Removing skin flab

Hello All,

Really need some help here. I'm post processing this shot for a model and can't for the life of me remove the skin flab by her hip where the rings are.

Any help is appreciated.

tia

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The problem is not the skin, but the rings. The missing parts, I mean. Do you have another photo of the rings at a similar angle, but not obscured at the top?

By the way, the discontinuity of the pattern in the background is a dead giveaway of liquifying. Be careful of that. You don't want your work to end up here.

Unfortunately, all the other shots are pretty much the same or the rings are hardly showing.

Damo77 wrote in post #11895437
By the way, the discontinuity of the pattern in the background is a dead giveaway of liquifying. Be careful of that. You don't want your work to end up here.

lol...How would you go about slimming the hip/butt without disrupting the background?

This is quick and dirty, but you could use the pen tool to outline the shape of the ring and then paint in the part that's missing. Then clone out shadows of the flab above the rings.

tcc wrote in post #11895520
lol...How would you go about slimming the hip/butt without disrupting the background?

You have to clone extra background onto a new layer. Then mask it in after the liquifying is done.

Damn Peano, that looks good, thanks.

Thanks Damo77.

tcc wrote in post #11895604
Damn Peano, that looks good, thanks.

Thank you. Make a mask something like this on blank layer and then paint. Try filling it in with solid gray, then add blacks and whites to give it form. You can also do these on separate layer to make it easier to back up and make corrections.

How did you get the curve so smooth and uniform Peano?

Damo77 wrote in post #11895437
By the way, the discontinuity of the pattern in the background is a dead giveaway of liquifying. Be careful of that. You don't want your work to end up here.

I don't see that. Are you talking about the sort of cross-hatched background?

Yes, can't you see where it's kinda bulged (adjacent to the flab)?

Damo77 wrote in post #11896433
Yes, can't you see where it's kinda bulged (adjacent to the flab)?

It looks like the cross-hatch is kinda smashed tighter and is also discolored. Is that what you mean?

Yep, it's smashed tighter near her body, and stretched just beyond that.

I didn't know that was from liquifying, I thought maybe it was from cloning or something else.
Thanks

tcc wrote in post #11896047
How did you get the curve so smooth and uniform Peano?

The pen tool.