Before and After Picture

jeanniem · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2013 **Posts:** 207

I love this pic of my daughter Brittany, but knew the arm in the background had to go. Then I decided I would attempt to smooth out her skin and enhance her eyes. This is the before and after. I know eyelashes look a little over done but looked great when I printed it out.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Sorry, but I much prefer the "before" picture. The "after" one looks very artificial, with a plastic-like skin. And you somehow managed to distort the picture vertically: in the original picture the pupils and the tip of the nose are in an equilateral triangle; while; in the "after" picture, the equilateral triangle with a side across the pupils is almost on the mouth.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:27 pm **(#3)**

I actually think the effect you got on the picture is pretty cool.

I agree with ofnuts on the aspect ratio. It got stretched out of proportion when you resized.

jeanniem · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2013 **Posts:** 207

Yeah I am really struggling with to resize a picture without distorting it. I clicked the little chain when I resized so I don't know.

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:50 pm **(#5)**

jeanniem wrote:

Yeah I am really struggling with to resize a picture without distorting it. I clicked the little chain when I resized so I don't know.

If you scale an image using the "Scale tool" :scale

and you click on the chain and it separates, you will be able to scale the image in all directions without keeping it in proportion.

If the chain in unbroken, the image will remain in proportion as you scale it.

Make note of the chain in both "Scale Tool" dialogs.

Graechan · **Posted:** Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:14 pm **(#6)**

I like the Waterpaint effect and the scaling problem is easy to fix