The English verb "to swap" means exchange, exchange, replace. We are already at a current photographic trend that spills over to us from America: Face Swapping . To participate, you only need a smartphone app or a small software. Both allow you to exchange any faces from photos and replace them with others.
For example, from a photo of the Obama couple, you could cut out the president's wife and put your face on your body. Anyone who explores the implications of Face Swapping realizes that it can use it to drive a lot of scraps, but also promote history.
People who have become unpleasant can simply be exchanged for others. In the future, the Chinese Mao Tse may no longer have to be retired from official photos, but can replace it with a politician that has not become unsuccessful.

Photo effects - for example implemented by processing programs such as Photoshop - are now a popular way to upgrade, change or combine your pictures. Face Swapping is technically easy to do. To perform a Face Swap, you only have to cut out the face of the person concerned with a suitable tool from a photo and push it to another point - for example a different photo.
For example, you can take a picture of father and daughter a picture in which the father suddenly has the daughter's face and vice versa. The inserted images are automatically adjusted by the Face SWAP program in size or can be manually fitted so that it looks as natural as possible.
Occasionally, compatibility is insufficient because a person was seen in the half profile, but the other from the front. This can also be created with the FACE SWAP strange effects. Photo shots with three noses or pairs of eyes completely alienate a person.
The basis of the Face Swap is a facial recognition technology that only makes such photographic effects possible. There are already numerous applications of this trend program on the Internet, which doesn't cost much, but promises a lot of fun. If you hire it cleverly, you can swap the faces of the president Bush and Obama, but leave the forehead and the hairstyle.
The effect is astonishing: Obama suddenly has gray, side -lifted hair, Bush has a super short cut. The desired section size of the Face Swaps is defined yourself. Therefore, you can calculate the effects that occur to a certain extent.
Basically, you can digitally edit a picture and subject it to a complete or partial change. These photo effects arose in the nineties, but only developed the trend with the iPhones and tablet computers. "Face Bombing" is known as the further development or variation of the "Face Swaps" .
Here you not only exchange a face, but all of a group against one and the same. The time will show which ingenious photo effects can be achieved with a facial exchange. However, it is clear that it will not remain a technological gimmick.
The press also has also used for such tools and can now assemble any heads on the bodies of others in order to develop a selling -out cover picture. With the help of other funds, this has been done for a long time. In quality, however, it often left a lot to be desired.
For all mobile phone users with Android operating system, I can recommend the following great Face Swap App on Google Play:
- Face Swap for Android
With this app it is a lot of fun and is so easy to exchange faces that everyone can do it.
If you are the proud owner of the new Photoshop software (CS5 or newer ...), you can of course also create a hand yourself and carry out a professional face swap within a few minutes.

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