Face Sculpting S
oftware engineers at Adobe keep coming up with brilliant ideas to expand Photoshop’s capabilities. A recent development gives us the ability to sculpt faces -- and by that I mean we can actually change the features of a face. The mouth, nose, jaw line, eyes, length of the chin and shape of the face can all be tweaked for better or for worse. You can make a face more beautiful and you can do the opposite. It’s quite intriguing and it definitely has applications in perfecting portraiture and travel pictures.
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For example, study the portrait below. The original version is on the left. In the modified rendition on the right, I enlarged the eyes slightly, narrowed the face and jaw line, and decreased the width of the model’s mouth. The before and after portrait on the next page was similarly sculpted. I narrowed the nose, enlarged and widened the eyes, narrowed the young woman’s face, shortened the forehead slightly, and decreased the space between the
