What is Age Progression?

Take part in the challenge!

1) Submit your childhood pictures + your current age.

2) Create an age progression of OP.

3) See how close the age progression is.

RULES:

^Submissions:

• Post a picture of yourself as a child (direct links only). It could be a picture of you at any age during your childhood. Tip: Post the clearest photograph you have of your face as a child. Albums with multiple high quality pictures of different angles work best.

• Include your current age and gender in the title (ethnicity optional). Example: 25F. You can be creative with the title if you want.

• You may include pictures of your parents and other family members if you feel comfortable. This will help the AgeProg creators to create a more accurate age progression.

• If you don't feel comfortable posting your current age and picture, you may request an age progression for any other older age you lived as long as you have a picture of yourself at that age.

• You can reply to commenters to let them know whether they're close or not.

• If an age progression is a spitting image, let us all know and post a current picture! Remember to post your current picture after a while/two ageprogs for comparison even if no one got it right.

• Flair your post Case Closed once you have submitted your current picture. If you are unable to flair your post, contact the mods and we will do it for you. Refrain from submitting a current picture as a reply to a non-rendered picture or when no ageprog was posted. You may repost at a later date.

• Report offensive replies and spam.

• Use popular image hosting sites (we recommend Imgur). Avoid deleting your post and images.

• If you want to discuss real age progression pictures, the science, technology and history behind age progression, learn how to create such pictures, or post an age progression picture you had done elsewhere, go ahead and mark it as Case Study.

• Age progression pictures can take a long time to create. So have patience and keep posting your childhood pictures for the subreddit to stay alive.

^{AgeProg Creators:}

• Post your age progression work in the comments of the corresponding post. Unless the case is closed, you have up to 6 months to reply.

• You may use any software/medium to create your age progression picture, e.g. photoshop, sketches, composites, morphing, e-fits, apps, etc. Please state the tools you used.

• This is not a lookalikes subreddit, so try not to post an existing picture of someone else. You may use part of the picture to create an age progression.

• You may explain in detail the process you used to create the age progression.

• You may create numerous age progression pictures to reflect different weight, hairstyles, facial hair styles, eyewear, etc.

• Amateurs are welcome.

^Visitors:

• Try to upvote every genuine submission to encourage more to people to post.

• Downvote any troll posts. Report anything that breaks the rules.

• Try not to post the first reply to a submission. Allow someone to post an age progression first, otherwise the poster will be disappointed.

• Do not post comments like "someone is shadowbanned here". This is not necessarily true. Deleted/removed comments are counted as well. Regardless, it is not your job to tell people that they are shadowbanned. Such a comment contributes nothing to any subreddit.

^{Post Flairs:}

• In Progress = current picture not yet submitted

• Case Closed = current picture submitted

• Closed w/o Progress = no age progression, current picture submitted

• Case Study = discussion of existing professional age progression pictures, how-tos, and the science, technology and history behind age progression

REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE!

^{If you wish to contact us directly, please send a private message to /r/ageprogresspics.}

Useful Tutorials & Articles:

• Age Progression Reliability
• Ask a Forensic Artist
• Illumination-Aware Age Progression

Related Subreddits:

• /r/ArtProgressPics
• /r/animalssmiling
• /r/PoliceSketchme
• /r/PhotoshopRequest
• /r/HumanPorn
• /r/CrappyDesign

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