Facial Alignment - Photoshop?

[kirennia]

Right, well... basically, I've been taking a photo of myself for about 1140 ish days now, woo! The only problem is, while I've been relatively accurate in centring my face in the photos, when you run the pictures in sequence, my face dances around quite a bit. It makes me feel seasick.

Do any of you happen to have any ideas/suggestions for what I could use to try and centre all of the photos without doing it manually? There's no chancee I'm going to go through all of them centreing them all without something kind of automated.

Cheers guys!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

The only way I would have done this would have been to mark points where the camera and you were at the time of photographing, so you'd always set them up in the same place.

I don't know how you'd go about setting up a batch process to do that once you have the images though, sorry.

 

[kirennia]

Aye, I generally take the picture in different locations though; I just figured there'd be a way post-picture taking that it could be done. I could be in for one hell of a long day pretty soon then, lol.

 

[old.user4556]

Load each photo in as a separate layer and use the auto-align layer function (similar process in how you would align photos in preparation for HDR processing), should do it.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

HDR is for noobs who can't take real photos.

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[kirennia]

That works...sort of. I don't think I'm going to get any better to be honest, I took the photos at different times of day and of course I haven't exactly got the most consistant of faces (bloody beards/face slant).

Cheers for your help guys, I've just got to figure out how best to save the files now, heh. It could take a while

 

[MYstIC G]

Right, well... basically, I've been taking a photo of myself for about 1140 ish days now, woo! The only problem is, while I've been relatively accurate in centring my face in the photos, when you run the pictures in sequence, my face dances around quite a bit. It makes me feel seasick.

Do any of you happen to have any ideas/suggestions for what I could use to try and centre all of the photos without doing it manually? There's no chancee I'm going to go through all of them centreing them all without something kind of automated.

Cheers guys!

So you've been flashed 1140ish days in a row... eww!

 

[kirennia]

So you've been flashed 1140ish days in a row... eww!

Okay so I can align these photos... the question now comes about the borders for aesthetics. Do I blur the edges? Do I cut a certain amount away from the photos? I'm completely unsure of how best to do this... 1160 days and counting. Partially just thinking aloud but if anyone has any decent ideas, feel free to add.

 

[caLLous]

If you have space to do it (ie if you are relatively centred in each frame) I would crop all of them to the same size. The whole point (I take it) is the difference in the subject (you) from day to day so you don't want any unnecessary distractions (fancy borders etc) leading people away. It also helps when you come to make it into a video if all the frames are the same size.

 

[Exioce]

Just make sure the eyes are aligned. The rest doesn't matter.