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October 3, 2013
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P: Add Liquify Tool

  • October 3, 2013
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Please, oh please, add a simple liquify or warp tool to the Q panel! Wedding photographers adore Lightroom, but round-tripping 1500 photos over to CC just to give errant armpits and dress straps a five-second cleanup is an enormous bog. Lightroom, I love you. This is all I ask to make my world complete. Please, we beg of you, let us move some pixels!

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    Kelsey_Atherton
    Participant
    November 17, 2020

    I am dying for there to be an added warp or liquify tool on Lightroom! I hate having to go into photoshop for two minutes to fix something with a destructive change that I could do without losing quality if lightroom had it in 2 seconds

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    July 11, 2020

    You should make your request directly to Adobe, not to us other Lightroom Classic users in this forum. There is a link on the main page of this forum that says "Submit product feedback", that's where your request should go.

    Earth Oliver
    Earth Oliver
    Legend
    June 11, 2020
    Maybe if Adobe could figure out a way to integrate Smart Object with Lightroom, then this would be possible? If i can run Liquify on a raw SO in Ps, why not in LR/ACR?
    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
    Inspiring
    June 10, 2020

    A one tool does all would be nice.  But likely not practical.  Generally lightroom is designed to develop images, PS to manipulate images.  Adobe has to draw the line somewhere.  The compromize, is make the round trip editing as painless as possible.   In your example; do 90% all in lightroom and when needed do the edit in PS function to pop in to PS quckily to do manipulation.

     

    I can see them adding a few more things, but I am guessing they want to keep lightrrom as lean as possible so it does well, what it is designed for.   Just my opinion

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    RachelWood05
    Participant
    June 10, 2020

    Thanks Curt,

     

    I have been using LR for years as a sorting and basic exposure adjustment tool, however I have not done my main editing in that program for at least 6 years. So I just figured out now that you can send the file directly into PS from LR, which does make it a bit more seamless. However, I still run into the issue of the black and white's not matching between the RAWs that have not been into PS, and the tiffs that are sent back from PS. I have long thought that it would be nice if there was a program that could marry the best of LR and PS. Maybe some day technology will advance enough that we will see that happen. 

     

    Thanks for responding! 

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    IvanMladenov
    Known Participant
    June 10, 2020
    YES, PLEASE !!!!  Especialy when editing bunch of photos (wedding, etc.), it is absolutely insane to do it like: edit in photoshop - make a simply liquify or something - save it like .psd, and manually copy it - synchronize, add to existing catalog or directory...... I can't believe it is not included for years already!!! 
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 20, 2020
    You can export the liquify mesh (6-10 MB)
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 21, 2019
    I know that for many people this would be extremely useful!! 
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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    June 27, 2019
    Not likely. XMP has to store any edits and Liquify actually renders changes. I don't see it happening.
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    monstredeminuit
    Participating Frequently
    March 22, 2019

    I really really really wish there was a Liquify Tool inside LR Classic CC.  For the life of me, it simply doesn't make any sense that this extremely useful tool is not present in LR still after all these versions.  When batching hundreds of photos (Wedding Photographers have been asking this for years), it's insane to have to open so many photos inside PS only to do minor Liquify touch-ups. 

    I just don't understand why it's still not present in LR.

      dj_paige
      dj_paige
      Legend
      March 22, 2019

      Well, it's not in there because probably only very few people want it in there, wedding photographers being a small percent of the total LR user base (and probably not all wedding photographers need it). In all my years of reading this forum, I have never seen anyone express an interest in having liquefy in Lightroom.


      Also, please note that LR struggles with local adjustments on some hardware, I'm sure liquefy would be similar, or worse.

      Nevertheless, if you want to submit a feature request, you can do so at: Lightroom Classic CC | Photoshop Family Customer Community​ By the way, a search at that link turns up zero requests for liquify to be added to LR.

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Legend
        March 22, 2019

        Here's the existing feature request: Lightroom Classic: Add a simple liquify or warp tool | Photoshop Family Customer Community . Eleven people have voted for it in the past five years, making it one of the less popular requests.

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        FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
        Inspiring
        March 22, 2019
        +1

        PLEASE!
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