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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Pinch and Bend Fingers using the Puppet Warp Tool!
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hey everyone my name is Justin from
justice good comm and in this tutorial
I'm going to show you how to pinch and
twist fingers in Photoshop by using the
puppet warp tool alright so this first
picture here is going to be our example
of making a pinch in Photoshop using
puppet warp but the first thing we
actually have to do is cut out the hand
from the background so I'm gonna grab my
quick selection tool I'll keep it on add
to selection mode and use a size that is
relatively easy for me to get into all
the areas of the part of the image I'm
trying to cut up if there's any parts of
the photo that went a little bit too far
like this part you can switch to
subtract from selection maybe lower your
brush size a bit and erase those parts
out so now that we have a pretty good
selection we can even click refine edge
and paint in anything that needs to be
refined but for this hand things were
pretty simple so I'll press ok and now
I'm going to right click and layer via
copy so now I have my hand on its own
layer but I want to get rid of the
background layer completely because well
let me go to pinch the finger we don't
want the old hand still being behind it
so in this case I'm going to press
command and select my hand layer to
reselect that entire selection and then
I'm going to go to select modify expand
and I'm going to expand the selection
ten pixels so now we have a little bit
of a buffer and while I have my
background layer selected I'm going to
right click and fill with content-aware
Photoshop should automatically remove
the entire hand and then I can press
command D and it'll be gone so now when
I go to move this new hand layer
everything behind it is still gonna be
blank so now that we have our hand on
its own layer we go to edit puppet warp
and Photoshop will lay out this grid for
us to drop pins on and warp the hand as
we please
so how it works is you pretty much pin
certain areas down
and then you twist them around to you're
linking so first of all I'm gonna pin
down this part of the hand because I
don't want this part of the hand to move
so I'm going to keep that pin down and
then I'm also going to pin down the top
so the whole forearm we're gonna keep it
pinned down and then you're gonna create
a few anchor points at the places you do
want to move so pretty much at the
joints of the thumb here and then the
joints of the first finger here to start
now I can grab these pin marks and I can
manipulate them left or right whatever
way I want so it's pretty cool and then
I can grab my thumb and I can manipulate
that as well all right so I've made my
hand pinched and if you wanted you could
even create some anchor points on the
other fingers and make them curl in a
bit just to give it a more realistic
look but you get the idea of how this
tool works so I'm gonna show you guys
one more thing you can do so I'll press
ENTER and you guys can see the hand is
no pinched obviously it's not gonna look
super realistic because you are taking
pixels that are flat and you're
stretching and bending them but it's
gonna give off the effect for whatever
image you're trying to create so another
thing we can do is I'm going to show you
guys how to make fingers twist and how
to bring one part of the layer above the
other so here's an image where I already
cut out the hand and it's on a flat
background and I'm gonna make the two
fingers cross like they're telling a lie
or something
so I'll click the hand layer and I'll go
to edit puppet warp and now drop my pins
in the right areas of the joint like
before and then also I'll pin down the
wrist so it doesn't get all wacky and
move out of place
all right so now that I've got the
fingers somewhat crossed you guys could
do a better job making it more realistic
I kind of went overboard if I want one
finger to be in front of the other all I
have to do is click on a pin from that
finger so the first finger and then
select pin depth and you can move it up
or down so I don't know if you guys can
tell but we're making one finger go in
front of the other in this case and you
can see how you could switch back and
forth if things are overlapping to enter
and you can see that the fingers are
crossed
so hopefully this lets you get started
playing around with the puppet warp tool
yourself and you guys can create some
fun stuff you guys there any questions
or comments feel free to leave them
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thank you guys so much for watching and
I'll see you next time
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