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Adobe Photoshop Help
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To define which areas can be edited:
Do any of the following in the Liquify dialog box:
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To use the freeze tool
to protect an area in the preview image from further editing,
select the tool and drag over the area. Shift-click to freeze in a straight line between the
current point and the previous point that you clicked or Shift-clicked.
The degree of freezing depends on the current brush pressure. If the frozen areas mask is
displayed, the tint of the mask indicates the degree of freezing. If the brush pressure is less
than 100%, you can fully freeze an area by dragging more than once. If you use other tools
to distort and reconstruct partially frozen areas, the effects are proportionate to the
degree of freezing. For example, if you drag the warp tool over an area that is 50% frozen
and continue dragging over an unfrozen area, the frozen area shows half the distortion
that occurs in the unfrozen area.
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To use an alpha channel to define a frozen area, choose the channel from the Channel
menu in the Freeze Area section of the dialog box.
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To thaw a frozen area, making it editable, select the thaw tool
, and drag over the
area. Shift-click to thaw in a straight line between the current point and the previous
point that you clicked or Shift-clicked. Brush pressure has the same effect on the thaw
tool as it has on the freeze tool.
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To thaw all frozen areas, click Thaw All in the Freeze Area section of the dialog box.
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To thaw all frozen areas and freeze the remaining areas, click Invert in the Freeze Area
section of the dialog box. If you used an alpha channel to define the frozen area, the
alpha channel name in the Channel menu changes to Custom.
To show or hide frozen areas:
Select or deselect Frozen Areas in the View Options section of the dialog box.
To change the color of frozen areas:
Choose a color from the Freeze Color pop-up menu in the View Options section of the
dialog box.
Reconstructing distortions
After you distort the preview image, you can use a variety of controls and reconstruction
modes to reverse changes or redo the changes in new ways. Reconstruction modes
include reverting to the original state, extending distortions in frozen areas into unfrozen
areas, and repeating distortions sampled from a starting point.
To restore a preview image to a previous state:
After distorting the preview image, do one of the following:
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To change one or more unfrozen areas back to their state when you opened the Liquify
dialog box, choose Revert from the Mode menu in the Reconstruction section of the
dialog box. Then select the reconstruct tool
, and hold down the mouse button or
drag over the areas. The restoration occurs more quickly at the brush center.
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To change all unfrozen areas back to their state when you opened the Liquify dialog
box, choose Revert from the Mode menu in the Reconstruction section of the dialog
box, and click Reconstruct.
