The basic manipulation tool is a brush, adjustable by size, density and pressure. The below portrait images demonstrate the most commonly-used features of the Liquify palette. Sophisticated, yet user-friendly, when used correctly it gives results indistinguishable in their authenticity from the originals…. As such, it’s a favoured tool for retouchers looking to tuck in the tummy or enlarge the pecs of those A-listers on billboards and magazine covers giving us all inferiority complexes. Liquify allows you to quickly and easily manipulate the pixels of an image and view the results in real time, stretching, shrinking and re-shaping with simple clicks and brushstrokes and negating the need for time-consuming selections. Like many powerful tools, it can be wielded for good or subverted for great evil, and whether or not the general image-consuming public are aware, a large proportion of the images we aspire to have been “liquified”. When producing professional, commercial work, one of the most useful weapons in a Photographer’s arsenal is the Liquify tool in Photoshop.
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