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Fixing the ears

Fixing the ears - Photoshop Tutorial

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Fixing the ears

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- [Instructor] In this movie I want to take a look at how we can use some more advanced features in the liquefy filter in order to improve an area of this photograph. Now because of the angle of the way I captured this photograph, the subject's right ear is sticking out and so what I want to do is tuck that back in. To do that, let's begin by copying the background layer and then we'll double-click the layer name, we'll call this one Liquefy. Next, we'll navigate up to our filter pull-down menu and choose Liquefy in order to open the image up inside of the Liquefy filter dialogue. One of the things that we've seen is that we can use this Forward Warp tool and we can increase our brush size, or the pressure, and for a moment I want to exaggerate. This will look just outright silly, but I want to do this to illustrate a point. If I make an adjustment on the ear here and push, you can see how I'm pushing the ear in, but also the face. Yet, take a look at this. You can use this feature…

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