People and face swapping

Ever taken a snap of friends only to discover, after they have all gone, that one of them is looking in the wrong direction or has their eyes closed?

This is a common error that many of us will have experienced at one time or another. Before Elements came along, the only way to remedy this was to get your friends back together to recapture the image, or to spend time selecting, copying, and pasting figures from one picture to another. Correcting such an error was a time-consuming and complex process, so most people didn't bother doing anything further.

Fortunately, Elements has a fantastic feature called Face Replace that can help. The Face Replace tool is built around the same computer code that's used in the Panorama stitching and Scene Cleaner features (as discussed in Chapter 5, Easy Creative Projects), and it essentially enables you to remove a face from one image and transfer it to another, all without the need for making selections or complex masks...