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.
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.