Quadrastream

Water as liquid, steam, ice, and snow. For some reason, a seahorse or harp appears in the middle.

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• Quadrastream @ 1024x768, JPEG (100k)

Construction

Equipment used:

• Adobe Photoshop 7 (Macintosh)
• Wacom Intuos2 4x7

I let this wallpaper sit around for a month before I came up with a name for it. So I don't remember exactly how I made it. I'll guess, though.

Most of it is basic brushed metal (noise and motion blur) with varying brushed strokes and angles, all overlayed differently. The upper left (steam? water?) was probably once the same, but it looks like I ran it through the Liquify filter and then randomly scribbled on the tablet.

The seahorse/harp was made with Photoshop's randomly placed leaf brush and my tablet - pressure sensitivity in action!