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Extending an image with Free Transform

Extending an image with Free Transform - Photoshop Tutorial

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Extending an image with Free Transform

All right, now let's take a look at a more advanced application of Puppet Warp inside a Photoshop. I am working inside of an image called Rope trick.psd, and the base image, the one of the hands pulling at the rope right there, the tug-of-war image, comes to us from photographer James Steidl of the Fotolia image library, but the actual image looks something like this. If I go over to Layers panel, you can see I have a couple of layers. I will turn off the top layer heart, and that's the image as it first appeared when I downloaded it, more or less was. It was actually shorter than this. It didn't have this much rope. And eventually what did, I went ahead and lengthened the amount of rope between the two hands, and then I used Puppet Warp in order to take that lengthened amount of rope and actually warp it into a heart shape, so that we have a little bit of cooperation. Don't you know? These guys are struggling, and then somehow they end up finding a happy medium, or something along…

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