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Art 133: Project 1– Face Swap by Niclaus Cook

The first project was designed to give a basic introduction to heavy photoshop compositing. The task, using a series of portraits taken of the class, create three new people by swaping their facial features.

This project has given me a new perspective on the way I like to shoot. While I do incorporate small amounts of compositing into some of my work, never anything as heavy as this project involved. I do my best to capture what I want physically in camera, and only if I absolutely can not accomplish that, then I turn to photoshop. These portraits are over the top, first time try outs for certain techniques, and very scary. However I do think these came out strangely interesting