Have you ever wondered what you'd look like as the opposite gender but just couldn't afford the costly operation? Well, maybe you haven't. But it does make for an interesting picture! In this tutorial, I'll be taking a photo of a beautiful woman, and turn her into a studly biker dude!
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Distort her jaw to look more square
First, I wanted to slightly change the woman's facial structure. I enlarged her jaw to give it more of a manly look. I made a selection around her jaw, copied it, and pasted it onto a new layer. Then, using the Distortion Tool, I pulled the bottom two boxes slightly outwards to create a more square jaw line.
Copy your biker to a new layer
Next, I imported my source image of the biker. I made a selection around his hair and bandana and pasted it onto a new layer. I duplicated this layer so I have two to work with. I left one of these layers invisible for the time being. On my visible copy, I selected the Transformation Tool and aligned this selection to situate on the woman's head.
Clean up the edges of the bandana
Then, I selected the Eraser Tool set to 80% Hardness and erased the edges of this layer so that only the hair and bandana remained extracted.
Bring back the light colored hairs
I lost a lot of the stray individual hairs around her head during the extracting step. I made my other hair layer visible at this point. I set this layer's blend mode to Screen, so that the light colored hairs showed up again without obstructing the background. I lowered the Brightness of this layer by -83, and raised the Contrast by 22.
Start making wrinkles
Next, it was time to rough up and wrinkle the woman's skin. I started by adding wrinkles under the woman's eyes. I selected the wrinkled area underneath the eyes of my imported male source image, copied it and pasted it onto a new layer. Using the Distortion Tool, I aligned this segment to fit under her eyes. I then set this layer's blend mode to Multiply. I noticed this created too dark of an effect, so I raised the Brightness by 64 and raised Contrast by 3.
Wrinkle the brow
I continued the same process to furrow the area above her eyebrows and forehead. I copied the segment from my biker image and pasted it onto a new layer. I left the blend mode for this layer as Normal. I did need to adjust the color to match the woman's skin tone, though. I opened the Hue & Saturation menu and slid the Hue slider to the left by -10, raised the Saturation by 12, and raised the Brightness by 4. I then used a soft Eraser Tool to clean the rough edges to create a smoother blend into the woman's skin.
Replace the eyebrows
Next, I wanted to replace the woman's fine eyebrows with the thicker bushier set from one of the men in my alternate source images. Just as I did earlier, I simple copied the brows from my male source image and pasted it onto a new layer and used the Transformation Tool to align it properly to the woman's face. I then created a new layer and painted in a shadow underneath the bandana to create a deeper more realistic effect.
Wrinkle the nose and cheekbones
I continued the process taking appropriate segments from my male sources to roughly texturize the woman's nose and cheekbone areas.
Bring in the mustache
Next, I wanted to give the woman the mustache from my biker image. I copied and pasted the mustache from my biker image onto a new layer and aligned it with the woman just as I did with the other segments of her face. I had to use the Eraser Tool set to 0 Hardness to softly blend the mustache onto the woman's face without leaving hard edges to create the illusion it's being dispersed onto her face. I raised the Brightness of the mustache layer by 8, and raised the Contrast by 6.
Make a slight shadow under the mustache
I wanted to add a slight shadow underneath the mustache. I selected the Eye Dropper Tool and selected a reddish skin tone from the shadow under her neck. Then, I created a new layer underneath the mustache layer and drew in a soft shadow using the Paintbrush Tool set at 0 Hardness.
Distort the clothing
I copied the vest and chest area from the biker image and pasted it onto a new layer. I wanted to apply the new garb onto my woman, but I wanted her to maintain her original physique. So using the Distortion Tool, I resized the clothing to fit on the woman's original size.
Remove the lipstick Comment on this page
Next, I needed to remove the lipstick from the woman's original lips. I made a selection around the woman's mouth, copied and pasted it onto a new layer. I opened the hue & Saturation menu, and I slid the Hue slider to the right by 12, lowered the Saturation level by -57, and raised the Brightness by 15 to give the lips a more muted, natural look.
Make the hair longer
Noticing that there were remnants of hair still left on the vest I had added, I decided to lengthen her... er... his hair. I copied a section of the biker's hair and pasted it onto a new layer to create the appearance of longer hair extending down to the figure's shoulders, then did the same for the other side. I applied the Screen blend mode to these layers.
Adjust contrast and highlight
To enhance the image even further, I decided to increase the contrast of the existing highlights and shadows in the picture. I created a new layer for shadows. I selected the Paintbrush set to 0 Hardness and 10 Alpha and painted around the figure's eyes, nose, and anywhere else shadows already occurred, then set this layer's blend mode to Overlay. And I did the same for the highlights, by creating a new layer and just painting over the existing highlights on the woman's face. I also set this layer's blend mode to Overlay.
Tint the image
And finally, I brought the whole image together even further by creating a subtle aqua cast over the entire image. First, I created a new layer and using the Paint Bucket Tool, I filled the entire layer with white. I set this layer's blend mode to Overlay, and lowered the layer's Alpha to 12%. This brightened the image slightly overall. I then created a new layer, and filled it entirely with a muted blue tone (Hex #618484). I set this layer's blend mode to Overlay as well, and lowered the layer's Alpha to 70% to complete the image.
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