Adjust Facial Features: Face Tilt

Since its first appearance a couple of releases ago, Adjust Facial Features has made its mark on the editing community. It works brilliantly to make slight adjustments to the human face—rounder eyes, thinner cheeks, and flatter-shaped eyebrows. Elements 2021 has taken the AI technology one step further with a new feature called Face Tilt, which you'll see at the bottom of the Adjust panel. Of course, like its parent Adjust feature, it only really works if the AI can identify a face, or faces, in the shot.

Then, using AI, and a fair bit of background selectivity and pixel manipulation, you can rotate the face area left/right, up/down, and at a rotational angle. Sounds crazy, yes? I thought so, but soon discovered that it actually works.

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