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The liquefy filter is one of my favorite filters in Photoshop. I'm gonna go to the filter menu and I'm gonna choose liquefy from the menu and I'm working in a slightly larger recording size this time so I can move this gigantic dialog box and show you many of the options that you are going to use. Let's start off with the tools. The first tool of course is the zoom tool so we can zoom in on our subject. And once again we are gonna turn this guy into the Emperor from Star 00:00:25 ] Wars and we are going to use this first tool to help us out. This is tool is called the four word warped tool and it moves pixels in the direction in which you move your mouse. So I can make his nose a little bit bigger and I can also, if you look on this side, reduce the size of that brush to have a little bit more control. So I can push the pixels around and this is the tool that you probably use most often as you make your adjustments to the image and then you can come back in with some of the other tools to continue to work with it. So let me pull that chin down a little bit, right now he is looking at me holding my light saber and he's going to tell me to strike him down with my rage. And now I'm gonna go over here and show you the next tool which is called the reconstruct tool. This tool is helpful if you go too far. Let me show you something, I'll pull this and I'll just really mess it up and now I can use this tool to paint the details back and slowly go back to the original image and it's very, very helpful to have that tool available. Likewise on this side of the dialog you see we have some reconstruction options. We can click reconstruct to go backwards incrementally, we can restore all and these tools are very, very handy. Let's go back over here again. We have the twirl tool and the twirl tool will twirl pixels clockwise or counter clockwise depending on whether you're holding down the modifier key on the keyboard. And the modifier key in this case for a lot of these tools is either alt or option depending on your platform. So if I don't hold a key combination I click in his eye and look at that, I twirl it completely down into a clockwise position. Let me undo that and do a little tiny bit, Likewise if I hold down either alt or option and click over here it will go in a counter clockwise direction. Our next tool on our tour is this guy right here called the pucker tool and it's really handy if you want to pinch those lips in and make him look really you know like that Emperor, give him that little sneer, he's just evil, he's just a little evil man. And I can pinch those ears in and I can do all kinds of stuff with the wrinkles and the nose and I can make him look like he's really focused on us. He's focusing his anger. And now we have the bloat tool which works in the opposite fashion so we can bloat things out and you can go too far of course just undo a couple of times or pick a reconstruct which is your, your friend in this filter trust me. This tool is called the push left tool although I think they should just call it the push tool because it pushes left when you move your mouse up. It pushes right when you move your mouse down, so I think it's a little weird they named it that. So we can move the pixels up and we can move pixels to the right, simply based on the direction in which you move your mouse. The mirror tool will mirror pixels. I don't really like this tool too much because I don't ever get a good result with it so I'm going to reconstruct a couple times to go backwards and of course I can always paint it away. This tool is called our turbulence tool and it helps add a little bit of randomness and a little turbulence to our motions, gives us a little jitter in the uh painting. And what we can do next is use this tool and the tool under it this are our masking tools, this is the freeze mask and we can paint a mask around the areas that we want to protect, like for example I might want to just paint the eyes and not affect the hair or the rest of the face or the nose and then I can grab a tool and I can you know do whatever I want in there and not affect the rest of the image. If I want to add some more area that I can paint in or affect then I can use the thaw tool to thaw out that mask. So let me go ahead and thaw this whole face out. And we also have our move tool, of course we can move things around. You can achieve the same result using the space bar. So once again the liquefy filter has a lot of options as far as moving pixels around in your images. We also have the ability to save meshes to load meshes to save meshes and to change our brush size, the density, the pressure, the rate and the turbulence. And we also have our reconstruct options so these are the most important tools in this filter and pretty much all you really need to achieve a great result is keep in mind that you work incrementally. Work very, very small at first and get some little details going and then use you know the broad strokes to really get the uh feel of the image. So if you really want to get those eyebrows down just make a gigantic sweeping move like this and then come in later on with a smaller brush and you know really enhance the details, it's a great filter and I definitely suggest that you try to use it. It can really change the look and feel of your images, so here is a sneer and I'll go to undo liquefy and there's a nice friendly guy and this is the guy whose gonna put the uh mask on and tell us one day to rise, to assume our place at his side.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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