The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

46. HELPFUL TIPS FOR RETOUCHING

BEFORE WE LEAVE the world of Liquify, I want to give you a couple of tips that I think are absolutely important as you start moving and pushing pixels around.

When I’m pushing pixels around, I almost never use a solid brush and I don’t use the center of a brush. In Figure 46.1, notice that I’m using the very edge of my brush to push my cheek inward. I would probably use a smaller brush than this, but not too much smaller.

This brings me to my next point. In the Liquify tool, brush sizes used to be limited to about 1,400 pixels, which meant that you would work with Liquify in small segments. Now, the brush size for ...