PhotoPower wrote:
I sometime use it to add just the tiniest bit of pop to eyes. But with the images from the 7D the gentle touch pops the eye up big as a frog! Can I adjust this? I tried the three adjustments available in the command panel and still the eyes bulge out like frogs...W

Sounds like you're using the Bloat tool to enlarge eyes. If so, there are better ways than any of the Liquify tools for that purpose -- ways that won't distort the eye.

Peano wrote:
Sounds like you're using the Bloat tool to enlarge eyes. If so, there are better ways than any of the Liquify tools for that purpose -- ways that won't distort the eye.

care to share a link? googling will surely provide liquify- and other- "incorrect" methods, and it's not very informative to tell someone they're doing something wrong without offering a more correct solution.

Mask Photo wrote:
care to share a link? googling will surely provide liquify- and other- "incorrect" methods, and it's not very informative to tell someone they're doing something wrong without offering a more correct solution.

I didn't mean to say it's wrong to use Liquify, but if he's using the Bloat tool, that does distort the shape of the eye. Here's a way that doesn't distort it:

1. Make a selection around the eye like this:


2. Hit Ctrl-J to copy the selection to a new layer. Hit Ctrl-T to get a transform bounding box around that piece. In the toolbar, click the link icon to preserve aspect ratio. Click in either the H or W window and use the up arrow to increase the eye around 3 to 5 percent.


3. Put a mask on that layer and paint with black using a soft brush to blend the edge of the enlarged piece. Repeat 1-3 for the other eye using the same percentage enlargement.


This is a 5 percent enlargement:


EDIT: You can use the same technique to alter nose or mouth. Here, just for purposes of illustration, I made the eyes 5 percent larger and the nose and mouth slightly smaller:

Peano wrote:
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As always, THANK YOU Peano for sharing !

Tat Leong wrote:

As always, THANK YOU Peano for sharing !

+1

Great technique and examples.  Thanks!

Peano wrote:
I didn't mean to say it's wrong to use Liquify, but if he's using the Bloat tool, that does distort the shape of the eye. Here's a way that doesn't distort it:

hurrhurr. I was thinking to myself "well, the only way i can think to do it would be to actually enlarge each eye, but that can't be what he's thinking of"

simplest solutions are the best, I guess.

though wouldn't using bloat with a large radius AND a brush density of near 100 preserve the center of the bloated area? I guess it would scrunch the pores at the edges, though, which would make them look funkay.