Smudge & Liquify Tool Properties

This tool smudges the wet and dry parts of the painting or pushes, pulls, twirls, pinches or expands any area of an image.

Activate the Smudge & Liquify tool by clicking the button in the Tools panel or by tapping the S shortcut.

Size - Select the size of the smudge or liquify tool (1-100).

Opacity - Set the opacity of the smudge or liquify tool (1-100).

Pressure - Determines the pressure applied to the brush (1-100). This slider is provided for those using a mouse or a stylus that is not pressure-sensitive.

Smudge - A classic smudge tool which familiar from older Rebelle versions.

Liquify Push - This tool pushes pixels based on the movement of your brush stroke.

Liquify Expand - This tool pulls the pixels beneath the brush in an outward motion.

Liquify Pinch - This tool pulls the pixels beneath the brush in an inward motion.

Liquify Push Left - When using this tool, pulling the brush up will move pixels to the left. Pulling the brush down will move pixels to the right. Pulling left will move pixels down, and pulling right will move pixels up. 

Liquify Twirl - This tool twirls pixels based on the movement of your brush stroke. Use the Alt shortcut to reverse the rotation.

Liquify Smooth - This tool smoothes the pixels beneath the brush.

Liquify Reconstruct - This tool is essentially a paint-on eraser. You can easily return pixels to their original state by brushing the Reconstruct tool over modified areas of an image.

Bake Changes - Protect the changes made using the liquify tool from unwanted edits.

Note

Unlike in other software, Rebelle's Liquify tool is not a separate filter but is included as a tool in the workspace. This way you can work with the tool directly on the layer while seeing other content of your project.

Tip

Use Liquify with various default as well as user-made brushes to get extraordinary effects.

Note

Smudge & Liquify tool in Rebelle Pro uses fractal image processing, which is a similar technology we use in NanoPixel image resizing. This is a huge step forward in image quality compared to other liquify tools.

Video tutorial

Learn more about the Liquify tool in this video tutorial: Liquify Tool.