You are going to love this one! It’s the perfect Photoshop tool for when the camera caught you at a bad angle and you just couldn’t possible share that photo with anyone…in fact….all of those glamour models in the fashion magazines that line the shelves of our shops – if you think they really have those skinny little legs you had better think again! Photoshop is your instant glamorize! A girls best friend ;)

 

*important comment* I just wanted to say that I like to think every body out there is happy with themselves and I don’t like to promote a size zero society in any way! This tutorial isn’t aimed at telling everyone that they have to be skinny or need to lose any extra cm.

It wasn’t easy choosing a picture for this tutorial either, so I settled on a picture of Tyra Banks, being a confident woman who has handled the medias ‘fat slander’ with grace and poise!

 

So here it is! How to lose a few inches in a matter of seconds!

 

With your image open in Photoshop, select (along the top menu) Filter – Liquify.

 

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Where to find Liquify

 

A screen is going to pop up with your liquify options in it.

 

Selecting your Pucker tool from the left side of the screen – then setting the brush size (make it so that the circle just touches the edges of the section you are trying to pucker. Set your brush density to around 20 – 30.

 

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Where to find the pucker tool.

 

Now holding the brush over the section you want to pucker, do very short and quick clicks of the left mouse button. The longer you hold it the more it puckers and you just end up distorting your picture.

 

If you mess up – click ctrl+z to undo last action. If you mess up a whole bunch – click the “Restore All” button on the right tool boxes. That will restore the picture to its original state so you can start again.

 

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Another tool that you might find handy is the very top one on the left menu bar – this tool just lets you move items in your frame around. Use it to push rather than pull. In other words – you want to move a hand a little left in the picture – don’t drag inside the hand, rather click and drag outside – pushing the hand. (hope that makes sense!)

 

If you find that you ‘puckered’ too much, right underneath the pucker tool is the bloat tool which does the opposite.

With both of these tools – LESS IS MORE, as distortion occurs very easily.

 

When you are all done you can click OK.

 

Magic!

 

 

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