Digital face morphing transforms ordinary portraits into wild animal hybrids using advanced Photoshop techniques. This creative process combines human features with animal textures to create striking fantasy portraits.
The tutorial demonstrates how to seamlessly blend tiger features onto a human face using displacement mapping, layer masking, and warping tools for realistic results.
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Essential Tips for Face Morphing
These key techniques will help you achieve professional-looking animal transformations:
- Use high-resolution photos with subjects looking straight into the camera for better feature alignment
- Create displacement maps by duplicating and blurring the human face layer to wrap animal textures naturally
- Save face selections as channels early in the process for easy reuse throughout the project
- Apply the Warp tool to align animal pupils with human eyes before adjusting other facial features
- Reveal human eyes and mouth through layer masks to maintain recognizable facial characteristics
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