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Let's "face" it, at some point you have thought about using Photoshop to place one person's face on another person's body. In this tutorial, Martin will explain how to do this using a few of Photoshop's basic features. Let's get started! Download more Photoshop tutorials below.

  One of the fun exercises I do as a designer is to create my own world. Drawing from a reference, I would combine the craziest parts of different animals together to make up a new animal and give it a name. 10 years later, I'm still doing the same thing. In this tutorial, we will use Photoshop to combine a crocodile and a frog to create a new animal species. Let's get started! What You Will Learn in This Photo Manipulation Tutorial How to merge two images together. How to remove the background from an image.  How to clone parts of an image for photo manipulation. How to adjust colors when merging photos together. This tutorial will show you several photo manipulation techniques that can be applied to a whole host of projects, concepts, and composition. Not familiar with Adobe Photoshop? Check out our Adobe Photoshop for Beginners course, here at AA School of design. Frog stock photo Crocodile stock photo 1.  How to Set the Scene Step 1 First, grab the Frog stock photo fr...

Time is the grand equalizer, youth is fleeting, and beauty fades. As a face ages, it undergoes a predictable pattern. Wrinkles form around the eyes, brow and mouth. The skin darkens, and spots occur. Gravity eventually prevails against cheeks that are not as tight and perky as they used to be. The nose and ears continue to grow long after the rest of the face has stopped. The eyes tend to sink back further into their sockets, and the hair thins, recedes, and gradually turns gray. Each of these symptoms can be simulated with some Photoshop knowhow. So if you are curious what you or a friend may look like in a few decades, this tutorial will show you how to add years to the face of a portrait. 1.  Gather Resources The aging process is predictable enough that we can actually use a photo resource of an older individual to add to the photo of a younger person. The key is to find a photo of an elderly model that has similar facial features to the younger model. Look for things like simil...