Ok, so i am exploring the whole "airbrushing" thing and saw a technique on the Dove campaign for beauty ad that most people have probably seen by now where the eyes were enlarged using what looked like a simple procedure - selecting a circle round the eyes and then transforming them so they got larger, the only thing is that when that happens the cut out interferes with the rest of the image - ie you get a very distinct line marking your selection, expecially if you arent enlarging but shirinking - because then you just get white space or the layer below

Is there any way to shrink (or enlarge) any part of an image and "pulling" the adjacent pixels around as if they were stuck to the selected part of the image in a sort of morph?  Or will i have to paint/heal in the difference?

I have tried to find a tutorial on this but dont know what it is i am looking for exactly (terminology-wise).  I hope you understand what it is i am asking

I normally do something like that on a separate layer (make selection, then hit Ctrl-J to copy and lift the selection into its own layer), and then I make the edges fuzzy via a layer mask after shrinking it or enlarging it.

But yeah, you can paint/heal the lines away. There are so many ways to do this, really, that there's no wrong answer.

hrm - actually modifying a duplicate layer and then using the healing brush set to "all-layers" seems to do the trick... and quite amazingly well.  Question still stands about doing that transform thing with the pixels on the outside of the selected area "stuck" to the selection... tho i dont think it would do a better job than what i just managed with the above experimentation

oh - oops cross posted... thanks for the added idea tho :)  What really amazes me is how easy it was for me to do that... i just managed to do the following in the time since my first post to this post:

Enlarged both eyes
Shrank a nose
Enlarged the mouth...
and then healed it all up...
and all looks as if there is absolutely no modification done to it - if anything i beleive it would pass as being a professional job...

Photoshop never ceases to amaze me...

For pixels outside a selected area ... well ... I just make a bigger selection, really. :) Or, sometimes, I use the Distort in Transform ... as in the case of this:

http://www.fotosearch.com/DGV608/1070025/

to this:

http://graphicfantastic.com/galleries/covers/tagsfolly.html

I needed to make a bigger butt, but I had to keep the outline of the dress consistent, so I selected the butt, enlarged it, then used Edit > Transform > Distort to line the top of the butt to the hip and waist. You can do something similar with Liquify, too.

Oh, and I agree about Photoshop being amazing. I've had a lot of fun over the years manipulating photos.

When they did it in the Dove film, they most likely (to do it fast and on the same layer - I'm with aprilgem on this one as I think it's psychotic to do it all on the same layer) had the Lasso Tool already set with a decently heavy feathered edge - that way it would blend with the surrounding skin.

Great video - I think every teenage girl (and numerous adults, for that matter!) should see that!

@ aprilgem - loved your image manipulation work (while I like bigger butts, I'm actually talking about the work you did on this image ;-) )! Looks flawless! Here's something you might love to use in the future - instead of clicking "Distort" try out "Warp"! This'll blow your mind as it's almost a slimmed down Liquify function - where you can bend the inside of the selected area. Many a panoramic of clouds have been lined up and matched with that function - have fun!

-Lew ;-)

Would LOVE to use Warp, but I don't think it's available on my version of PS. I'm still on 6.0. :)

Bummer - yep, it's on CS2 - sorry!

yes,photoshop 8

you need a new version!