Double chin

[norcal]

I am new to photoshop. I have a picture that I want to get rid of my double chin. All I have on my laptop right now is paint so that is what I used. How can I make it better? Anyone want to take a whack at it? I'm the one in the blue(left).

Original
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr212/lissette10_photo/102_0509.jpg

1st try
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr212/lissette10_photo/1.jpg (http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr212/lissette10_photo/1.jpg)

[SharLamb]

Double CHIN????? I don't see a double chin in the "before!" ROTF....I'd KILL for that "double chin!"
Shar

[Bayla]

Just what I was thinking Shar.:D On holiday this year, my 4 year old granddaughter asked 'why do you have two chins?':eek: I am the world's expert at looking up at the camera so that you can't see the spare tyre beneath my (first) chin. And believe me, that is very hard to do when you are sucking in your breath at the same time so that your stomach looks reasonably flat (I'm waiting for my darling granddaughter to ask me when my baby is due....)

Bayla

[CarolLHB]

LOL...your double looks like my first!

But to answer your question-I generally use the liquify filter and just nudge that sucker up a teeny bit at a time. It requires patience or you end up looking really weird!:D

[Daviskw]

I think you did an excellent job!...but just for fun I played a little too.

I usually remove the shadow of the double chin... then as others... finish up with the liquify tool.

To remove the shadow I used a levels layer and increased the luminosity, center slider, at least enough to cancel out the shadow... Then inverted the mask to hide the adjustment.

Then with a low opacity soft white brush I paint slowly over the shadow until it is gone. If the color does not match then I group a blank layer set to color mode and sample and paint with good color.

Butch

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1Delcade9NQLKMvGsl49XP5ilTJZ6m_thumb.gif (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1Delcade9NQLKMvGsl49XP5ilTJZ6m)

[CarolLHB]

Actually-I fooled with this and had better luck on this pic with the clone stamp and healing brush due to the deep shadowing...:rolleyes:

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1yXbqtkqpMlqX8MF4zmiFPRuymBt1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1yXbqtkqpMlqX8MF4zmiFPRuymBt1)

[CarolLHB]

Great idea, Butch-one for the files-thanks!

Butch, how do you animate like that-very cool!

[Daviskw]

Thanks Carol...soooo many ways... yours looks great...the best

I remember how frustrated I was with all the different ways to do the same thing in Elements... I had wished there were strict rules and only one way...a lot easier to remember.

But of course flexibility it is the magic in the program.

Butch

[norcal]

wow! both look great thanx! can i use these?

[Diana]

Carol & Butch, you both did a great job. Butch, I love the animation. It's a wonderful way to show a before and after.

Diana

[epaul6]

Matt Klosklowski's PSE Restoration and Retouching book has a few lessons on removing double chins and neck thinning by making selections, using free transform, clone stamp, blend modes and the Distort filter-pinch mode.