This Photoshop tutorial is purely dedicated to all the intermediate users. This Adobe® Photoshop tutorial will teach you about the various techniques using the basic tools which are used to play with faces. Even though many designers go into crazy effects, for a long time they might have considered the liquefy tool to be pretty useless. Some times it just takes awhile for things to sink in. Let's run through a quick, cool effect we can do with the tool.
Open up a Photoshop image containing face.
Now, duplicate the photo layer. In Photoshop 7, the Liquefy Command is found under the filters menu. Photoshop 6 has it nested in the Edit Menu. Go ahead and open up Liquefy.
When you first open the Liquefy dialogue box, chances are it will take up the entire screen, which is a bugger if you want to see all the layers and not simply the one you are working on. Grab the edges of the window and drag them in, reducing the size to see the image behind it.
Now we will start the process of messing with the eyes, so let's start there. Along the left-hand side, select the Bloat Tool. Now on the right hand side, find the Tool Options section and adjust the brush size. We want to go a bit larger than the eye, but not so large that portions of the face are distorted.
Now run the mouse over an eye and click. The eye area will gradually expand. Be sure to keep the iris centered if you are slightly off the eye will become horribly distorted. Adjust each eye evenly, and if you want to go larger just increase the brush size and reapply until you are happy with the size and symmetry.
Switch to the Pucker Tool (just above the Bloat Tool) and tweak the rest of the face. We want to reduce other areas (cheekbones, nose, etc) to make our bloated areas more prominent. Thus we are now up with new face. You can play with it by coloring and segmenting.
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