Lab 4
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Face Pasting

Ever wonder how the tabloids are able to get front-page photos of Elvis and Clinton shaking hands? It's called photo-retouching and one of its most entertaining applications is face-pasting. Using sophisticated graphics tools, you can cut someone's head out of one picture and paste it onto to the body of someone else in another picture.

Here's an example of a face-pasting:

Original	Face-pasted

Find an interesting picture (of a person) on the Web and paste pictures of yourself and/or your friends into the picture (if you do not have a picture of yourself, find a picture of a celebrity's head and pretend that it is your head). Try to blend your picture in with the background as best as you can.

Be sure to save often. You will probably invest a lot of effort in this, so don't let a random computer crash to destroy your work. At the end of the lab, you will need to submit this image.

Here are a few tips:

1. Find a picture that has a person in a similar pose to the picture of you.
2. Resize your picture so that your head is the right size to paste into the new picture
3. Use the Lasso tool to select your head in your picture, and then copy it
4. Paste it into the new picture and move it to where you would like it to be
5. Use the Retouch tool (the pointing finger) to smudge the edges around your head
6. SAVE SAVE SAVE!!
7. Finally, some students end up spending a great deal of time on this, and then don't have enough time for the next section of the lab, ``Creating Image Maps''. Be careful with your time.

Here are a few pictures you could use...

Samples (right click and choose "Save Link As" to get the full size version)