Reconstructing an Image in Photoshop

One of the most powerful capabilities of Liquify is the ability to fully or partially reconstruct your image, restoring some or all of it to its pre-Liquify state. This ability gives you a great deal of control over exactly how Photoshop transforms your image because you can backtrack any particular part of the transformation exactly as you want to. Here are some of your options:
- To cancel all the changes made on your image (say, you really, really messed up), click the Restore All button in the Reconstruct Options area. The image returns to its original state when you first opened the Liquify window and removes distortions in both frozen and unfrozen areas.
- To change only unfrozen areas of your image to their original states, select the Revert mode in the Reconstruct Options area of the dialog box, and then click the Reconstruct button. The frozen areas remain distorted, but everything else returns to normal. Use this option when you’re displeased with some sections but like the distortions in others. Freeze the stuff you like, and let Liquify cancel the changes elsewhere.
- To paint portions of your image back to normalcy, choose Revert mode in the Tool Options area, and then select the Reconstruct tool from the Liquify tools palette. You can use the Reconstruct tool to restore the areas that you paint. The image reverts more quickly at the center of the brush, so you have an extremely fine degree of control in how you revert your image. The mesh may help you see exactly what portions are being restored, too.
- You can also click the Reconstruct button to have Photoshop apply an overall reconstruction. Click the button and Photoshop reconstructs once. Click again to remove even more distortion. If you don’t necessarily want to reconstruct your image back to its original condition, but rather alter, extend, or clone your distortions, you can choose Reconstruct modes other than Revert. See the next section on the other Reconstruct modes.