Puppet Warp

[lsin]

Hi damien - is it possible to use puppet warp / liquify to bring the babies head and bum upwards to a more curved position like the photo below from kelly brown? i tried to use puppet warp but the baby ended up looking disfigured!

 

[Damien Symonds]

Please don't upload other people's photos.  It's exceptionally bad manners.  You definitely wouldn't like it other people were doing it with your photos.  Provide a link please.

[lsin]

ok sorry about that - here is the link

 

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

Thank you.

Do you have reason to believe Kelly has used Puppet Warp on her photo?  It seems likely that she posed the baby like that?

[lsin]

oh i know that - i don't think she used it but i have seen before and after of other photographers who have used it and Kelly's pictures are always perfect so i wanted to show that as an example of what i was trying to achieve if possible - i know i should have achieved the look on the day but obviously the baby had other ideas so was just wondering if i could make the baby "curvier" without it looking too fake (sorry for the long post)

[Damien Symonds]

How about this?

[Damien Symonds]

Linda?

[lsin]

ya that looks better - did you use liquify?

[Damien Symonds]

Geez you're hard to impress.

How about this one?

[lsin]

ya i like that one better - what is the best way to do this?

[Damien Symonds]

Ok, I started by duplicating the file, so I could have two copies open side by side on screen.  This was necessary so I could be constantly referring to the original while messing about, so as to keep the child's proportions roughly correct.

Then, on the working one, I duplicated the Background layer, and Edit>Transform>Warp.  And bowed it down as shown:

Once happy with that I went into Liquify, to mess around a bit more, to curve the back a little more, and make the head not so pointy, and so on:

Then I copied the head from the original layer, brought it above, and masked it in:

After your less-than-enthusiastic response, I re-visited that layer and rotated the head a lot more.

[lsin]

ha ha thanks for the re-visit! i will try this tomorrow as it is late here now and i think this will require a lot of concentration and a clear head!! thank you!