How to Head Swap Using PicMonkey
‘Tis the season of family photos. And ’tis the season of head swapping. We’ve all been there. You are trying to get the perfect picture for your holiday card. Of course, the kids don’t cooperate. You think you finally got the one and one isn’t looking.
Always happens.
But there is a way you can fix it. And you don’t have to have fancy Photoshop. Although, if you do, I recommend learning how to do head swapping with Photoshop. Afterall, you bought the program, why not learn how to use it!
If you don’t have Photoshop, there is a great online photo editor that you can use, PicMonkey.
Last night, a friend put out a cry for help in head swapping the below pictures for her holiday cards. In literally 3 minutes, I had it done for her. And here’s how I did it!
How to Head Swap Using PicMonkey
1. Choose two pictures that are similar in lighting and posing. Usually they will be taken within seconds of each other. This is a good reason to shoot in Burst mode when taking pictures of your children. I used the two pictures below.
2. Open the first photo in PicMonkey. Then using the overlay tool, open the second photo.
3. Next, place your overlay on top of the original image. Still using the overlay tool, switch to “Eraser”. Erase away everything but the head you are swapping.
4. After you are done erasing everything you don’t need, line the “good” head up over the bad head.
5. Voila! Now, Sarah from Nurse Loves Farmer has the perfect holiday card picture!
Great tip!
OmGosh – so cute! Just this weekend while away a friend was joking about swapping heads in photos we were taking! The irony of the timing of this post is hilarious! Thanks!
I had no idea that PicMonkey could do this kind of thing. With 3 kids who never ever look at the camera at the same time this tool is seriously going to help me finally get them all looking at once!
WOOT! Now I know how to do this, and I didn’t know I could erase stuff in PicMonkey. Awesome!
I love this. Thank You. I just started experimenting with the overlay tool. I never thought to do this.
Thanks so much for doing this and sharing the tutorial!
Great tip! thank you! And Sarah your kiddos are adorable!!
xoxo thank you!
Excellent tip! Now I know what to do with all those photos where Amelia is smling in one and Zoe in the other… Thanks!
Awesome tip – I’m sure I’ll be using it this holiday season!
That’s amazing! Great tip!
Oh my goodness! I needed this post TWO days ago!!! Love it but now I know for next time! Thanks!
Thank you so much!
I have seen so many tutorials for photoshop (which I don’t have) but am sooooo happy that you have shown it can be done in picmonkey!
Omg, thank you! I always wanted to be able to do this but I am horrible at photoshop!