Tutorial: Make yourself look thinner!

[Posted 08/05/2009 at 12:01 AM | 3 Comments]

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Adobe Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool. Many of us already know the idea that magazine company already photoshop tons of their pictures to make the woman, or men, look better. This simple and easy to do tutorial will show you how to make yourself look thinner and even touch up unwanted areas.

Step One

Open up Photoshop, go to file > open and select the picture you want to enhance.

Do the length and concept of this tutorial, I decided to use the following picture I found on Google images:
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Step Two

With the picture open, you want to go to filer > liquify. It will load up a new window.
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Step Three

With that screen open, you want to select the Freeze Mask tool. This will freeze all areas around the woman so you do not mess any of that up.
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Step Four

Once you select this tool, brush an outline around yourself making sure to leave some space between your body and the outline – like so:
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Step Five

After you do that, select the Forward Warp Tool.
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Step Six

Once you select that, pick a large brush, stop right after the waist ends, and click the mouse button and move the cursor inward.
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Step Seven

Do this around the entire body until you are satisfied. This is what mine looks like:
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Step Eight

Almost done, but we want to remove the rolls she has on her back, and maybe fix up some of the cellulite on her legs/butt region.
Zoom in on the areas you want to fix.
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To fix these areas, select the Clone Stamp Tool.
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Once that is selected, right next to the area you want to fix, press the alt button (a bulls eye type icons will replace your cursor), and press the mouse. Start filling in the unwanted areas.
Make sure to play around with the brush size and the Opacity!

One half of mine now looks like this (I didn’t do the legs):
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The other half now looks like this (I didn’t do the legs):
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Now, lets work on the legs. I will use the same concept. After finishing both legs, this is what I have:
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Here is the finished product:
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3 Comments »

  • Melanie said:

    You are a genious! Lol now if you could only accomplish this in real life, you’d make millions! Thanks for the step by step, this really helps!  (quote this comment)

  • Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

    You are a genious! Lol now if you could only accomplish this in real life, you’d make millions! Thanks for the step by step, this really helps!  

    hahaha, if only we had a liquify tool. :(   (quote this comment)

  • blacklightning said:

    This was an amazing work of art. If only plastic surgeon can use this technique in a real life. Anyway thanks for this step by step tutorial. I wish you make it in pdf format, so we can download it for easier viewing in the future.  (quote this comment)

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