First post - need help on moving body part

[Babuska]

First post. Coming out of lurkdom. Nice site.

I was wondering if someone can point me to some tutorials/books etc., or give me some tips on moving a body part.

In the attached image (if it worked), I want to move the right leg closer to the left leg. I'm having trouble making it look right.

Thanks!

[TylerRB]

Here I've just selected off the right leg, duplicated layer, moved over, and cloned over the original. Also, I duplicated and multiplied just because I thought it looked better.

T

[Flora]

Hi Babuska,

glad you decided to come "out of lurkdom" and joined us!!!

Welcome to RP!

If this is what you had in mind, I got there by:

* Selecting the whole right leg.

* Ctrl+J copied the selection on its own Layer.

* Moved and rotated the top Layer until I had the leg where I wanted it.

* Created a layer mask on the 'rotated' Layer and with a soft black brush (Opacity 30-40%) carefully blended it with the original background.

* Used the Heal Brush (Mode>Replace) to cover what was still visible of the original right leg with the stone ground.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I work with Photoshop CS.

TylerRB,

great job!!

[TylerRB]

Thanks Flora!

I'm pretty much just forcing myself to try and accomplish some of these tasks/challenges when I can. I am pretty new, so hopefully I will slowly gain understanding.

T

[Flora]

Tyler,

you are welcome, and you are surely getting there ....

P.S. couldn't agree more about "forcing myself to try and accomplish some of these tasks/challenges when I can"

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Babuska, like the others I did a copy and paste. However, I moved both legs slightly towards each other, to keep the geometry more correct.

Then cloned and patched to hide legs on Background layer. Was in a bit of a rush, so cloning of grass by her right foot is not as good as it should be. If i had time I'd correct, but it's getting a little late here. (2.25 am).

[Babuska]

Thanks! You certainly did a better job than I did though I'm not sure why. You didn't do anything too much different than I did. Perhaps I was just making it harder than it is? I'll go play some more and find out. Thanks again!

[realaqu]

the displace map filter might be another solution. but I am not quite familiar with this filter, deke mecalland mentioned this method in his book photoshop bible.