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    Dreamsuite's liquid metal is THE bomb!
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    Author: * Laurels Curius - 6 Posts on this thread out of 2,713 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Feb 14, 2004 - 05:54

    Wait, isn't it illegal for me to yell that in a crowded internet room? lol I have Dreamsuite 1 and 2, but to tell you the truth, the only thing I actually like and use on a daily basis is the Liquid metal from v1. There is also a weird but nifty filter in the v1 package called 'Metal Mixer' but honestly I have yet to find a good use for it. It bevels as well as mixes, but not too heavy on the controls (not in a good way either) V1 has 3 different beveling filters in it, and honestly I like super blade pro to all of them, just more manageable. Plus, SuperBladePro has so many fans out there with presets available for you, and dreamsuite has well, pretty much nil.

    I also have and use on a daily basis (literally) KPT 3, 5 and 6. 6 is fantastic, it's skyeffects and scenebuilder are phenomenal, though I bought it for it's gel and goo filter. Both of which ended up not being quite as neat as I had hoped. Also Sank, on KPT v5, the filter shapeshifter is in my experience one of the best single filters on the entire market, really. There are loads of tutorials and downloadable presets for it, definitely worth getting the hang of I assure you. In fact, I use it in place of blade pro or eye candy for same effect most days, comes out better.

    In fact, here's an example of KPT's v6 sky effects, I just made this for the watery text tutorial Haps did, and was easy to upload and show you all a sample of it's ability. This image was made from a preset that came with the KPT disc, and took all of about 45 seconds tops. Talk about easy! And loads of stuff you can do with the resulting images.

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    Here's text I made with liquid metal, so easy, really worth it on it's own.

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