Liquify Tool is having no effect

[Guest]

Hi,

I have opened the liquify tool in CS6 for the first time. All other tools work however when I click on the liquify tool and it opens its separate window, clicking on the image has no effect and it literally remains unchanged, not a pixel moves out of place. One thing to note though is that when I do click and drag around the image, the "restore all" box becomes active which surely must indicate that CS6 is assuming a change has been made hence it will restore it to how it was before? Even though a change hasn't been made. I have attempted to change performance options of using/not using my graphics card. I have played around with the layers but still no effect. I have changed the brush size and also clicked on the advanced options and clicked "show backdrop" after which I played around with the mode but still no effect. All the changes I made to rectify the issue were from other forum posts (all of which remained unsolved) but still no effect.

If someone can help me with this it'd really be helpful as it's very frustrating to not be able to use it.

Thanks

[Simmer1]

Hi,

Can you provide a screenshot?

Thanks,

Sim

[Trevor.Dennis]

Check the brush 'pressure'.  If set to a low value, then it will show little effect. 

Very large images will also show less effect.  It might also be that you are waiting for Photoshop to catch up.  Later updates made Liquify much faster by coding it to use the GPU.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Hi Trevor,

So the brush is actually on 50 pressure and still no effect

[davescm]

What happens if you check "show mesh" - does the mesh distort at all?

Have you tried holding down the Alt key (Opt on Mac)  and clicking Reset (the Cancel button becomes reset if holding down Alt)

Dave

[Guest]

Hi Davescm,

The mesh doesn't distort the image at all

Thanks!

[Trevor.Dennis]

aqibk  wrote

Hi Trevor,

So the brush is actually on 50 pressure and still no effect

That should be working for you.

Are you using mouse or tablet, and if tablet, how hard are you pressing?

Which tool are you using in Liquify? I am using CC here, but I think they are similar

What brush size?

What image size?

Try another image no larger than 1000 pixels on the long side.

[Simmer1]

Hi,

I don't know the dimension of your image but if it is quite large and 300dpi or more then a 151 Brush size would be pretty small.

Try increasing considerably.

Thanks,

Sim

[Guest]

Hi Simmer1,

A larger brush doesn't work either, have used varying sizes and pressures.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

So for some reason... The whole thing has started working on it's own!

Thanks for all of your help guys, really appreciate it