Photoshop offers a bag of tricks that makes pulling portraits into new shapes all kinds of fun. In this tutorial, we’ll take inspiration from Christian Girotto’s surreal series of portraits and show you how to turn an adult into a grumpy child.
To reverse the aging process, it’s worth thinking about the differences between a child’s and an adult’s facial features. In general, children have smaller noses, less defined cheeks, chubbier features, bigger eyes and flatter eyebrows. We can make all these alterations with the amazing Liquify filter, which enables you to push, pull and morph pixels. Once done, we’ll finish off by removing any other tell-tale signs of age, like wrinkles and blemishes, then add rosy cheeks.
We’ve used two portraits, taken moments apart. For the second shot we…