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Chapter 7: Image retouching

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Targeted distortions using Liquify

With the recent introduction of the Puppet warp tool you may be wondering if we still need to use Liquify? After all, Puppet

Warp does allow you to work on an image layer directly rather than via a modal dialog. Although I am a fan of the Puppet Warp feature, I do still see a clear distinction between the types of jobs where it is most appropriate to use Puppet Warp and those where it is better to use Liquify. In the example shown here, the Liquify filter was still the best tool to use because you can use the paint-like controls to carefully manipulate the mesh that controls ...