The Face Transformer: Ever wonder what you would look like if you were…

May 12, 2007 by Patrick Winfield | Design, Tutorial

Touching on a bit of a previous post on photo retouching and how it has become a rising industry for all sorts of clients, we now have a cool new editing toy from the Perception Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

The Perception Laboratories Face Transformer allows you to alter the age, race and sex of an uploaded image. You can even convert the image to a few famous artists styles…oh and even an ape man and a drunk.

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I gave it a try with my mug-shot of a drivers licence photo- if you have a better photo I suggest using it.

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Begin by uploading the image and answering 3 questions on age, sex and race to register the image.

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Next center the mouth and eyes on your uploaded image to match the samples alignment.

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Finaly select from the drop down menu of what you would like to be…

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Also of interest is a tutorial on ageing anyones face in Photoshop- from the good people at photshop lab.
(via: photojojo)

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For those of you coffee lovers out there check out these amazing high speed shots of milk and coffee splashes! (via: cpluv)

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A sweet collection of business card designs on flickr.

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5 Responses to “The Face Transformer: Ever wonder what you would look like if you were…”

  1. Tom on May 14th, 2007 9:36 am

    I was using this on Saturday- lots of fun. Awesome reference to Fletch too by the way!

  2. Patrick Winfield on May 14th, 2007 10:38 am

    That movie was great- I thought of it right away! Thanks for checking it out.

  3. Erika on May 14th, 2007 11:05 am

    Pat- can we try this with me! lol

    Love this post.

  4. transformed Zoe on May 24th, 2007 12:05 pm

    great tool. My TRansformation

  5. ecoman on February 28th, 2009 10:48 pm

    cool

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