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Winding an image into a pretzel

Winding an image into a pretzel - Photoshop Tutorial

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Winding an image into a pretzel

Obviously, I've had a fair amount of fun with this file since you last saw it. It's now called Levitating lotus.psd, found inside the 23_distort folder. I brought the guy's arms back up, because I thought they looked just terrible behind his back. But I've stretched the heck out of his legs, so if you sort of track what's going on here, we start off with this right-hand foot, and we wind all the way in back, and then we go up and forward into his pelvis, and then around to the right, and all the way over to the left, in a single stacking order direction. So in other words, starting with this right-hand foot here, we're constantly moving forward as I trace my way over to the left-hand foot. Now, imagine that instead of doing that, instead of that continuous stacking order forward, we were to wind the legs into a pretzel shape, so that portions of the layer were both in back of and in front of each other. Now, that's something you can do using Puppet Warp that you cannot otherwise do…

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