Something to Try August 4, 2003

Patterns and Liquid Metal

These are examples to show you the very basic output of the Liquid Metal Plug-in. By using the various sliders, you can change the appearance of what you put down using either the round brush or the paint brush. The metal is useful for trims on clothing, buttons, or whatever you think they might add to. Also, the bottom slider, Refraction, when reduced to a very low number will give the metal a look of glass transparency. Put some down and try the sliders.

One more thing, each time you like what you have, you should close the plug-in and then to add more, create another plug-in metal layer. When you are through, choose commit so that the floater becomes as a regular layer. You can then apply a mask, send to PS, whatever you would ordinarily do with a layer.