Adobe Photoshop - liquify filter and fine art tips

Ever since the liqufiy filter was introduced (not quite a decade ago) I have been using it to make fine art rather than it's more popular use of retouching and modifying the pixels in a digital image.

How it works: there are several options but the one you'll use the most is the 'smudge finger'. Once selected, and a size chosen, you can then begin to 'push' the pixels around as if they were wet paint. Unlike real paint, the digital paint does not mix colors together until they turn into a yukky brown, but rather splits colors into different component colors based on the shades of the original.

With a little practice you can draw with your mouse or graphics tablet using the smudge finger in the liquify filter.

Below are some examples of how you can use the liquify filter as a fine art tool.