This is not the best way to slim a body, but it’s a nice way to showcase the feature. In my screenshot I’ve painted over the middle of her body and then used the smudge tool to push the pixels inward to make her thin without touching those pixels in the middle of her body. In Liquify I like to paint with Freeze Mask Tool which will allow us to “freeze” the pixels in a particular part of our image so as we liquify, we don’t push/pull that area. Note: To see every brush stroke and exactly how I massaged the weight off the sides of our model here, check out the full-length video at the top of this post. The key when using Liquify for an adjustment like this is that you don’t want to see a drastic change, the key is that it is lots of little subtle adjustments that make one big difference to the final image. I use the Bloat tool and click on the eyes a couple of times to pump them up a touch. The fix is either to convert the image to 8-bit (not always ideal,) or make your liquify adjustments, save them as a mesh and then load that mesh. Also, note that if you’re applying a Liquify adjustment to a 16-bit image you will see a bright box appear around the areas that you liquified. Go Filter>Liquify to open the big Liquify dialog box.

Open Liquify (16-bit image Liquify Brightness Glitch Correction) One of the biggest things I do with Liquify is use it to gently and subtly increase lip and eye size for the subject of my photo (depending on the type of photography I am doing.) Convert your layer to a smart object by right-clicking and choosing “Convert to Smart Object.” 2.

Liquify tool in photoshop online