Liquify - Displacement
There are plenty of uses for the Liquify Tool. In this tutorial, I'll show how you can use a subtle approach to displace objects in order to situate them over the curves and contours of the wrinkles in a person's clothing.
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In this first example, I wanted to simply place the Aviary logo on the woman's shirt. I imported the logo into my document. Using the Transformation Tool, I resized the logo and dragged it into roughly the position I wanted it.
Realizing the girl was not directly facing forward to the camera, the logo didn't sit properly. So I selected the Distortion Tool and skewed the logo to fit on an angle by pulling the bounding corner boxes of the Distortion and dragging them until my logo was at the angle I desired.
I then applied the Multiply blend mode to this layer so that we could see the texture of the shirt through it. I noticed the logo was still too clean looking, as it sat over the wrinkles of the shirt unconvincingly. This is where the Liquify Tool came into play. With the Liquify Tools Pressure setting set at 2, I lightly dragged the tool along the wrinkles on my logo layer. This created the wavy effect over the logo as if it were rolling directly over the wrinkles as well. I then used the Eraser Tool to smooth out any edges that may have gone blurry during the liquifying process.
Next, I needed to apple lighting effects to the logo. I made a selection around the logo by taking the Magic Wand Tool and selecting within the Aviary letters. I then created a new layer, then applied the Gradient Tool across the selection from right to left. I applied the Screen blend mode to this layer and lowered the Alpha to 50% so that only the light portions of the gradient appear giving the lighting effect over the letters I wanted.
I created a new layer and painted over the sleeve and collar areas in the same blue as my original logo, then applied the Multiply blend mode to this layer. This added matching trim to the shirt making it look more interesting than the original plain white T-shirt.
And finally, I added a lighting effect over the entire image. I copied the original layer, and set it on top in the Layers Palette. I simply applied the Hard Light blend mode to this layer and lowered the Alpha to 25%, and my image was complete.
This technique can also be applied to fullscale images and apply them the same way, as I did with this painting of the Phoenix and Hummingbird.
Again, using the Distortion Tool, I roughly skewed the painting to the perspective of the original image.
I applied the Multiply blend mode to this layer. Then, using the Liquify Tool, I dragged the areas around the wrinkles again to make the image appear as if it was curving to the contours of the shirt.
Using the Eraser Tool, I erased the parts of the painting that were exposed past the shirt. Then, I did as I did in Step 6 and applied the original image copy over top of the painting layer and applied the Hard Light blend mode to give it the extra boost of lighting effect.
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