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  • How do you show parts of a body shrinking in a photo? Each one individually?

    Posted by Jessica Bern on April 22, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    I use psd’s. I want to show each part of the person’s body shrinking individually, not just the whole body so it’s not about just shrinking the size of the entire photo. Can anyone help me out here?

    Thanks.

    Stephen Smith replied 12 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    April 22, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    Duplicate the body layer as many times as needed for separate body parts.

    Draw masks on each duplicate to isolate a body part.

    Scale each layer down as needed.

    You’ll likely need to reposition the anchor point for each layer so that scaling is done around the appropriate point for each part.

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    https://adobe.ly/AE_basics

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  • Stephen Smith

    April 23, 2014 at 5:28 pm

    Check out these tutorials, they are for vector images but the same principle applies:

    https://motional.net/learn/afx/2d-character-animation-after-effects

    Best of luck.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

  • Jessica Bern

    April 24, 2014 at 3:44 am

    Thank you!

  • Jessica Bern

    April 24, 2014 at 3:45 am

    Thank you.

  • Stephen Smith

    April 24, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    Happy to help and best of luck.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

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