FWIW, I do the eyes first. To get them to line up, I select the eye area from the photograph and drag it onto the template, adjust the transparency so I can see what I'm doing, cut it in half from the outside edge to the inner lacrimal/corner of the eye and fit the top of the eye first. Then I resize the bottom half of the eye to match with umpteen renders in between of course to make sure that it fits snugly on the character. Once I have it fitting properly, I merge the two layers, duplicate and flip horizontal and line it up with the other eye.

Once I have both eyes sitting where they should, I can then go to work on the rest of the face and usually it's then onto the brow and nose areas. For those areas and the rest of the face, I take portions from the left and right side of the photograph so that I get a nice realistic skin and not a character with two beauty spots and a mole on both sides of the face LOL. Of course you can just work on one side of the face and duplicate the layer, flip it and clone out those beauty spots and the mole and that's fine too ...just not my preferred way of doing things :)

HTH....

Kym

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