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Adjust height of person sitting on couch

New Here ,
Nov 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023

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Hi! This has me completely stumped! As you will all notice, I am not an expert at photoshop, by a long shot!

 

I want to make the 2 end characters taller. Our kids are as tall as me (mom. Far right) but the lady who did the cartoon did not follow instruction and made them too short. 

how would I go about fixing this? If possible?

 

TIA

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Community Expert , Nov 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023

That's not an easy fix for a beginner.  The girls are not going to respond to any of the automatic selection tools as it is, but if you drag a rectangular selection around the girls and copy to a new layer, and then turn the other layers off, Select Subject gets quite close.  Definitely close enough for a reasonably easy clean up.

Of course, I didn't think of that till after I made a clipping path 😞

 

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Making them bigger is not completely straight forward.  Use the shift to make them taller b

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Nov 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023

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Make a selection of the 2 end characters and move them to a new layer.

Then convert them to a smart object and adjust their size and/or position..

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That's not an easy fix for a beginner.  The girls are not going to respond to any of the automatic selection tools as it is, but if you drag a rectangular selection around the girls and copy to a new layer, and then turn the other layers off, Select Subject gets quite close.  Definitely close enough for a reasonably easy clean up.

Of course, I didn't think of that till after I made a clipping path 😞

 

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Making them bigger is not completely straight forward.  Use the shift to make them taller but not wider, and right click and choose Warp to get everything into place.  I had to do a bit of clean up after that, but it is super easy with the cartoon colours.

 

Is your upload the size it was supplied to you?  It's not especiially big, and are the girls big enough compared to mum and dad now?

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Nov 24, 2023 Nov 24, 2023

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Awesome! Thank you so much. I definitely learned something here. Yes, that is the original file size. I had a lady on Etsy do this. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a language barrier and i kind of gave up and just said, it's fine.

 

I told her, My girl in blue is a smidge taller than my girl in pink. She made my girl in pink taller 😞 Then i asked for the girls to be as tall as me and no response. Hence, why i gave up!

 

Im going to play around with it like you mentioned, and see what i can come up with.

 

Thank you!

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You are going to find that after making the girls taller, they are not going to perfectly cover and hide the original.  Remember Free Transform and hold down Shift to makee them taller, and before you OK that, right click and choose Warp.  Then carefully move individual parts of the image to cover the original as best you can.

 

When done, make a new layer between the original and new enlarged girls layer, and paint over any of the original  girls that are spilling out from behind the enlarged girls.  Alt click with the brush selected to sample the colour.  You don't need to be accurate as the new girls layer will hide errent pixels.  The solid colours of the catroon are going to make this bit super easy.

 

When you've got a clean selection of the girls, you need to save it in case things go pear shapped enlarging a copy of the girls.  If you Save Selection it will create a new Alpha channel, but the way I usually do it is to fill it with black in a new layer that I hide at the bottom of the stack.  You can Ctrl click to reload the selection, and something I do a lot is to clip to those template layers.  Not relevant in this case, but a good tool to have in your Photoshop box of tricks.

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The way clipping works is you right click the layer above the template layer, and choose Create Cliiping mask.  You can see that the brown rectangle 'layer 2' is confined to the shape of the layer it is clipped to.  This is especially useful when warping, which is not easy to get exactly where you need it to be.

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