Aging of Faces

Hi,

i´m searching for a way to age the faces of people. That means, i want to change the face of a young person so that it looks as one of an old person. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

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Of course there are ways to do this, but if you are using it to make fake IDs, I ain't gonna help you.

I need this technique to show the children I teach how aging works. That´s all.

The surest signs of aging are wrinkles, changes in bone structure, skin colorization and hair color. The most common problem people have when aging someone is taking it too far. It is very easy to take a 20 year old and make them look 45, but making them look 30 is more difficult. Some things you could try are changing the underlying bone structure with the luquify command, but be careful not to take it too far. Changing the hair color slightly with the Hue/Saturation command, and changing the hair style with the clone stamp tool. Adding age lines and skin color variations can be done with the paint brush tool, but you will probably want to blur the resulting lines and sopts, and lower the opacity of the layers to blend them better.

As people age things about their faces change as well, the nose generaly gets a bit larger while the cheeks get sunken in. the eyes go paler not as vibrant as they were when you were younger. the texture of skin changes and gets pock marks and larger pores. Myopia is common to 65% of the population, so glasses are more common in older individuals. the skin becomes more wrinkled..

If you bear all these things in mind, and try some various techniques for adding wrinkles, and changing the structure and skin tone of a preson, then aging them isn't all that hard. If they have some wrinkles already try sharpening them to give them more contrast, try using liquify to enlarge the nose a bit, try using the paint brush tool to add larger pores (blend them though, cause dark dots will look more like a disease then a pore.)

But the most important thing to remember is to not take it too far, or the subject will start to look like they are 110 years old before you know it. If you want them to look that old remember that the skin on the neck will get flabby and start to hang in jowls at about 75 years old.

Good luck, if you need more detailed instructions do not hesitate to ask, I will go to my computer tonight and try to age a picture of myself a few years, and see how it turns out.

P.S.: most of these techniques are used by makeup artists to age a person, I've used them myself in the past with prostetic makeup, but I've never tried to age someone in a computer, however the same techniques should work.

teach kids how aging works? that sounds like a front for some shady under-the-table stuff. why don't u just get a mirror and say "see, u are "yooouuunnnng", I on the other hand am much "ooolllddeeer".
peace

Thank psycho...

the kids i teach have learning-difficulties. If they see themselve aging it would be easier for them than to learn by comparing two different person with different ages.

Jeez, i'd say "my dag ate it" is a better excuse than THAT.

Nos.

one way to age a face is to composite 2 differerent faces. use an image of someone older and use the obvious aged "parts" (like under the eyes, around the mouth, even the lips and chin) by cutting and blending them onto the primary image to be aged. I saw a tutorial on it once in a magazine, and I tried it and it turned out to be much easier than anticipated.

use the stamp tool and patch tool extensively, to put natural wrinkles (eyes, forehead, mouth) on other parts of the face (cheeks, chin etc...)

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