How to make large girls look good

[hunter]

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

 

[Robert Williams80668]

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face
is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

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One suggestion in some of the Kelby books is to select all, transform and drag the side slider until the %=95; then crop the extra mat. This gives a little slimmer look. Any more will look distorted or out of character. There are also techniques to trim a little off arms, legs or buttocks. They involve selecting a little of the excess baggage and move it in a little.

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[Isabel Cutler62850]

A little Photoshop dieting can be done by making a large selection around an area that is too wide - including a lot of the background, feathering it quite a bit (20 pixels?) and then going to filter/distort/pinch and playing with the slider. I little experimentation will teach you how to use this method. I've used it on inflated middles...never on a face, however.

Isabel

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face
is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

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[Paul Demers]

I know there are certain camera angles, and lighting techniques that can make a big difference. I just don't know what they are. Use appropriate angles and lighting, then finish up in PS. Make sure she is wearing appropriate clothing also.

PAUL

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face
is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

 

[Bill_Turner]

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face
is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

I shot this today.... I removed about 50lbs by using the transform tool as mentioned above and some healing brush.



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[Rommaker]

I know there are certain camera angles, and lighting techniques
that can make a big difference. I just don't know what they are.
Use appropriate angles and lighting, then finish up in PS. Make
sure she is wearing appropriate clothing also.

PAUL

Paul,

I think those are all excellent suggestions, and I offer the following photo to back it up. Very little PP on this shot ... a little USM and noise reduction.

I think the pose and the clothing choice made all of the difference here. It didn't hurt that she has a radiant smile!



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[Paul Demers]

I reduced your pic to 92 percent just to show effect. I am not saying this is an improvement, and 94 percent would have worked better.. Just wanted to show simple edit and results. hope you dont mind

Paul

I know there are certain camera angles, and lighting techniques
that can make a big difference. I just don't know what they are.
Use appropriate angles and lighting, then finish up in PS. Make
sure she is wearing appropriate clothing also.

PAUL

Paul,

I think those are all excellent suggestions, and I offer the
following photo to back it up. Very little PP on this shot ... a
little USM and noise reduction.
I think the pose and the clothing choice made all of the difference
here. It didn't hurt that she has a radiant smile!



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[Drew Conway]

You can check out the 2nd edition of Katrin Eismann's book- Photoshop Restoration and Retouching. She talks about stuff like this in there.

I have a client who is 40, 190 lb, 5'4", great skin, and hair, face
is too round.
Need to do a portfolio
Any suggestions
Thanks

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[Clivegriff]

How to make large girls look good?

Easy.

Point the camera at them.

Press the shutter.

Large girls ALWAYS look good.

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[HowieH]

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[timned88]

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

actually, you can make them look good at the time the picture is taken simply by having the subject lean toward you (NEVER (!) away from you) and lift the chin to look straight at the camera...this tends to tighten up some loose areas around the neck face and the perspective is more flattering...also, go for tighten zooms/crops to trim away excess areas (i.e. NO wide angles)...

just some ideas...
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