For me this filter was a big let down. I imagined beautiful antique looking letters in copper and silver, or objects in creamy gold and steel swirls but alas. It twern't meant to be. *L*

In a review of the Dreamsuite series 1 that is sadly now offline there was an image of metal mixer that looked rather good. I've since played with it endlessly and this is the absolute best I could come up with (and it took ALOT of tweaking to manage this)

The problem is not only are the adjustment levels weird and unfriendly, but the presets that come with it are downright HORRID. Looks like a machinist threw up. Nondescript presets like "Blend 1-8" and when you click on them turn out to be so unbelievably ugly you wonder what the programmers were thinking. Here is one that is fairly useless, but not quite as bad.. it's the very originally named "blend 3". joy. No adjustments were made except the "fill volume".

My biggest beef though is how you adjust this filter. It has the same main adjustments as the Liquid metal in reflection etc, but they are all heavy handed and hard to control. What's awful though is how you actually apply the metals. The defaults automatically apply the filter to a portion of the image surround with one metal, the inside with another. There is NO way to set the filter to apply one metal to say the bottom half, or drip down a bit only on the top edge. Instead it has three little paint brush controls. One is "splatter" which by the way did absolutely nothing. Another is "add metal" and the last is "remove metal". You have to zoom in on the image, click around for 20 minutes until you find how to adjust the brush size, then manually apply one filter at a time to where you want it. Takes forevor! sheesh. This filter is also 50 dollars on it's own by the way. What WERE they thinking? Here's "Blend 1" which considering it's the first listed preset is the last thing one wants to see but ends up being the first preset a user would view. Can this be any uglier?

All in all I'd say one big disappointment.