Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Super Slimmers

Photoshop has a slew of tools you can use to do some serious slimming like fixing flabby chins, shrinking paunchy waistlines, and instantly shaving off pounds. Tools of the body-sculpting trade include the Pinch and Liquify filters, and the Free Transform command. They’re all explained in this section.

Fixing Flabby Chins

You can suck the life out of a flabby chin with the Pinch filter. Sure it sounds gross, but it makes a huge difference and takes mere seconds. All you have to do is duplicate the image layer and then make a rough selection—the Lasso tool works well—that includes the flab and some of the surrounding details, as shown in Figure 10-12, bottom left. Next, choose Filter→Distort→Pinch. In the resulting dialog box, enter 100 in the Amount field, and then click OK. If you need to pinch the chin a little more, press ⌘-F (Ctrl+F) to run the filter again. Easy, huh?

Figure 10-12. Top: If you click in the Pinch dialog box’s preview window and hold down your mouse button, Photoshop shows you the pre-pinched version of the image. You can drag to move the image around (your cursor turns into a little hand like the one circled here). Use the + and – buttons below the preview window to zoom into or out of your image. Bottom: If you duplicate the image layer by pressing ⌘-J (Ctrl+J) before running the filter, you won’t harm the original image. (Alternatively, you can convert ...