Note: This is definitely NOT an ethical photojournalism technique. Yes, it takes a little skill but with a bit of practice you can improve skin, and adjust proportions to make someone model-perfect. With just a few minutes' work, you can create a new person! See below for the before, during and after photos. Use the Healing Brush to fix them, if you haven't already. In a previous tutorial we already considered skin blemishes such as moles, pimples, wrinkles or scars.

Without holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse over the area you'd like to fix. Option key + click on a clear area you'd like to clone. For more complicated areas, choose the Clone Stamp Tool. Work with the Smudge Tool if necessary to smooth out blotches.ġ0. Click in the middle of that area, drag to an area you'd like to replace it with, such as clear skin above that area.ĩ. Choose an area you'd like to remove, such as the skinfold. Try the Patch Tool (might be under the Healing Brush). Try the slider to see a preview of what happens.Ĩ. Choose the area you want to make smaller, then from the Filter pulldown choose Distort, and Pinch. You can pinch interior areas to make them smaller using the Pinch filter. When you're ready, choose OK to save your work.ħ. (Understanding a little anatomy here helps.)Ħ. Slim the legs and arms and adjust to look natural. Push on the midsection with the tool to reduce. The liquify dialogue box and tools will appear. You can adjust by clicking on plus and minus tabs at bottom left.Ĥ. Note in liquify you can zoom by dragging with the Command key held down. Choose Liquify from the Filter pulldown.ģ. Download this photo and open in Photoshop. And the surprising tool that we'll use is the Liquify Filter.ġ. Now this person probably will not like the way she looks on the beach. (For that, see Ross's Fargo Fit pages.) But it might give us better mental health, as we are spared the pain of seeing how we really look in photos.Ĭonsider the photo at left. Photoshop weight reduction won't give us better physical health. One way is to reduce our increasingly obese American society.

We can produce people who never existed, not even close. They're Photoshop Pholks: normal people with a few (or more) problems made perfect using Photoshop tools.īut what we might not know is how far we can take this. To improve reddish skin tones, see Nip & Tuck Tutorial One (skin tones).Įverybody knows nowadays that the models you see in fashion magazines aren't real. It offers more powerful tools to make this feature easier, with the opportunity to let Photoshop operate with a more delicate touch. If you've upgraded to CC 2017 or 2020, however, skip to the updated tutorial below. Note: this tutorial is based on a YouTube video feature, one of 'bout a thousand of them covering Photoshop techniques. Photoshop Tutorial Eight (CS6), CC 2017 and CC2020īy Ross Collins, North Dakota State University

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