Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this video we're going to talk about The Face-Aware Liquify in Photoshop.
Inside the Liquify plugin there is a new face-aware feature that automatically identifies individual
facial features and gives you the power to adjust those features this is an improved
and expanded version of the face-aware technology found in Photoshop Fix, a mobile application.
Let me show you how that works.
I'm going to go into the Filter Menu and I'm going to click on Liquify, and you already
maybe familiar with the Liquify feature, but this version includes a new feature.
Notice this icon here, that is the Face Tool, and what happens is that Photoshop detects
any faces found in your image.
You can disable it by clicking on any other tool, and you can re-enable it again by clicking
on this icon or pressing A on the keyboard.
Notice that as I hover over the image, I get these displays over the face.
So Photoshop knows that this is the face and we can make some adjustments.
And before we move forward, let's take a look at the right hand side of the panel.
First of all, notice that it looks a little bit different than older versions, but we
have this option here called Face Aware Liquify.
And we have some of the facial features here that we can adjust.
We can adjust them by either clicking and dragging on the handles here, so notice how
her eyes are getting bigger and smaller if I click and drag up.
I can also adjust her jaw, her lips—this is actually the bottom lip, or the upper lip.
I can actually give her a smile or not.
And I can make any type of adjustments just by clicking and dragging on these handles.
Also, I want you to notice that if I hover over an area and you get that four-sided arrow,
you can click and drag and move that facial feature, in this case, the eye.
We can do the same thing with the nose, and we can do the same thing with the mouth.
Now if you want to make more refined adjustments, come into these sliders here on the right,
and you can adjust each of these specific areas.
So if you want to adjust the eyes, you can just click and drag this slider to the left
or the right, and just make any adjustments that you need.
I'm not going to click and drag on all the sliders just because they're very self-explanatory,
so you can just come in and play around with them, but I just want you to see the power
of this filter.
Also, one thing I want to mention is that you can come in here and use any of the old
Liquify Tool.
For example, I'm going to click on the Warp Tool and I'm going to increase the size of
my brush by tapping on the right bracket key on my keyboard, and just make some distortions
to her face.
Now she looks like an alien.
Notice that even after making these adjustments, I can press A on the keyboard to go back into
the Face Aware Liquify Tool and I can continue making adjustments to her eyes, and the distortions
from the Warp Tool that not disrupt the Face Aware feature.
So, for now, I'm going to press Cancel and I'm going to open up another image.
It's this selfie here, and I'm going to do the same thing.
I'm going to go into Filter, Liquify, and notice what happens now.
Photoshop automatically detects the faces of everybody in this scene.
I can click on Select Face and we have the numbers one through five.
So the way Photoshop aligns them is from left to right.
So this is face 1, face 2, face 3, face 4, and face 5.
So, for example, we want to select this girl here in the middle, that is face number 4,
and we're going to adjust her forehead or make any other adjustments that we like.
Now, obviously, in these examples, I'm going a little extreme.
I'm clicking and dragging these sliders to the far end just so that the adjustments are
noticeable, but, obviously, when you're working on a portrait or a group shot like this, the
adjustments that you make are going to be very subtle, so keep that in mind, unless,
of course, you're trying to create a caricature or something like that.
I also want to point out that the Face Aware Feature does not work with profile shots and
with some semi-profile shots you may get some issues.
Also, if the face is tilted beyond 30 degrees, you will need to rotate the photo so that
you can apply this effect.
So, for example, this girl here in the center, if her head were tilted just a little bit
more to the right, the facial features will not be recognized.
Once you press OK, the changes are going to be made into your image.
Obviously, we're working on a regular layer.
We are working destructively.
Luckily for us, this feature also works with smart objects, where I can convert this into
a smart object, go into Filter, Liquify, and make any other adjustments that I like.
This time I'm adjusting face number one, which is this guy.
So any adjustments that I make, I can press OK, and they will be made non-destructively.
Also, I want you to notice one thing that happened here.
When I adjusted this person's face, the Liquify Tool created some transparent pixels.
So, if this was an adjustment that I actually wanted to make, I would have to come back
in here and either fill that in with Content Aware or maybe just crop it out.
Another thing that you can do with the Face Aware Liquify is apply that filter to video.
So I have a video here that we're going to use, but before we get started, I'm going
to open up the Timeline panel and I'm going to click on Create Video Timeline.
So we're going to place our video here, then I go into File, Place Link, and I have an
MP4, a video file here.
And this is just me talking and moving my head around, so you can see how this effect
is going to work.
It's a very short video, roughly 5 seconds, and applying this filter to a video works
just like applying it to images.
So now that we have the Liquify Face Video layer here—you'll see it here in the timeline—and
I'm actually going to delete the original layer, just so we only have one layer to worry
about and it's a little less confusing.
So, with this layer selected, I'm going to go into Filter, Liquify, and Photoshop immediately
is going to recognize the face in the video and we can make adjustments just as we did
with the images.
So I'm just going to make a few quick adjustments, something like that, and press OK.
I can then click on the play button, and it's going to be a little choppy just because the
video is not rendered, but as you can see, the effect was applied.
I'm going to click and drag on this to Zoom In into the video layer, and I'm just going
to scroll through the video, and you can see how those adjustments are applied.
I can come in here into the Layers panel and disable the effect.
So this is what it looks without it.
And I can just enable the effect again and you'll see how the effect is applied even
though I'm moving around and talking.
If you want to render out the video, just click on the fly out menu here and select
Render Video.
You can name it and then you can click on Select Folder to decide where to save it.
And then the full settings with H.264 should work and then click on Render.
Here's the before and after of the Face Aware Liquify Filter applied to the video.
And that's pretty much it.
Let me know what you think about this feature.
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