Computer Experiment 4

Face Swap:

The image I will be editing in this computer experiment is from my shoot number seven, whereby I focused on pets and their owners. The photographer Sebastian Magnani was the inspiration behind this idea, as he photographs owners and pets changing faces, this highlights the saying "owners and their dogs look alike." 

Firstly, open the image you wish to use twice, this is because you need one image to cut the faces from, and another to paste them on to. After this, so to the quick selection tool and select the area of the photograph you want to swap, as shown below: 

After this, press cmd C, and then go on to the other image you have opened and press cmd V to paste the image, next use cmd T to resize the image and drag it into position holding down the shift key so the image doesn't become distorted, as shown below: 

Next, the same thing must be done for the dog, therefore on the other image, select the dogs face, and again use cmd C and cmd V to paste the dog's face onto the other image. After you have pasted the image, use cmd T to resize the image, holding down the shift key so the image doesn't become distorted. 

The overall outcome of the image is shown below:

I believe this image is interesting as it's reversing the roles of the owner and the pet, this also adds humour and irony to the image as usually the human is in control, however in this image the dog appears to be in control by holding onto the human. This humorous tone is something which I wanted to add to my shoots, in order to include more interest in my work, and also to appeal to a different type of audience. Overall, I do not think the image is perfect, as you can roughly see the outline of the two changed images, also the dogs face is slightly blurry where it was smaller on the original image; therefore if I was going to edit this properly for a shoot, I would ensure I edited each layer so that it blended efficiently with the background, to avoid any outlines being evident. 

Below is another rough edit from my shoot seven, that I have attempted in a similar way to the one above: