Graphics Programs Reference
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ter, so there may be a fair amount of lag time before you see results, especially if your com-
puter is slow.
If you like what you see in the dialog box's preview, click OK and wait a few seconds while
Elements applies your transformations; then you're done. If you
don't
like what you see, you
can always have another go at it. Simply click the Liquify dialog box's Revert button to re-
turn your image to the condition it was in before you started using this filter.
The next time you use the Liquify filter, it remembers the tool settings you used last time.
You can Ctrl-click/
⌘
-click the Cancel button (it turns into a Default button) to return your
tools to the way they were the very first time you used the Liquify filter. You can also Alt-
click/Option-click the Cancel button to turn it into a Reset button. Doing so doesn't reset
your image, but rather tells Elements that you want to go back to whatever tool was active
when you started the Liquify filter this time. So for instance, if you opened the Liquify filter
with the Bloat tool and a 128-pixel brush, then switched to the Pucker tool with a 64-pixel
brush, clicking Reset takes you back to the Bloat tool, while clicking Default takes you to the
Warp tool (which is the tool that's active the first time anyone opens the Liquify filter).
Neither of these buttons changes anything you've done in your image.
Type Masks: Setting an Image in Text
So far in this chapter, you've learned how to create regular text and glam it up by applying
layer styles and effects. But you can also create text by filling letters with the contents of a
photo, as shown in
Figure 14-11
.
The Type Mask tools work by making a selection in the shape of your letters. Essentially,
they create a kind of stencil that you can then place on top of an image.
Once you've used these tools to create text-shaped selections, you can perform all sorts of
neat tricks: emboss the text into an image (so that it looks like it's been stamped there); apply
a stroke to the text's outline (useful if the font doesn't have a built-in outline option); or copy
the text and move it to another document entirely.
