How to Make a Person Look Thinner in an Aperture
Aperture is a photo organizing and editing application developed by Apple. Unlike Adobe Photoshop or Corel PaintShop Photo image editing applications, Aperture does not have a handy tool feature specifically designed to make a person look thinner in a picture. With a little work, however, you can use Aperture’s “clone” tool to accomplish this task. The clone tool allows you to copy details from one area of a picture and insert them into another area. This can be used to change the position of a person’s contour line to make him look thinner.
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Instructions
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Launch the Aperture application. Select the image you want to touch up.
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Click the “Full Screen” button in the upper-right corner of the aperture window to display the image in full size. You can also accomplish this task by pressing “Z.”
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Press “X” to display the “Retouch” HUD. You can also access this HUD by selecting “Retouch” from the “Adjustment” drop-down menu located in the left-side window panel.
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Click the “Clone” radio button in the “Retouch” HUD.
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Use the setting sliders in the “Retouch” HUD to adjust the “Radius,” “Softness” and “Opacity” levels of the retouch brush to suit your preference.
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Hold down the “Option” key and click on a section of the person’s waist, arm or thigh contour line to select a sample of the area.
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Use the computer mouse to brush over an area of the picture towards the center of the person’s body. Move the position of the person’s contour line inwards to make the person appear thinner than the picture suggests.
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Repeat Steps 5 through 7 as many times as needed to completely change the position of the person’s contour line.
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Tips & Warnings
If you ever need to delete a brush stroke you have made, click the “Delete” button located in the “Retouch” area of the left-side window panel. Brush strokes are deleted in the reverse order each stroke was made.
