husband’s favorite features as well. For her portrait, we posed her with her
backside toward us, bringing her asset into the foreground and concealing
her tummy. We also kept her butt at a two-thirds view, a pose that is both
tasteful and slimming. Her arms were positioned to break up the line created
by her tummy and I chose the background color to blend the line as well. Fi-
nally, the Film Grain filter was applied in Photoshop to give the image tex-
ture. It also blurs the exposed portion of her tummy so you hardly notice it.
Let’s look at a second pose of Rachel (below). In this seated pose, con-
cealing the problematic stomach area is easy—just use a shapely thigh to
cover it. You’re not even aware of the problem, because you are looking at
something else. We used the same Film Grain filter to give the image an over-
In a seated pose, it’s easy to conceal the
tummy—a common problem area for many
women.