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Step Five:
Zoom in tight on that area of her hair
(Liquify uses the same keyboard short-
cuts for zooming in/out that you normally
use in Photoshop—
Command-+
[plus
sign;
PC: Ctrl-+
] will zoom you in, and
Command--
[minus sign;
PC: Ctrl--
] will
zoom you back out). Shrink your brush
way down until it's the size of the little
dent you want to push out to match the
rest of her hair, and then do just that (try
not to make it too perfect). Also, some-
times you'll have to push out, and some-
times you may have to push in to make it
all fairly even.
TIP: You Can Have Insane
Brush Sizes
In Photoshop CS6, Adobe increased the
maximum brush size to 15,000 pixels, so
if you're working with images from huge
megapixel cameras, you're covered.
Step Six:
Now let's look at some of the hidden ad-
vanced features, so turn the Advanced
Mode checkbox back on, and those op-
tions appear on the right side of the dia-
log, and three extra tools are added to
the Toolbox. The main feature of this
Advanced Mode is the ability to freeze
part of the image you don't want to
move while you're moving areas right
around it. For example, if you needed to
make some really big adjustments to her
cheeks or head structure, you could freeze
her face, but leave the edges of her head
unfrozen (as shown here, where I painted
with the Freeze Mask tool [
F
; it's the sev-
enth one down in the Toolbox]). So, go
ahead and do that now. If you don't see
the red mask area, in the View Options
section, turn on the Show Mask checkbox,
as seen here. To erase any area you acci-
dentally painted over, switch to the Thaw
Mask tool (
D
; it's the next tool down).
