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Introducing the Puppet Warp command

Introducing the Puppet Warp command - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Puppet Warp command

I have saved my progress as Extracted dude.psd found inside the 23_distort folder, so called because the jumpist layer has been extracted from the sky & grass background. Now let's go ahead and click on jumpiest. And getting to Puppet Warp is as simple as going up to the Edit menu and choosing the Puppet Warp command. But before you do that pause for a moment, because when you choose Puppet Warp the idea is you are going to lay down a bunch of pins and drag them to different locations, and then you are going to invoke the feature, and it's an independent transformation mode, much like Free Transform by the way. So when you apply it you are actually rewriting pixels inside the image. Now with Free Transform that tends to work okay, because you usually get it right while you are in the Free Transform mode. You usually get it pretty well figured out, but with Puppet Warp you might sort of zoom in later and figure out that you've got problems, and you may want to make modifications. So…

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