Use Liquify in Photoshop CS6
Edited by Freya, Amanda, Eng
You're watching VisiHow. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can liquify an image in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7. As you can see, I already have Photoshop CS6 open, and I've opened an existing document. Refer to our tutorial on opening a document in Photoshop CS6 for more information. In this demonstration today, we're going to edit David Bowie. As you can see, there's quite a good mixture of colors on here.
Steps
- 1Layers are listed on the right-hand side. If the document has more than one layer, click the appropriate layer to select it.Make sure the correct layer is selected.
- 2It can be found in the navigation bar that runs along the top of the program.Click "Filter".
- 3It will open up in a new window. At the moment, our brush size is huge. We're going to go to the right-hand side and edit the brush size.Click "Liquify...".
- 4Click on the dropdown menu to the right of "Brush Size".
- 5It goes all the way from 1 to 15,000. That's colossal; we don't need it that big. Let's try 300. We can type a number as well just by clicking and highlighting in the field. Sometimes we can adjust the "Brush Pressure" as well, depending on what has been selected.Adjust the brush size by clicking and dragging on the slider that appears.
- 6This is the forward warp tool. Now we can change the "Brush Pressure".Click the icon in the top left-hand corner.
- 7Click the dropdown menu next to "Brush Pressure".
- 8Alternatively, highlight the number in the field and type a new number.Click and drag the slider to adjust the pressure.
- 9It pulls the image through, almost like the finger in the icon is doing. It gives some really interesting effects. Play around with it and see what can be done.Click somewhere on the canvas, hold, and drag.
- 10It is the reconstruct tool. This is one to take note of.Click the icon in the left that is second from the top.
- 11The more we click, the more it puts the image back to where it should be. It can be useful if we drew too far. This helps us put the image back to how it was. If we click near his forehead, it starts to come back, and he doesn't look like an alien anymore. This helps us undo certain areas. Again, with this tool, we can change the brush size and pressure on the right-hand side, just as we did before.Begin clicking on the canvas.
- 12This is the pucker tool.Click the third icon from the top on the left.
- 13Note the crosshairs in the center of the tool. As we click, it shrinks the targeted part of the image down. It's a little bit creepy, in this case. If we hold the button down, it will shrink very far. For more control, we would recommend clicking.Hover over an area on the canvas and click.
- 14This is the bloat tool. It looks like a circle. This helps us make things bigger again.Click the next icon from the top on the left.
- 15If we're doing this to reconstruct after puckering, we would recommend using the reconstruct tool instead. Don't use the bloat tool to try to undo puckering. This tool makes everything seem as though it's being looked at through a fish-eye lens.Click on the canvas repeatedly to test the tool.
- 16It is third from the bottom, and it is the push left tool.Click the next icon on the left.
- 17We are dragging in a similar way as we did with our forward warp tool. This again can be quite interesting, although it's sometimes quite harsh. We could lessen the brush pressure to make it a little bit more subtle. It takes a few strokes if we're using less pressure to get the same effect. Play around with this.Click and hold and drag on the canvas.
- 18This is our hand tool.Click the icon that is second from the bottom in the left-hand toolbar.
- 19Zoom in by clicking the "+" beneath the image on the left.
- 20We are using the hand tool to navigate. Just click and pull on the screen in the direction that we want to go.Click, hold, and drag on the canvas with the hand tool.
- 21Alternatively, the last icon in the left-hand toolbar is a zoom tool.Click on the "-" in the bottom left corner to zoom back out.
- 22Now we can start from scratch, while keeping the window open.On the right-hand side, click "Restore All" if desired.
- 23We can also press "Cancel" to go out of Liquify and not save anything.Alternatively, click "OK" to save changes and add them to the image.
- 24If you have any questions or comments, pop them into the section below and we'll do our best to get back to you.This is a VisiHow video, and I've just shown you how you can liquify in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.
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