USER MANUAL
Version 1.03 - Last updated 08 May 2008
Putty Face is the cool web application that allows you to turn your photos into caricatures.
Upload a mugshot of yourself, of a friend of even of your favourite pet and start modifying their face as if it were putty. Easy, intuitive and quick, you’ll then be able to share your creation ( here called 'Putty Face' ) with your friends in a variety of ways, including email, Facebook and MySpace.
Putty Face is basically made up of two components: the Editor and the Player.
EDITOR
Putty Face Editor allows you to upload your pictures and create your Putty Faces and it's available for free exclusively on Miniclip.com. Once you've created your Putty Face using the Editor, you can then share it on the web, send it to your friends by email, print it out or save it on your computer.
Putty Face editor lets you create a Putty Face in 4 easy steps:
1. Upload
You can upload a picture in Putty Face in two ways: from your computer or from the Web.
1 . Upload from your computer
- Press the "Upload a picture from your Computer" button.
- Browse your computer folders and choose a picture. Putty Face supports .bmp, .jpg, .gif and .png image formats.
- Click Ok.
2. Upload from the Web
To upload a photo from the web, simply copy and paste a picture's URL in the suitable text field then click on the "Upload" button.
What kind of pictures should I upload?
Any picture that contains a face is a suitable one. It can be your face, a friend's face, or even your pet's - anything sporting 2 eyes, one nose and a mouth can be pretty much Putty Faced!
Just make sure your picture size is under 2MB - that means 2 MegaBytes of memory size - not 2 Megapixels.
In any case also make sure that you are 13 or older, that you have the right to distribute the pictures you upload and that it does not violate Putty Face's Terms of Use.
When choosing a picture, keep in mind that you will have the chance of cropping an area around the face (see Crop ), so it doesn't matter if there's more than one person in the picture - you'll be able to crop the face you want to use in the next step anyway.
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| Upload a face photo of yourself, a friend or even a pet! |
Resolution
High resolution pictures give the best results, but be careful, the higher the resolution the longer it will take for the photo to be loaded into Putty Face. 1 Megapixel photos should be detailed enough to give great results, provided the area you'll crop (see next step) is not too small.
2. Crop
Position the cropping tool by clicking on the cross icon 
or in the area circumscribed by the tool itself and then move the mouse over the area of the photo you want you crop.
Resize the cropping tool by dragging its corner 
to the desired size.
When you're done, press the "Crop" button on the right hand side of the screen.
If the area you're going to crop is quite small compared to the size of the original photo, you'll have best results if the original photo's resolution is high (2 or 3 Megapixels).
3. Place Markers
It's time to tell Putty Face where all the relevant organs are in your mugshot!
You'll be asked to place markers on the picture for: eyes, nose, mouth, forehead, chin and cheeks.
Follow the example on the right-hand of the screen and place all the markers accordingly. At the end of the process you will be asked to confirm you're happy with the markers' placement. Press 'No' to repeat the process, 'Yes' if you're ready to proceed to modifying your photo.
Be creative in the placement of the markers, you'll notice how using the same picture but placing the markers in slightly different positions (for example a bit below or above the nose-tip for the nose marker) you can have surprisingly different results.
DUMBO EARS
If the ears of the person in your picture are visible, one of my favourite tricks is to place the 'cheeks' markers on the ears instead. That way you can have fun turning his ears into dumbo-sized ones!
PROFILE PHOTOS
You can even Putty Face a profile photo. Just make sure you'll place the forehead marker in the middle of the head and a cheek marker (the yellow ones) in the middle of the ear.
TWO PEOPLE
Sometimes, when it's a photo of two (or more!) people, you might want to keep both instead of cropping a single face and modify just one of them. You can get some hilarious effects, just check the example below!
Furthermore, you can decide to save your creation onto your computer then upload it again into Putty Face and modify the other person's face!
4. Model
Welcome to the fun! You're going to be the artist and your picture your canvas.
Model Manually
Simply roll the mouse arrow over the facial features of your picture (nose, eyes, mouth etc.), you'll notice that the mouse arrow will turn into an icon representing the part of the face you're rolling over (a nose, an eye, a mouth, or a 4-arrows cross for all other parts) and drag them to change their size and shape.
Drag your mouse horizontally to change the width of an element: dragging right to make it larger, left to make it narrower.
