Lightroom and PSE Tips for Weight Loss
by Lee on Jun.04, 2015, under Articles, Lightroom, Monday Morning Tips, Photo Editing, Photoshop Elements
Lightroom Tip for Shaving 10 LBS
Dr. Oz and the TV infomercials have nothing on this quick & dirty tip for slimming down a person in a photo. This first tip is for Lightroom. In the next section, I’ll tell you how to do this in PSE and the differences between the two.
Here’s Tylor, a cute 17 year old, aspiring pin-up model in San Diego before she moved to New York. She’s not fat by any means but has the curves of a pin-up model.
In the second photo, I used Lightroom’s Lens Correction controls to elongate her and shaved off 10 pounds. In the process, I made her legs a bit longer in comparison to her torso while still keeping the “curves.” The third image is a screen capture of the controls I used in LR.
I first used the Vertical Perspective Correction to “lean” the top of the image back. That causes her to become slightly elongated. Next I used the Scale Correction to enlarge the image back to it’s original aspect ratio. Finally, using the Aspect Correction, I “squeezed” in the sides to shave off a few pounds that were added when I made her appear taller.
This next photo was edited in Photoshop Elements 9 (see below as to why I didn’t use PSE13.)
Here, I simply used the Free Transform tool to slightly squeeze in the sides and elongate the photo to shave off a few pounds. While this technique is quick, I don’t like it as much because she’s lost her curves. She appears just skinny as opposed to tall and full figured. You can do the same thing with the Distortion tool.
PSE13 Issues
It seems that PSE13 needs/wants me to be logged into my Adobe Account to be launched. It may be my security features but, for some reason, PSE13 always throws a dialog box telling me, “Sign In Required.” None of my other Adobe products including Lightroom4 & 6, PS4 nor PSE 9 throws that dialog box. Until I can figure out a workaround, I refuse to use PSE13. I have a suspicion Adobe can’t add much more functionality to PSE without cannibalizing PS sales so they’re collecting user data to monetize to improve PSE margins.
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