Change body proportions in a photo
Waist, hips, legs, shoulders and arms, each on a slider that starts at zero and goes both ways. It all happens on your device.
Drop a photo of a person, or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. It stays on your device.
How to change body proportions in a photo
- Choose a photo. It opens in the photo editor with the Body tool ready, and the body points and the person's outline are found on your device. The first time, a bar shows the download.
- Pick the person. With more than one person, choose them under People (numbered left to right) or tap them on the photo. The largest person is chosen first, and the chosen one is outlined.
- Move the sliders. Waist, Hips, Legs, Shoulders and Arms each start at zero and go both ways. Double-click a slider to set it back to zero.
- Push by hand if you need to. Turn on Push brush, set Brush size and Strength, and drag on the photo: that part of the picture moves the way you drag. Clear pushes takes them all off.
- Download. Compare with the original first. Undo steps back one slider move or one push at a time.
What each slider does
- Waist
- Above zero draws the sides of the waist in; below zero lets them out. It is placed from the shoulders and hips, so both need to be in the photo.
- Hips
- Above zero widens the hips; below zero narrows them.
- Legs
- Above zero stretches the picture from the hips to the ankles, so the legs are longer; below zero shortens them. Lines along and across the legs stay straight.
- Shoulders
- Above zero broadens the shoulders; below zero narrows them.
- Arms
- Above zero slims each arm along its length; below zero makes it fuller.
People use it to adjust a photo's composition, to match a costume or a character design, to make an art or pose reference, or to take back the widening a wide-angle lens gives someone standing near the edge of the frame, where a wide lens stretches people sideways.
Several people in one photo
When more than one person is found, a row of chips (Person 1, Person 2..., numbered left to right) appears above the sliders. The largest person is chosen first; tap another chip, or tap the person on the photo, to change who is shaped. The chosen person is outlined, and the sliders change only them. People standing close together or hugging can still move a little with each other, because the warp reaches a short way past the person.
Push brush for what the sliders do not reach
The sliders follow the body points. For anything else, such as a fold of a shirt or the line of a sleeve, turn on Push brush and drag on the photo: the picture under the brush moves in the direction of the drag, the way a liquify tool works. Brush size sets how wide it reaches and Strength how far it moves. Each drag is one undo step, and Clear pushes removes every push. Pushes go where you put them, on the person or anywhere else in the picture.
What happens to your photo
The body points (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, ankles) are found by a pose model that runs in your browser, together with the person's outline. They are downloaded once and found once per photo. Each slider then moves the photo's own pixels with smooth local warps placed from those points. Nothing is generated or painted in.
The person's outline keeps the background still. Where a slider makes someone wider, they cover the background beside them, which does not move. Where it makes them narrower, the gap is filled by stretching a narrow strip of background next to them straight across, so level lines there stay level, and nothing past that strip moves. An upright line inside the strip, such as a door frame touching the waist, can still bend. Legs works differently: it stretches the band from the hips to the ankles across the whole picture, so everything above the hips moves up unchanged. Shorter legs give the lost length back as an even stretch of the space above the head and below the feet, so the photo keeps its size.
Undo, redo, your drafts in Recent work and the saved file all keep the changes. A large photo is saved in the background, so the page does not freeze. It is free, with no sign-up and no watermark, and the photo never leaves your device. For the Legs slider step by step, see how to make legs longer or shorter in a photo.
Related tools
- Retouch face: Smooth skin, even out redness, whiten teeth and brighten eyes, on one face or all.
- Photo editor: Crop, adjust, filter, add text, emoji, blur and frames, with undo.
- Remove background: Clear, recolour, blur or replace the background behind a person, a pet or a product, on your device.