How to Fake Fitness in Family Photos

Concerned that you look larger than life in familywhere you just cloned background over your
photos? Shocked by the images you see after aprotrusion. Smudge toward your body, pulling in the
shutterbug hits? Not to worry. Just follow mypixels. This flattens your belly better than any stupid
solution for faking fitness in family photos and youcrunches. If you have chub in your cheeks, move the
too can look fabulous.smudge tool over your hair and wisp it onto your
Why go through the hassle of reductive surgery orcheeks. This reduces the amount of cheek showing
sweet deprivation when I have perfected photoand gives the impression of a thinner face, but don't
fitness retouching? On a good day, I can whack offoverdo with the hairdo.
10 to 20 pounds from wide format originals and thenOpen the resize object tool. Reduce the width of
share the moments with the whole family. No painyour photo by 10 or so pixels while keeping the
for the gain.length the same. Everyone in the photo gets thinner -
Let's begin with the two fundamental ways to altervery fair. Speaking of fair, find dark areas like under
your ego through your images: retouching andyour eyes and use the brightness tool to lighten
reprinting existing photos, and the use of digitalthem a couple of steps. Don't go overboard or you
techniques.will be discovered and you will ruin it for all of us.
If you want to look your best with standard prints,The finishing touch is to apply a slight blur to the
you are stuck with scanning, retouching and reprintingwhole photo. This reduces pore size and fades age
photos using photo imaging software and yourspots better than nobody's business. Sure, you won't
computer. This took so much time that I went outend up on the cover of Cosmo but you will be
and bought my brother-in-law, Don, the familyunexplainably photogenic. Just smile and say, "Pass
cameraman, a digital. It was worth the small fortunethe cheese."
so that I could look like a million. He thought I wasBefore long you will be manipulating your images like
very generous. So did I, hence the camera purchase.Bill Clinton in an election year.
And once you've gone digital, you'll never go back.These illusions will make you feel better unless some
The techniques are the same whether you scan andstupid relative passes around their own photos. For
retouch or just download and retouch.me, the solution to this has been to take control the
Let's focus on the reduction techniques. You shouldfamily photos and rule them like a tyrannical despot.
get familiar with the clone, smudge, re-size, lightenThe time spent "working on" and making copies of
and blur tools your new best friends. These littlephotos for the family makes for a few less home
helpers work effectively to dwarf your stomach,cooked dishes but I haven't missed any meals.
thighs, cheeks and backside. Hi ho.To date, no one has caught on to my fake fitness
This no-fuss, no muss elective procedure begins withroutine. Once, my husband once threatened to
cloning. Clone a small portion of the area in yourexpose my photo fitness techniques to the family.
photo front of your stomach, buttocks or thighsAfter I threatened to stop making desserts, he kept
over this area, replacing it ever so slightly.his aperture shut.
Next, take the smudge tool. Go over the edges