Nose job, nose nip tuck, nose enhancement, you can call it however you like, the truth remains, quite a few people out there are not happy with their noses. On today’s tutorial we will see how you can play around with the width and the length of your nose, blood-swelling-risk free.
For this tutorial we will use the laso tool and free transform mainly so its a rather straight forward technique. What is important to remember is that you are aiming for a subtle effect. Any too radical change will make the end result look fake
So lets go into the specifics.

Step 1. Open you picture on your photoshop. We will use a famous nose for ours; that of Barbra Streisand.

Step 2. At this point you need to think a bit like a plastic surgeon. What we can do with Barbra Streisand’s nose is to make look not as long as well as not so wide. So decide beforehand how you want to interfere.

Step 3. Reach out for your lasso tool on the left hand sidebar. The normal lasso tool will do.

Step 4. With your lasso tool selected start drawing around the nose losely. Dont try to draw the exact nose line, its fine if you choose a wider area round the nose.

Step 5. From your top selections bar choose Select->Modify->Feather

Step 6. Choose your layers palette and hit ctrl+J . This will create a layer with the area you outlined with your lasso tool.

Step 7. Choose the nose layer. If the nose area you see is too small or there is some “nose” missing, then reduce the feather tool radius by a few pixels. You should be seeing the entire nose and some surrounding area.

Step 8. Once you are happy with the selected nose area, hit the shortcut for the Free Transform tool, this is Ctrl+T .Alternatively you can find it under the Edit button.

Step 9. What you can do here is move the edges for the Transform tool frame to adjust the length, width and overall size of the nose. If you hold down the ALT key you can move both opposite axises (top-bottom/left-right).

Step 10. Like said in the beginning you want to achieve a subtle result, which in Transform Tool terms means that the percentages on top W and H (for width and height) must never be lower than 90%, ideally it would hover between 95%-100% which reflects how big a change you have done.

Step 11. In our case a 95% seems to be doing the trick and the result.

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