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Even though I'm 'into' crazy
effects, for a long time I considered the liquify tool to be
pretty useless. Some times it just takes awhile for things to
sink in. After some work with the tool, I've revised that
opinion and now love to liquify.
Let's run through a quick, cool effect we can do
with the tool. Heck, I'll even work on an actual photo this
week, I love this so much.
Let's start with a lovely lass.
1) Duplicate the photo layer.
2) In Photoshop 7, the Liquify Command is found under the
filters menu. Photoshop 6 has it nested in the Edit Menu. Go
ahead and open up Liquify.
3) When you first open the Liquify dialogue box,
chances are it will take up the entire screen, which is a bugger
if you want to see all the layers and not simply the one you are
working on. That won't trouble us much for this tutorial, but
just for your sake we can grab the edges of the window and drag
them in, reducing the size to see the image behind it.
4) I love messing with the eyes, so let's start
there. Along the left-hand side, select the Bloat Tool.
5) Now on the right hand side, find the Tool
Options section and adjust the brush size. We want to go a bit
larger than the eye, but not so large that portions of the face
are distorted.
6) Now run the mouse over an eye and click. The
eye area will gradually expand. Be sure to keep the iris
centered… if you are slightly off the eye will become horribly
distorted. Adjust each eye evenly, and if you want to go larger
just increase the brush size and reapply until you are happy
with the size and symmetry. I'm also bloating the lower lip a
bit in this example, as caricatures tend to be experiments in
exaggeration.
7) Switch to the Pucker Tool (just above the
Bloat Tool) and tweak the rest of the face. We want to reduce
other areas (cheekbones, nose, etc) to make our bloated areas
more prominent.
After a bit of playing and coloring, we have a
cat lady in short order.
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