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Thinning the body

Thinning the body - Photoshop Tutorial

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Thinning the body

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- [Instructor] One of the ways that we can shape, sculpt, or modify our photographs in Photoshop is with the filter which is called Liquify. Sometimes we may need to use this filter because of a camera or photographer error. Maybe you used a really wide-angle lens and it created some distortion. Or maybe you captured a portrait from an odd angle, or maybe something else, like in this situation, these two portraits were captured just one moment after another. The one in the left, you can see the subject of the portrait was sitting tall on a stool, then in the image on the right, she was leaning forward and she put her hand on the stool. What this did is it made this part of her arm kind of bulge out. Let's say we want to use this image, but we want to fix this part of the image. How do we do that? Well here I'll press F to go to full-screen mode, and then zoom in a little bit. When it comes to using Liquify, we can use it as a smart filter or just as a filter on a separate layer. So to…

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