In the Image Processing panel, crop the actor face from the image so as to remove a needless background and enlarge the facial image you wish to work with.
button (+ or Shift + "=") to zoom in the face area.
button and drag a marquee around the head to create a crop box,
as the actor animation is based on the head only.
of the marquee to rotate the crop box
until the arrow handle is parallel to the nose.