Yep, the cloning tool is one of my favorites!
Here's a shot from this week's football game.
Here's my SOOC shot.....very dark and Mr. Shane is in the background of all the action! I think he's a little distracting, don't you?
And here is my first attempt with Mr. Shane taken out of the background, lighting corrected and a little cropping.
Shane's a really good friend and all but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Sorry buddy!!!
Oh, oops, I missed his toe...do you see it? And in between Keeshawn's legs I see some jeans I missed. Let's try this again and add a little saturation and some more sharpening.
Here we go...........
Ok, so let me show you the photo first. I didn't retouch these at all except for the tool I'm showing you so know they could have been a little brighter and sharper but no time!!!! So, onward.......
Here's NO SMILE....
and here's a SMILE........
Pretty cool huh?
Ok, here's the steps.
Open the Editing part of Elements 6.0
Choose Filter, then Distort, then Liquify
In the Tool Options on the right hand side of the page choose a brush size that is about the size of the person's cheek.
Place the brush at the base of the cheek, click and hold your mouse down while you drag slightly up.
If necessary (which it wasn't in this photo) do the other side.
And as the wonderful book indicates be careful how far you tug or you'll turn your cute little one into Joker from Batman Returns
Click OK to apply the change adn save as a copy!
I recently upgraded to Photoshop Elements 6.0 and have been waiting to order the book to go along with it. I love others tutorials. In it I found this cool trick.
Photo ONE (posted just a day or so ago)
Photo TWO (with a little tweaking)
Can you spot the difference?
There is this cool tool called Liquify......
Before I tell you what I did I'm going to show you how to use it.
From the editing section of Photoshop Elements 6.0:
1. Click on the Filter menu
2. Choose Liquify
3. When that dialog box appears pick the 5th tool down from the top. It's on the left hand side of the screen. It looks like a square with it's sides pinched in a little. Click on that little guy.
4. It's the Pucker Tool. And it puckers anywhere you click it. I made the circle that indicates the size of the tool I'm using a size that my nose fit inside perfectly. Then I clicked. After one click I centered the right side of my nose inside the circle and clicked. Then the left side of my nose. Click.
5. And voila! ... a smaller nose.
Go back and look....yep, it's tinier!
Cool huh?
Wonder what else I can shrink? Maybe my muffin top (better know as a fat roll)
Have fun!
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