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carlc38435057
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March 9, 2021
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Crop after Liquify Smart object

  • March 9, 2021
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I digitally add prints to white garments, and I regularly have to do extensive liquify operations that are applied to a smart object(linked object) containing a print file. This works great. BUT, when i crop afterwords it ruins all my hard work. I NEED the functionality to crop post liquify without ruining my images. Please please please help.  I regularly update hundreds of images to new prints, and convertting the already liquified layers into new smart objects is simply not an option. Any help would be most appreciaited. 

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    Correct answer carlc38435057

    Hi! I figured out a somewhat quick work around. Convert the Liquified smart object to yet another smart object. Crop (do not rotate), then right click on the new smart object and "Convert to Layers". Back to normal!

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    marco_d
    Participating Frequently
    June 30, 2023

    Unfortunately your workaround isnt working for me. It really is a shame they can't fix this obvious bug

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 1, 2023

    This is not a bug just because you want it to behave differently. 

     

    If you cannot get the Work-around to provide the intended result please provide the original file and the cropped file for testing. 

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    marco_d
    Participating Frequently
    July 1, 2023

    Respectfully I disagree.

    Every other smart filter respects crop changes, as far as I'm aware. Even smart filter masks. There's no reason liquify should be different. I can't see any situation where this would be the expected or desired behaviour.

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      brunopitiko
      Participant
      March 2, 2023

      2023 and the problem still happening...

        Bojan Živković11378569
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        Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
        Community Expert
        April 27, 2021

        I can not see your composition but... if your image on Smart Object covers entire canvas then you can use Canvas Size to "crop". Another way can be using layer mask to mask unwanted parts but that all depends on situation you have.

          c.pfaffenbichler
          Community Expert
          c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          March 10, 2021

          I see no option to achieve this; and you already seem to know it is impossible at current. 

           

          How intricate is the Liquifying? In some cases Puppet Warp migh provide an alternative. 

            carlc38435057
            carlc38435057Author
            Participant
            April 27, 2021

            Fairly intricate liquifying. I've seen several other threads with people suffering from the same issue. I'm hoping adobe will fix this in an update as its quite time consuming to work around. 

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