**, starring Gina
 * **//Fight Club//**, starring John
 * **//Fight Club//**, starring John
 * Tutorial: **
 * Follow the steps in this “Twilight” example:

Twilight1.jpg Twilight2.jpg ||
 * Let's start by finding the poster where you wanna be main actress or actor. For this practice example, use the young lady seen here (Graphics Folder - Paintshop. Open up your photo and use Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the face. || [[image:poster1.jpg width="400" height="249"]] ||
 * Press Ctrl+C to copy selected area, then open up canvas with movie poster and paste as a NEW LAYER.

Rotate your face to find suitable position and size for it. Remember to Right Click to keep proportions. || ||
 * After that we can move to next step. For now use the Eraser Tool and a soft (hardness 0) round brush about 15 size, to remove hard edges from face fragment layer.

As we can see, skin color of face fragment is bit different from original color face on the movie poster. How we can resolve this problem? Go to Colors – Adjust – and then choose to alter the brightness/contrast (b= 6 contrast 9) and the red/blue/green settings (R: +3, B: +6) to try to match the skin tone more effectively. || ||
 * The next thing that you need to create is the proper shading. In the movie poster, the actress has a strong highlight on one side, and a shadow on the other side. In the sample face, the lighting is even.
 * The next thing that you need to create is the proper shading. In the movie poster, the actress has a strong highlight on one side, and a shadow on the other side. In the sample face, the lighting is even.

SO, now use Dodge Tool (Brush size 20, opacity 4) to add highlights where the arrows indicate. || ||
 * See the difference now:

Notice that the natural shadows on the right side of the face are gone, and match the original.

Now for the shadow side.... || ||
 * After that we have to make some burn work with the opposite side of the face. Select the Burn Tool (Brush: 25, opacity 4) and process JUST the eye area with it. || [[image:poster6.jpg width="450" height="281"]] ||
 * Move to the next step. Now we need to add global shadow to the left part of face. Create new layer; after that use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection and fill it with color of #1d0d08 on the new layer. || [[image:poster7.jpg width="450" height="281"]] ||
 * Remove selection with Ctrl+D and Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to blur current layer content about 3,8 pixels and change layer mode to Multiply. || [[image:poster8.jpg]] ||
 * Now will be the hardest part of doing this tutorial. We need to make the shadow layer more realistic with Eraser Tool. Use a soft (hardness 0) round brush with different sizes to get realistic view of shadow presence. This is challenging for beginners, but you have to try anyway. Adjust the transparency if it seems to extreme. It should look got something like this: || [[image:poster10.jpg width="450" height="281"]] ||
 * Now you are ready to try your pown project! The photo of your face is already in your folder. Your next step is to find the movie poster that you want to use. If we need to retake your photo, this must be done ASAP! ||