Drag your mouse vertically to affect its height instead, up to make it longer, down to shorten it. Have fun!
See Original
Press this button to revert to the original picture. Don't worry you can always go back to your Putty Faced version by clicking on the "Morph" button.
TIPS
Clicking on 'See Original' is also a swift way to wipe all the changes you've made to your picture and start over. Be careful though, because as soon as you modify the original image again, you won't be able to go back to the previous 'morphed' version.
Morph
Press this button to go back to your modified picture.
Randomize
Press the Randomize button to have a completely random Putty Face. Keep clicking and get lucky, you will find that particular expression you were looking for!
Share
Click on this button to share your Putty Face with your friends. You can share it via email, or post it on your website or blog or even publish it on My Space and facebook. See the Sharing section for a detailed explanation of all your sharing options.
Start Over
Have you shared your current Putty Face with enough people? Or have you just tried every possible shape and size of facial features? No worries, click this button to upload a new photo or replace markers on the current one. Be careful though, if you choose to go ahead you will lose all the changes you've made to the current picture.
Save
Save the Putty Face on your computer as a JPEG image.
Then you can show this image to your friends, send it via email, put it on your blog or website, etc.
Please note that while saving, the JPEG image will appear in a separate window.
Please make sure your pop-up blocker settings allow Putty Face to pop-up a new window, before saving.
Print out the current Putty Face.
Then stick it to your room's wall or post it by mail to the person you've Putty Faced!
Sharing
Email
Send an email to your friend(s) and let them witness your creative genius! A thumbnail of your Putty Face will be included in the email you send together with a link to the full version. Your email can even be sent to multiple friends, just make sure you separate their email addresses with a comma (for example: friend1@yahoo.com, friend2@hotmail.com, friend3@gmail.com etc.)
Link
Generates a snippet of HTML code that you can use in your website or blog to display a thumbnail of your Putty Face linked to the full, interactive version.
Blog or Website
Generates code that you can use in your blog or website to directly display the full interactive version of your Putty Face.
Messenger
Generates a link (URL) that you can copy and send your friends through your favourite instant messenger (Yahoo!, AOL, MSN, ICQ etc.)
Facebook
You have two option to publish your Putty Face on Facebook, in both cases make sure you're logged-in your facebook profile before choosing any.
Facebook post
Post your Putty Face in your Facebook mini-feed. Your friends will then be able to see the full, interactive version of your Putty Face by clicking on it.
Facebook application
Post your Putty Face in your Putty Face Facebook application. If you haven't added the Putty Face application to your Facebook profile you will prompted to do so. Once you've added the application to your profile you will be able to see full, interactive versions of your Putty Faces on your Facebook profile. Plus, you will be able to see Putty Faces published by your Facebook friends and edit the pictures they used for their Putty Faces!
MySpace
You can post the Putty Faces you create on this popular social network by copying and pasting the code provided in your MySpace profile.
Player
This is the web-tool that shows your Putty Face creation to the world, think of it as a picture frame with added functionalities.
Rollover the picture and a "Play" symbol will appear, click on it to make the Putty Face morph back to the original picture.
Click on it again and morph it back to the initial modified photo.
Also, you can control the Player with the buttons that are directly under the image:
Play / Morph
Shows a transition (morphing) to the original picture (Play) and back (Morph)
Create Your Own
Opens Putty Face Editor in a new browser's window.
More...
This brings up a list of things you can do with your Putty Face:
Share
Click on this button to share your Putty Face with your friends. You can share it via email, or post it on your website or blog or even publish it on My Space and facebook. See the Sharing section for a detailed explanation of all your sharing options.
Save
Save the Putty Face on your computer as a Jpeg image.
Then you can show this image to your friends, send it via email, put it on your blog or website, etc.
Edit
This will give you the opportunity to create your own Putty Face of the photo you're looking at.
That means you'll be able to re-place markers and modify the original photo as you like. Once you've finished you can re-post the newly created Putty Face or share it again.
Print out the current Putty Face.
Then stick it to your room's wall or post it by mail to the person you've Putty Faced!
Report
You can report a Putty Face to Miniclip's moderators if it contains pictures that don't comply with Putty Face Terms of Use.
Support
If you have questions or are experiencing problems using Putty Face please contact Miniclip customer support at: support@miniclip.com
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