RIAN 4

[lsin]

Hi Damien, what is the best way to clone out the umbilical cord in the below pic (SOOR from raw class) - i tried it but not very successful 

[Damien Symonds]

Well, I figured that the shape and shadowing where the tummy met the elbow was similar enough to use for the place where the tummy meets the knee.  So I selected that chunk ...

... then Cmd J to put it on its own layer.  Then I flipped it and rotated it, and moved it into place:

Then masked it in.  Then balanced out the shading and colouring using the handyman method:

This is what my layers panel looks like:

Does it look ok?

[lsin]

finding this really difficult - how does this look?

[Damien Symonds]

It doesn't have to be good, it just has to look good.  This looks fine.