Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
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You can use the Liquify filter to warp
anything
in an image—not just text. Use it to alter
objects in photographs and drawings—for example, fix someone's nose, make your broth-
er look like E.T., give a scene a watery reflection, and so on.
To use the Liquify filter on text, you first need to simplify the Text layer by going to Layer-
→Simplify Layer (or, you can wait and click OK when the Liquify filter asks if you want to
simplify); just remember that you can't edit text once you simplify it. Next, call up the Liqui-
fy dialog box by going to Filter→Distort→Liquify or double-clicking the Liquify filter's
thumbnail in the Effects panel's Filters→Distort category. Either way, up pops yet another
large Elements dialog box. Like most of them, it's fairly straightforward once you learn your
way around it. In the upper-left corner is a little toolbox with some very special tools in it
(see
Figure 14-10
). Each tool has its own keyboard shortcut (listed here in parentheses after
the tool's name) that works only in this dialog box. Here they are, from top to bottom:
