How to make legs longer (or shorter) in a photo

Open Body shaper, choose a photo of someone standing, and move the Legs slider. Above zero the legs get longer, below zero shorter. The rest of the person is not resized: everything above the hips moves up as it is. Compare with the original, then download.

Steps

1. Open Body shaper and choose a photo with the person's hips and at least their knees in view. The photo editor opens with the Body tool, and the body points are found on your device. The first time, a bar shows the download.
2. If there is more than one person, pick one under People (numbered left to right) or tap them on the photo. The largest person is chosen first, and the chosen one is outlined.
3. Under Shape, move Legs. It starts at zero and goes both ways; a double-click sets it back to zero.
4. Look at the floor, the background and the edges of the clothes around the legs. Lower the value if anything there looks stretched.
5. Download. Undo takes back each slider move, and Reset body takes the body changes and pushes off.

How the Legs slider changes the photo

Legs takes the band of the picture from the person's hips to their ankles and stretches it along the direction of the legs. That band runs across the whole width of the photo, so lines along the legs and across them stay straight, and everything above the hips (the body, the face, the background behind them) moves up without changing shape.

Shorter legs work the other way round. The band is squeezed, and the length it loses is given back as an even stretch of the space above the head and below the feet, so the photo keeps its size.

Nothing is drawn in. The photo's own pixels are moved, so the shoes, the floor and the clothes are the ones that were there.

What to check before you share it

Because the stretch runs across the whole picture, everything in that band gets longer too:

• Other people. Anyone standing beside the person, level with their legs, is stretched the same way.
• Patterns. A tiled floor, stripes or a check on trousers or a skirt get longer along the legs. Small values hide this better.
• Anything in front of the legs. A long dress, a coat or a bag hanging below the hips is stretched with them.

When it does little or nothing

The slider needs the hips and the knees or ankles to place the band.

The other body sliders

The same panel has Waist, Hips, Shoulders and Arms, each going both ways from zero, and a Push brush that moves any part of the picture the way you drag. Those sliders change only the chosen person and keep the background still: a wider person covers the background beside them, and a narrower one leaves a gap that a narrow strip of background next to them is stretched across to fill. Level lines in that strip stay level, but an upright line inside it, such as a door frame touching the body, can bend. For the face, use Face shape in the Photo editor or Retouch a face photo.

Your photo stays on your device

The body points are found by a pose model that runs in your browser, and the changes are made there too. The photo is never uploaded, and the saved file has no watermark.