P: Pro Retouchers need better Liquify

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
April 6, 2011
46 replies
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Liquify needs an update to support:
1. Smart Objects
2. Command (control) F for redoes
3. Mesh speed-up

All of these issues are critical for high-emd professional retouchers who work with very (2 Gb plus are common) large layered files. Smart Object support would allow them to return to a move and refine. Command F repeat would allow them to apply the same move to multiple layers as needed, and finally the Save & Load mesh is painfully slow - so slow that many retouchers are forced back to CS4.

Liquify is used a LOT to make the beautiful more perfect - but it needs some attention to bring it up to speed with the power of Puppet Warp.

Thank you!

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therealCarrieBeene

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Yeah, I know what you mean, but at least there is that option. I saw a retoucher warping hair with the PW and thought that could be an interesting technique. You can put lots of pin points to hold the areas you don't want to move and then be pretty precise with the warp. It's certainly something to play with in any case 🙂

Edward Caruso Photography

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i feel i don't get consistently great results from PW so I'm not excited about starting to record an action before using it each time. but i guess that's a workaround at least.

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therealCarrieBeene

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You can save the puppet warp as an Action to repeat the warp. I haven;t tried that, but Katrin Eismann told me it can be done that way 🙂

Edward Caruso Photography

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yes this is why i avoid puppet warp. there is no way to save and load meshes. I think the dialogue is the only way to do this.

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therealCarrieBeene

Participating Frequently

Well yeah! I guess we'd all like it to have the Liquify tool right there in the tool palette. I think they will get there some day. The only problem with that is if you need to repeat the stroke on all of the masks associated with the pixel edits

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peter_w

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I'd love liquify to be integrated into the main interface as a new tool in the toolbar instead of being a huge clunky dialog box.

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Mahdian

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add "alt + right click + drag" for brush size change in liquify

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Well this request is as old as photoshop CS3 :)

I just wanted to bring it to the new forum.

Smart liquify filter. Really, it will be very useful for retouchers!