The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers- P9:This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. | The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers Slimming Thighs and Buttocks This is a technique I picked up from Helene DeLillo chat works great for trim-ming up thighs and buttocks by repositioning parts of the existing areas. It s deceptively simple and amazingly effective. Step One Open the photo that you need to retouch Step Two Get the Lasso tool from the Toolbox and make a selection loosely around rhe area you want to retouch. It s important to select some background area as shown here because that background will be used to cover over the existing area. The more you need to trim from the person the more background area you need to select. 226 Chapter 7 Body Sculpting The Photoshop Book tor Digital Photographers Step Three Once you have your selection in place press Command- PC Control- to put the selected area up on its own layer. Step Four Press v to switch to the Move tool click on the area you had selected it s on its own separate layer now and drag inward toward the rest of her body. You re literally moving the edge of her body inward thereby reducing the width of her thigh and buttocks. Step Five When you do this you ll usually have a small chunk of the old body left over that you ll have to remove from the original Background layer. Use the Zoom tool to zoom in then click on the Background layer. Get the Clone Stamp tool make sure its Mode in the Options Bar is set to Normal and Option-dick PC Alt-dick in an area very near where you need to retouch as shown here where I sampled from the area just next to the tiny chunk at the base of her spine . Then clone the background over the body to produce smooth curves. Continued Body Sculpting Chapter 7 227 The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers Step Six After you ve removed hose little chunks I know chunks probably isn t rhe best word to use. but yet on some level it fits this side of the retouch is done. Now on to the other thigh. Step Seven This time we re going to select the bottom of her
