Mask Options With The Liquify Filter; To Thaw Areas; Reconstructing Distortions - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

You can use the icons' pop-up menus in the Mask Options area of the Liquify dialog box to choose how the frozen,
or masked, areas of the preview image work.
Select the Freeze tool
Using the Freeze tool
a straight line between the current point and the previously clicked point.
Using a selection, mask, or transparency channel
from the pop-up menu of any the five options in the Mask Options area of the dialog box.
Freezing all thawed areas
Inverting thawed and frozen areas
Showing or hiding frozen areas
Changing the color of frozen areas
of the dialog box.

Mask options with the Liquify filter

When you have an existing selection or mask in an image, that information is retained when the Liquify dialog box
opens. You can choose one of the following mask options:
Shows the selection, mask, or transparency in the original image.
Replace Selection
Add To Selection Shows the mask in the original image, so that you can add to the selection using the Freeze
tool. Adds selected pixels in channel to the current frozen area.
Subtract From Selection
Intersect With Selection
Invert Selection Uses selected pixels to invert the current frozen area.

To thaw areas

Do any of the following:
Select the Thaw tool
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and the previously clicked point.
• To thaw all frozen areas, click the None button in the Mask Options area of the dialog box.
To invert frozen and thawed areas, click Invert All in the Mask Options area of the dialog box. If you used a
•
selection, transparency, or alpha channel to define the frozen area, the alpha channel name in the Channel pop-up
menu changes to Custom.

Reconstructing distortions

After you distort the preview image, you can use a variety of controls and reconstruction modes to reverse changes
or redo the changes in new ways. Reconstructions can be applied two ways. You can apply a reconstruction to the
entire image, smoothing out the distortion in unfrozen areas, or you can use the reconstruction tool to reconstruct
specific areas. You can use the Freeze tool to prevent reconstruction of distorted areas.
and drag over the area you want to protect. Shift-click to freeze in
Choose Selection, Layer Mask, Transparency, or Quick Mask
Click the Mask All button in the Mask Options area of the dialog box.
Click Invert All in the Mask Options area of the dialog box.
Select or deselect Show Mask in the View Options area of the dialog box.
Choose a color from the Mask Color pop-up menu in the View Options area
Subtracts pixels in channel from the current frozen area.
Uses only pixels that are selected and currently frozen.
, and drag over the area. Shift-click to thaw in a straight line between the current point
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