Using the Liquify tools

The Liquify tools offer several ways to distort the image:

Warp

  pushes pixels forward as you drag.

Turbulence

  smoothly scrambles pixels. It is useful for creating fire, clouds, waves, and similar effects.

Twirl clockwise

  rotates pixels clockwise as you hold down the mouse button or drag.

Twirl counterclockwise

  rotates pixels counterclockwise as you hold down the mouse button or drag.

Pucker

moves pixels toward the center of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag.

Bloat

  moves pixels away from the center of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag.

Shift pixels

  moves pixels perpendicular to the stroke direction.

Reflection

  copies pixels to the brush area.

Clone

  copies the distortions from around a source location to the current mouse location. Select the source location by Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac OS) the source point.

Reconstruction

  reverses distortions or applies them in different ways.