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Had a few prom photos last night with my teachers, and with my English teacher's I noticed it was off-balanced, so I decided to move myself to the right of the photo so the teacher was in the centre.

This posed a few problems and, given I'm okay with photoshop, I wasn't really prepared for how much of a challenge this would be.

I think I've done a relatively good job in terms of making myself look as though I was stood there, but the problem is that the shadow on my face is the only thing left that makes me look superimposed, so I need to switch the light and dark sides of my face in a convincing way. I tried this myself by essentially splitting my face into two different layers and then edit the brightness of each and put a gradient so that it looked more like a natural shadow. This didn't really work (though this is probably the way to do it, my amateur skills in photoshop probably make it less successful than if a more experienced editor were to do the same).

Any help on how I can do this properly? And if you're feeling really generous, if you wouldn't mind doing it for me (but I don't really mind having to do it as long as I have a guide to follow).

Original photo:

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Photo in its edited state as of writing:

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(Just to make it clear - because someone on reddit misunderstood - I'm on the far left and I'm moving myself to the far right)