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L I Q U I F Y    Y O U R    I M A G E  ::

One of the most powerful additions to Photoshop is the Liquify tool. In essence, it turns images into Silly Putty. You can turn a beautiful swan of a girl into an ugly mutant at the click of a button. But it can also be a very serious tool. Precise image manipulations, which are otherwise very difficult to accomplish, are made simple with the new 6.0 version.

T U T O R I A L  ::

1. Open a new composition; open an image (faces work best); open image menu and select Liquify; or Shft+Ctrl+X.
2. A 10-button tool bar will appear on the left.
   
   
   • Warp bends the image in the direction of the brushstroke.
     
     

   • Twirl tools rotate part of the image clockwise or counterclockwise.
      
   • Pucker shrinks the image in the area.
      
   • Bloat expands the image.
      
   • Shift Pixels makes the image on the right side of your brushstroke smaller and the ones on the right side bigger. You can Alt- to reverse the angle.
      
   • Reflection turns the image area that you brushstroke into mirror images of the area perpendicular to your brushstroke.
      
   • Freeze tool locks areas you do not wish to alter on the image. An excellent deterrent for reeking havoc on a sensitive are of an image.
      
   • Reconstruct tool gradually reverses your distortions.

3. If you select 'Show Mesh' in the lower right panel, the image will be divided into a mesh of squares. You can then see how the tools manipulate the squares thus changing the image.
4. You can click on the 'Revert' button to return your image to its original form

C O N C L U S I O N  ::

The Liquify Tool can come in very handy when you need to alter photographs that you cannot retake. You can turn a smirk into a smile, or a sad face into a happy one. All is accomplished with subtlety and simplicity.