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using the liquify tool

The liquify tool in Photoshop produces fairly natural results. This tool is especially effective for creating distorted or exaggerated features to photographs for a realistic feel.

Open the image you want to apply the liquify tool to.

Go to Image > Liquify:

Use the bloat tool to increase the size of elements:

In this example the seeds of the tomato have been bloated to exaggerate their size:

Experiment with other images, this effect can be especially effective for creating cartoon like features on photographs of people.

The other tools inside the liquify tool produce equally good effects:

	Allows you to expand areas of an image.		Allows you to shrink areas of an image.
	Allows you to twist pixels in a clockwise direction.		Allows you to twist pixels in a counter clockwise direction.