Well, we could go on like this all day. If you want, you can click here, and another browser window will open, you can watch the blow-by-blow. You will have to wait a little for it to load.
Alrighty, you say. With no undo, what if I make a mistake? Good question.
If you hate the whole thing, click on the clear button. WARNING. This will clear all of what have drawn on the liquid metal floater. All of it.
If you just want to remove that last stroke, press the backspace key. Delete doesn't do it. Just backspace.
Other ways to edit
You can also select portions of the liquid metal and move it, or delete it. Use the arrow tool to click and select a portion of the liquid metal drawing.
This is a little confusing at first, as you don't get much feedback that anything has been selected, just a selection box. But, if you click and drag on the selected area, it moves. If you hit backspace, it is deleted. You do have to start the selection on the empty background to select.
However, if you use it on the liquid metal itself, you can drag "droplets" of metal around. You will also notice that if you select a big glob in the middle of a lot of metal, you don't exactly get a even selection, more like a big lumpy, squishy bit that you can push and pull around.
If you hold down the "alt" key (PC, or it's equivalent on the Mac) and use the brush tool, you can push the metal out of the way, or "dry it up," depending on how you view it. Note, however, that this leaves some sort of "residue" that you can't see, but nevertheless, makes it harder to draw back over. It is never as smooth drawing over a section that you have "dried up."
Here's another nifty characteristic. Heavy metal sinks, so you can draw behind existing strokes. Here, the wide, glossy background was done after the light texture on the surface. But, it is all on the same floater.
Other Cool Things to know.
Bored
with silvery chrome? Set the map: to clone source, and all the while
there is no clone source set, your liquid metal is controlled by the pattern!
Liquid Metal responds particularly well to Lighting Effects. The lighting effects applies to whatever layer you are currently on, and only that layer.
That
should be enough to fire your creative juices. Have fun!
