#@_xube

[xuberfanx]

Gender-bend Photo-Manipulations and video

Now genderbend can squick some people out, if that is you, that's totally cool. Move along, nothing to see here. :) 

So a year or two ago I started playing around with “FaceApp.”

I like reading crack genderbend fics (they’re just fun!) so I wanted to see what Sam and Dean would look like as women.

FaceApp was actually pretty good and not too far into the uncanny valley. However, a computer algorithm can’t always figure out what faces are supposed to look like. They sometimes ended up looking just a little.... off.

Observe: ↴

Now I’ve been fucking around with Photoshop for several years now. No professional grade edits, but I know my way around.

I thought to myself that I could probably make FaceApp’s edits look right! Really, i’d just need to rely on Sam’s male face and use FaceApp’s version as a guide.

So that’s what I did and I got pretty good at it too. Over the past year or two I’ve made a ton of these edits and thrown them up onto AO3 just for shits and giggles. I’ve become so efficient that I can make a good edit in less than a half an hour depending on the face and expression. Some turn out weird. Some turn out really good!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18994771

This is what I made out of the pic shown above:

This took me about 20-25 minutes.

I just used my laptop’s trackpad, not my Wacom tablet.

I don’t know if anyone would be interested or not, but I recorded the process of photoshopping this together.

I thought it was cool! I hope you think so, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg19yXMIzf8 

[m-sherezade]

Ooooooh Yeah!!! Cas is back 😍 I can’t wait… Castiel old trenchcoat and tie? ó.ò

Source: https://twitter.com/_xube/status/907024020939448320 #Karly

[acklesforlife]

I kinda looked really intensely on that new Ackles pic and either I'm seeing things or Danneel's tattoo are two arrows with a knot! Arrow & Zeppelin

Me too! But then I thought it might be my mind making me see things I want to see because I saw this beautiful fan art when the twins were born:

by @_xube on twitter and thought it would make a badass tattoo for Jensen or Danneel. And now, seeing Danneel with a tattoo on her arm, I immediately thought of this one. And since it’s so blurry to actually know what her tattoo really is, I’ll just be here, hoping to get a better view of it in their future photos :D

[princesssteviela24601]

Had so much fun with these ladies, my fellow central MD Gishers! So excited for the hunt this summer! . . . . . . . #Repost @pixxiepoetess with @get_repost ・・・ #gishchallenge1 @princesssteviela @bekahlynn422 @parii.3n @_xube (at Barnes & Noble)

[xuberfanx]

Dean/Jensen gender bends! 

Feel free to use these for all your Genderswap!Fics and viewing pleasure!

About 80% of the work was done with the Faceapp program, then I went in with Photoshop and made them better. Faceapp’s results were great, but almost too perfect. I added back his actual pupils, his actual ears, his actual lips, some of his fine lines and wrinkles just to improve the realism and nudge the result out of the uncanny valley.

[xuberfanx]

Sam/Jared gender bends!

Feel free to use these for all your Genderswap!Fics and viewing pleasure!

About 80% of the work was done with the Faceapp program, then I went in with Photoshop and made them better. Faceapp’s results were great, but almost too perfect. I added back his actual pupils, his actual ears, his actual lips, his moles, and some of his fine lines and wrinkles just to improve the realism and nudge the result out of the uncanny valley.