Watching the face-swapping portion of Jesús’s otherwise excellent demo above made me wince: this part of Photoshop’s toolbox just hasn’t evolved in years and years. It’s especially painful for me, as I returned to Adobe in 2021 to make things like this better. Despite building some really solid tech, however, we were blocked by concerns about ethics (“What if a war criminal got access to this?”; yes, seriously). So it goes.

Maybe someday PS will update its face-related features (heck, for all I know they’re integrating a new API now!). In the meantime, here’s a nice 4-minute tour of how to do this (for free!) in Ideogram: