I decided to try a random visual assignment and got The Boone Gorges Parent-Child Headswap. I didn’t have a child handy, but I did have The Tick. This was actually given to me by a child. A friend’s daughter, toddler at the time, walked up and handed it to me, oblivious that I was a fan. I wonder if she’d be impressed that I still have it.

Trying to get this swap to come out well was pretty hopeless. The Tick head was going to be fuzzy no matter what because I had to enlarge it so much. I tried to blur the photo a bit to match but it didn’t help.

The trick here was to copy bits of background and paste it to cover the parts of my head that aren’t covered by The Tick. I think I learned this from the You Suck At Photoshop series.  I did a pretty sloppy job of it though.

That was pretty lame, so I thought I’d try another. I had a picture of myself and the neighbor’s cat. This isn’t going to work too well either because of the cat’s ear, but at least the focus is better. The whiskers will be a problem too.

With both of these I used the Gimp, because Photoshop sucks at being cost-effective for normal people. I used the Polygon Select tool to trace around the heads and copy them onto new layers, then I scaled the layers to sizes that looked about right. The swap of this picture came out like this:

This still looks lame, but at least it has a cat in it. Maybe I could have worked something with the whiskers. I think the big problem is that both of these pictures were pretty lame to start. Maybe the moral of the story is to use better material to get better results.

This horrifying image is of me and my Mom on a family trip, to Virginia Beach back in October of 2007. I am 31 in this picture and my mother is 7 years old! As you can see I have been practicing my modeling skills for this picture, then there’s my mom looking like a little child.

This vacation was one of the best trips my family and I took to the beach! I remember digging trenches in the sand, running from the waves screaming because the water was freezing cold, and I remember chasing and squawking at the seagulls. One of the best beach days ever!

I chose this picture to swap heads because I was told as a child that I look more similar to my mom then my dad. Therefore, I wanted to test that theory! AND IT’S TRUE! I don’t know why, but our faces actually swap pretty well! It’s WHACK! I guess I am destined to grow into my mom’s beautiful looks!

Scroll down for the actual cute picture of me and my mommy!

LOOK HOW CUTE WE ARE!!!

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Mom and Daughter Face Swap!

For this assignment (worth two stars), we were asked to swap the faces of a child and their parent.

I chose my cousin and her family’s latest family picture.  I thought it would be funny to see what it would look like to see my cousin and her daughter’s faces on each other’s bodies – and it is!

To do this, I used piZap to swap the faces.  I started out by uploading the original picture to the website and selecting the crop button.  It then asked me to select a picture I would like to use to crop and I chose the original photo.  I used the paintbrush option to highlight what I wanted cropped and it took me back to the original picture I selected at the beginning.  I then moved the cropped picture of my cousin onto my niece’s body and I did the same process for my niece onto my cousin’s body.

I really enjoyed this assignment and would do it again!