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Using a foam model to style clothing

Using a foam model to style clothing - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using a foam model to style clothing

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In this next segment, I'd like to introduce you to the benefits of using a posable foam model for garment styling. There's a lot of advantages to this over some of the other methods of posing. Most particularly since you can manipulate the model into different positions, you get the benefits of photography on figure without the expenses of a model and then as soon as you get a model in the studio you usually need hair, and makeup people and the expenses just mount. Where a posable foam mannequin like this, this size cost less than $100. You can find them at interestingly enough, a flooring manufacturer. Soft and Safe Floor makes one almost identical to this. When we initially purchased this, it did come with a head. We did a headectomy in order to make it more workable for some of the garment styling we're going to do. And I'll show you why we cut this out the way we did, as soon as we get the the garment on figure. But its posability is one of the things I like, the other advantage…

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