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June 2, 2025
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Ability To Reverse Liquified State From An Already Altered Image

  • June 2, 2025
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Currently, when we load a .msh file in Photoshop’s Liquify: It always treats the current image as the original, and the mesh warps it forward.

What I'm suggesting is to give us the choice to treat the current image as either the "original" or the "final" state when loading a .msh file.

That way:

If we treat the current image as the final (warped) state, Photoshop could reverse the mesh and reconstruct the original.

If we treat it as the original state (like it does now), it will apply the warp as usual.

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micz123Author
Participant
June 2, 2025

For extreme liquification, yes I agree that the original pixels missing will not be back and result will be warped... but for minor to medium level pixel edit, it still gives us an option to fully or partially reconstruct areas that we want to revert back. At least it would be an option for us to do it.

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 2, 2025

Liquify is a direct (destructive) pixel edit. Pixels are permanently changed.

 

You might be able to reverse the effect, but it would be double destruction. Better to make an action/script that promotes Liquify to a separate layer. That should be pretty straightforward.