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Expanding and contracting the mesh

Expanding and contracting the mesh - Photoshop Tutorial

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Expanding and contracting the mesh

In this exercise I am going to show you how to expand and contract the mesh inside of the Puppet Warp mode and why you might want to do such a thing. I've saved my progress as About yea big.psd, found inside the 23_distort folder. I'm working inside the Puppet Warp mode right now. Up here in the options bar you can see this option called Expansion, and that's the one that we will be working with over the course of this exercise. But before I show you how it works, I want you to note the pins that we have set down so far because one of the unfortunate side effects of modifying that Expansion value especially if you go with a negative value is you end up losing pins inside of your warp. So let's check out the pins that we have so far. I've got three pins in the head, then I've got three pins apiece associated with each one of the arms. I've got a pin in the hand, one in the elbow, one in the shoulder, and then I've got a pin apiece for the love handles here, the thighs, and the knees as…

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