Punching holes with liquify. Glitch or ?

[bm9246631]

hello. I just tried replicating a technique I used in an photoshop file created with an older version of ps (maybe 3 years old?) but I haven't been able to do it with the newest version. When I hold the bloat brush down in Liquify I was able to expand it so much that it broke a hole in the image showing whatever was behind it. An example is attatched. When I try to do it now it just expands without creating a hole. Does anyone know if this is some setting I can change or was I just enjoying a glitch. If  it was the latter, any idea how to recreate this effect again? Ty!

[Trevor.Dennis]

Lots of Photoshop's tools have changed and made more powerful with the advent of Ai and Adobe's Sensei, so I expect you are right, and that Liquify does not work the same as it used to.  However, from a quick try, it looks like what might have been transparent in the older version, now resolves to an area of solid colour, so it will be easy to select and mask that area out.  Especially with Photoshop's masking tools being so good now.