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Selectively transform an image with Liquify tools

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Selectively transform an image with Liquify tools

- Let's work with this image, we could essentially push the pixels around like they're wet paint. I'll start by grouping these into a new group, they're both selected, and press command G, and then duplicate, and merge this group. Let's name this Liquify. Now, this will make it easy to work with the copy. With the layer selected, it's now essentially a flattened image, and you'll notice we have a whole series of tools. These warp tools allow us to easily push things around. Warp lets you just push the pixels. Need a smaller brush there, and push that flower over a little bit, and essentially we can start to reshape details. You'll also notice other tools, Pinch will allow us to pull those details in, or go the opposite direction, pushing it out with Bump, and the ability to Twirl. You could also click on the Gear icon to change the direction if you want to go opposite. Now this does give you the ability to essentially free paint, and I can use this to mix up these colors in the…

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