Photoshop Liquify Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so on this tutorial I am going to touch base on a filter that is called "Liquefy". Now Liquefy is a very artsy type filter but it also can really help out images in a huge way. You can make people, if somebody has really big eyes on the image, you can shrink down the eyes or if somebody has a really big head, you can shrink their head, whatever. But as you can see here Liquefy in the Filters menu and then the shortcut for that is "Shift Command X" as you can see or "Shift Control X" on PC. I am going to go ahead and use that shortcut and this is what comes up when you do liquefy, it brings out a whole other dialog box. Sometimes when your computer is not as fast as some computers this can take a very long time to load, so just take your time. Over here on the left hand side, there is whole bunch of different tools that you can use, "the reconstruct tool" is definitely something you are going to want to use because you do something in this and it does not always look great, there is the tool, "The Clockwise Tool" there is the " Pucker Tool" there is the "Blow up Tool", there is all sorts of stuff. I am going to do something on this image that you probably seen at like Hallmark or Wal-Mart when you see the little postcards with the doggies looking funny. Well what I am going to do here is click and hold and you will see what I am doing here once I am done. Obviously his eyeball is getting just a little bit bigger and if you move around while you are clicking, it will give the dog that effect that you have seen in a lot of those postcards. You can change your brush density just a little bit, you can change the brush size just a little bit, you know make it bigger. Over here you can change the pressure to one hundred percent or the rate just a little bit. All these things are going to have something to do with the way your look is going to come out, all sudden the look can look really, really fake or it can look really, really noisy. At the same time the image might actually have a good appeal to it because it is going to give you that look that no other photographer is getting. There is a photographer out there that has made a bunch of money using this tool, by doing those funny dog pictures kind of like what I am doing right now. But if you want go ahead and reconstruct what you did, you just click that tool right up here and all you have to do is go back and it automatically brings his eyeballs back to the original as you can see. So this is the basic "Liquefy Tool", there is all sorts of things you can do "pucker", where you actually make their eyeballs smaller if you like. So this is what is what I said if somebody's eyeballs are too big, you can make them smaller and can get an even cooler look and I can give them that pit bull eye look. Then I could get them like a really big nose or something, you know there are all sorts of things you can do to make your images look cool just take your time with it, make sure your image is a good quality image or this will bring a lot noise and a lot of weird minds but as you can see it is a very effective tool and it something that can actually help your photography out. Thanks for listening."