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Well Photoshop 6 has added a very cool filter called Liquify. But it's not even in the Filter menu. But before I show you how you use Liquify, when I use this type of filter, I always copy my source layer, so that I have an unedited version that I can refer back to. And perhaps create some custom transparency on my edited version using a layer mask. So with my copy selected, go to Image menu and choose Liquify. This is the Liquify interface. To the left on the far left side, we have different brush types and different types of distortion tools. You use Liquify by painting on different distortions to the image. The top brush is the Distort brush or Warp tool. Then we have the next two are counter-clockwise and clockwise Warp tools. This one is the pinch type of, or Pucker tool. And the one just below it is the opposite, the Bloat tool And then we have a tool that'll move pixels or the Shift Pixels tool. And then we have another one which will create a reflection effect. This tool will allow you to reconstruct areas that you have distorted, and we can also paint on or mask areas that we want to affect or not affect. So to show you how this first works, I'm going to choose the Freezing tool. And what this does is it just paints a mask over an area that we want to not affect. So I'm going to paint over the picture of Michael over here, but just the figure. So to the right of my interface we have different Tool Options: Brush Size, Brush Pressure. And the way pressure works of course is, the higher the pressure, the more intense the distortion effect. And if you have a stylus attached to your computer, you can enable the computer to take advantage of that by clicking here. Reconstruction allows us to reconstruct or revert all of our effects, or we can choose how to paint back reconstruction or reversion. Freeze Area: we can choose to invert our currently selected area that's frozen. So if you click Invert, you can see that Michael is now unprotected and the rest is protected. Thaw All will get rid of any frozen area that you have painted. And if you had a masked channel that you had already created, you could choose to load that as, and make that your area that was frozen. View Options allow us to see the frozen areas, show the image, and we can also see the mesh that the Liquify filter uses. So the way this works is it puts a mesh down on your image, and when you use some of these brushes, it distorts the mesh. So let me choose the Distort brush and begin to paint some effects. So you get the idea, and now if we look at the mesh, you can see how my mesh has been distorted here. I am going to change the mesh color, so we can see it better in conjunction. I'll try yellow. And that's a little bit better: we can see our mesh now. And we could also choose what color we want for our frozen areas, and how precise we want our mesh. I'll leave it at medium for now. This is the Twirl or Counter-clockwise tool. I'll click Thaw All so that we can actually edit the picture of Michael's head here, and you can create some very amusing effects by using these tools on people. As I mentioned, this is the Reconstruction tool. If you click on this and begin painting it'll paint back your original image. Of course, we can choose what areas we don't want to reconstruct by freezing an area. So we could freeze this area by painting with the Freeze tool And now when I go back to reconstruct, my reconstruction is isolated to the areas that [have] not been frozen. If you want to edit your freeze area of your mask, choose this tool, and it will allow you to etch away at your masks, called the Thaw tool. If you want to revert the entire image, click Revert. You can also do it in steps by clicking Reconstruct and stopping at any point. When using the reconstruction brush, there are several different types of modes you can choose from. But I prefer to use the Revert tool usually. So here is my liquefied picture of Michael. Click OK to apply these effects to your final image. Well that's kind of amusing. As I mentioned, what I like to do is of course create a layer mask for areas that I've affected, and this way I can paint back using black if there is no effect with white, I can paint back areas to their original image. So that's the Liquify tool. It's pretty cool and you can create some very interesting effects, and you can have a lot of fun with portraits.