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Introducing the Liquify command

Introducing the Liquify command - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Liquify command

Now we are going to transition from Puppet Warp, which was a new feature inside of a Photoshop CS5 to Liquify, another distortion function. And the Liquify command calls up an independent painting utility inside of the Photoshop. It's got its own toolbox. It's got its own set of options. It's got its own interface. So it really does work independently of the rest of program. The thing is instead of painting in foreground color or background color or those sorts of brushstrokes, you are painting in distortions. Now there is a few limitations associated with Liquify. You can't apply it nondestructively. It is a destructive filter through and through, meaning that it makes permanent modifications to the pixels inside of your image. You can't apply it to a Smart Object. You can't apply it as an adjustment layer. None of that stuff applies. You just have to go ahead and apply it to either flat image or an independent layer, what have you. The good news is that it is a lot of fun to use. So…

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