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Adobe Photoshop Help
Transforming and Retouching
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Use any of the following tools to distort the preview image:
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The warp tool
pushes pixels forward as you drag.
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The turbulence tool
smoothly scrambles pixels. It is useful for creating fire, clouds,
waves, and similar effects.
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The twirl clockwise tool
rotates pixels clockwise as you hold down the mouse button
or drag.
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The twirl counterclockwise tool
rotates pixels counterclockwise as you hold down
the mouse button or drag.
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The pucker tool
moves pixels toward the center of the brush area as you hold down
the mouse button or drag.
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The bloat tool
moves pixels away from the center of the brush area as you hold
down the mouse button or drag.
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The shift pixels tool
moves pixels perpendicular to the stroke direction. Drag to
move pixels to the left, and Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) to move pixels
to the right.
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The reflection tool
copies pixels to the brush area. Drag to reflect the area perpen-
dicular to the direction of the stroke (to the left of the stroke). Alt-drag (Windows) or
Option-drag (Mac OS) to reflect the area in the direction opposite to that of the stroke
(for example, the area above a downward stroke). Usually, Alt-dragging or Option-
dragging gives better results when you have frozen the area you want to reflect.
Use overlapping strokes to create an effect similar to a reflection in water.
Shift-click with the warp, shift pixels, and reflection tools to create the effect of
dragging in a straight line from the previous point you clicked.
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After distorting the preview image, you can use the reconstruct tool
or other
controls to fully or partially reverse the changes or to change the image in new ways.
(See
“Reconstructing distortions” on page 197
.)
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Do one of the following:
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Click OK to close the Liquify dialog box and apply the changes to the active layer.
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Click Cancel to close the Liquify dialog box without applying changes to the layer.
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Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click Reset to revert all distortions to
the preview image.
You can use the Edit > Fade command to create additional effects. (See
“Blending filter
effects (Photoshop)” on page 322
.)
Freezing and thawing areas
You can use tools or alpha channels to freeze areas of the preview image to protect them
from further changes, or to thaw the frozen areas.
Certain reconstruction modes change unfrozen areas in relation to the distortions in
frozen areas. (See
“Reconstructing distortions” on page 197
.) You can hide or show the
mask for frozen areas, change the mask color, and use a Brush Pressure option to create
partial freezes and thaws.
