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Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Liquify tool

Wanna make things bigger? Smaller? Wanna increase your chest size without paying thousands of dollars? Wanna lose about 25 lbs without working out? Sure ya do! The liquify tool in photoshop can help you do this. This tool basically...
  1. Makes selected areas bigger/smaller in proportion
  2. Moves selected areas out/in/up/down/diagnol
  3. Allows you to mask off areas you dont want the tool to effect
Lets say for example you have a pretty flat chested model by the beach...and you wanna amp up her chest a few notches. Understandable. Go up to your Filters and select liquify. In the left side bar you will see several options for distorting/warping. The bloat tool is perfect for making things bigger. Select the bloat tool and then adjust the brush size so its slightly bigger than the breast (do each individually). Click it once and then repeat to the other side....using even amount of clicks on each side...for obvious reasons. Continue this process until they are as big as you want them. On the other hand the same can be done with the pucker tool...except that makes things smaller...so by clicking with the pucker tool on the breast would have a negative effect because no one like mosquito bites :). Another cool tool in the liquify side bar is the forward warp tool. This tool allows you to drag out objects in your circle to specific spots...example....Lets say your models thighs are just a little too chunky...By using the forward warp tool and click on the outer thigh area, you can move it inward ...giving her a more shapely appearance. You will notice though that while you warp/bloat and pucker the background of the image will change as well...Never fear! Before doing anything to your model first grab the Freeze Mask tool on the left and paint everything you dont want to change in red. Example: If your trying to make someones arm skinnier and dont want the tree in the background to bend with the warping your about to make...Paint it red with the freeze mask. If you overdraw with the freeze mask, in other words put red where you didnt want it...just grab the thaw mask tool which acts as an eraser. There are also 3 other unique features...a swirl tool which is self explanatory, a push left tool which I wouldnt ever use and a turbulence tool which creates a suctioned type effect. If you've over done it...and want to bring back your original image...you can brush back spots you want with the reconstruct tool! Okay so just play around with this thing...Find a picture of a fat woman and try to make her skinny or vice versa...Better yet find a picture of a chick with really small breasts and make them bigger...like your girlfriends..she will appreciate it ( or dump you). Here is a picture I did of Kim Kardashian. These are some of the things I did in this picture.
  1. Used the bloat tool on her breasts (several clicks)
  2. Forward warped her hips out giving her that ghetto booty feel
  3. Adjusted brightness/contrast
  4. Used the smudge tool to erase her swimsuit straps
  5. used lasso tool to select her swimsuit then adjusted its color balance to a different color.
  6. Used topaz adjust filter to sharpen and make the image pop.
Feel free to try these things on pictures of your own...Id like some feedback on how your pics turn out..and feel free to ask more questions...


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