A photo of cathedral spires reflected in a convenience store window was used as
the basis for this
Liquib scene. The
Wipe Tool, set to several
different
Wipe Actions, was applied to shift picture colors in a variety of
ways. A few
Drops were placed in the corners and allowed to evolve
and spread for a short time. Then the
Relief Tool was dragged across
the central areas of the image, causing edges to appear emphasized and
textured. The
Twist Tool was used to distort the
Drops in some
places. Finally, the
Stylus Tool was drawn around the edges and
through
Drops, pulling picture pixels behind it. The
Liquib
Tools panel along the right edge of the screen contains buttons for
Tools,
Effects and other common functions. The currently active
Tool or
Effect is indicated with red, underlined text. In this
case the
Tools and
Effects selection boxes have been minimized to
provide more space. The

buttons
can be pressed to select a different
Tool or
Effect.
Tool/Effect Controls can optionally appear at the top of the screen to
allow convenient adjustment of common parameters (
Options screens are also
available for each
Tool and
Effect when further configuration is
needed).
Edit Tools along the bottom of the screen provide controls
for manipulating images and
Tiles. All of these control panels can be
toggled on/off. A
Popup Menu is also available to access all
Liquib options.
The screen size was set to 1024 by 768 while creating this example. However,
the size of the source image was actually 2048 by 1536 -- when loaded it was
scaled down so that it would display within the screen. Because of that, the
Upscale function could be used
to recreate this same scene at the scale of the original image, 2048 by 1536.
Also, because
Script Record was enabled while producing this picture,
Play could be used to replay the sequence of manipulation actions that were
applied, potentially using different source images! (It would also have been
possible with the
Append History to Recorded option to store the
Manipulation History as a
Recorded Sequence, even if
Record
had not been activated.) A
Recorded Sequence can be saved to a
Script file for later use. The action might also have been captured
to a
Video file or as a sequence of still images. And it still can
be! By just activating
Video Capture while the
Script is being
played back.