Liquify

About the Liquify filter

This filter can be applied as a destructive or non-destructive, live filter from the Filters panel's Distortion category. For the latter, enable Add Live filters from the panel before applying it.

When a warp is applied to an image, the overlaid mesh will update to describe the warp on a grid. Furthermore, modifying the grid will update the warped image below.

When warping images using this filter, the active Persona will switch to the Liquify Persona and this Persona's Liquify tools will become available. These tools can be divided into three types:

• Direct—these affect the image by painting over image pixels. These include the Push Forward, Push Left, Twirl, Pinch, Punch, Turbulence, and Reconstruct Tools.
• Indirect—these affect the mesh. These include the Mesh Clone Liquify Tool.
• Masking—these apply or remove masked areas. These include the Freeze and Thaw Liquify tools.

These Liquify tools are supported by a dedicated context toolbar for setting warp brush width, hardness, opacity, and more.

Warping can be further modified and controlled using the dedicated Liquify panel.

You can reset the warp you have applied at any time by selecting Reset Mesh from the Liquify panel.

Tapping Done will commit your warping and create a Liquify filter layer; to undo your changes before committing, scroll back the history steps in the Persona's History panel.

When applied non-destructively, this filter layer behaves like any other live filter layer in that it is has inherent masking properties, is non-destructive, and can be temporarily hidden or deleted from the Layers panel, and even moved up or down the layer stack for different results.