Lumigraphics wrote:
Why copy the whole face? All you need are the eyes.

+1

The less you move, the less you have to fix/edit to match the existing

Jessica Lynn87 wrote:
So this is my first attempt at putting a face on a different body...didn't turn out well. :-(  I like my pose in the second shot but my eyes are closed, so i chose a shot from the same series where my eyes aren't closed to copy onto the other body.  Unfortunately I know nothing about how to make it look natural so I think it looks obvious I put a different face on the body.  Could anyone give advice/take a stab at it?

Quick and dirty way to do it. Open the photo with your eyes closed and the pose you like. Duplicate that to a new layer so you have the same photo on two layers. Now, open the photo with the eyes open. Use the marquee tool to select the head of the open eyes photo, edit/copy. Go back to your closed eye one, select the bottom layer, and paste. You should now have the open eye head sandwiched between the other two layers. select the top layer and erase the eye sockets. Drop the opacity back to around 30. Select the head with open eyes layer, free transform, and move the eyes into the erased eye sockets. Once you get it close to position, turn the opacity of the top layer back up to 100. On the open eye layer, using the free transform to move it, and cutting the visibility of that layer on and off, make adjustments until the open eyes line up with the closed eyes on your background (bottom layer) and you are done.

Took me about 4 times longer to type this out than it did for me to do the photo edit.

Glamour  Retouch wrote:
Email both high res to me at xxxxxxx and I will  fix it for you.

Asking for advice is fine in this forum, but not for someone else to retouch it.

Lumigraphics wrote:
Why copy the whole face? All you need are the eyes.

Agreed.

Paul Brecht wrote:
1. open both images & copy/paste the image w/ the eyes open on top of the other one...

2. select both layers (ctrl + click on layer not selected)

3. Edit >> Auto Align Layers

4. create a layer mask (alt + layer mask)

5. paint white over the face until you get the face that you want.

6. Done

If you want, you can nudge the face (top layer) over a little to align it differently. If you paint too much of the top layer on, you can erase it by changing the paint to black...

white adds layer - black subtracts layer

Paul

The nicest thing about this approach is that the face ends up brighter than before, which the image could use.

Still, in this case, a simple cut and paste of the eyes, using the eraser tool around the edges (less than 20% and with a feathered edge) and then maybe brightening up the face using a Curves mask would work fine.