
Liquid Metal
Make liquid metal so cool, you'll think it came from a Terminator movie.

Create a new document. Create a new alpha channel in the Channels Palette. Go
Filter>Render>Clouds. Then go
Filter>Render>Difference Clouds. Once you've done that,
apply a
Filter>Blur>Guassian Blur the channel, I used a radius of about 20. Than hit
Ctrl+L (Mac: Command+L) to
bring up the Layers menu and adjust the sliders to the center so that you get a good
solid shape like on the left

Create a selection from the channel by holding
Ctrl (Command) and clicking it in the Channels Palette. Go back to the Layers Palette and create new layer and fill the selection
with gray. I also added a drop shadow by right-clicking the layer and going to the Blending Options menu, but that's optional.

Go back to the channel and duplicate it. Create a selection from the channel.
Now,
Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur the channel, using a radius of 16. Then Gaussian Blur it again with
a radius of 8 and once again with a radius of 4. Then it
Ctrl+D (Command+D) to deselect your selection and
Gaussian Blur the channel with a radius of 2. You should have something like this.

Now for the final stage. Hit '
D' to reset your colors. Go
Filter>Sketch>Chrome. Play around with the settings, I used 10, and 10 for my settings.
Once applied you will have white marks all over your metal blobs, to finish
off the effect go
Filter>Fade Chrome (for PS 5.x users) or
Edit>Fade
Chrome (for 6+ users) and set the opacity to 40% in the upper right of the Layers Palette. Finished.
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