Liquid Plastic Effect

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a liquidy plastic effect that looks pretty cool (see image below)

Step 1: Create a new 500x500 image. It doesn't matter what type of background you choose.

Step 2: Press D to set your foreground and background colors to their defaults.

Step 3: Go to Filter > Render > Clouds

Step 4: Go to Filter > Render > Difference clouds. Perform this action at least once more by pressing control+f.

Step 5: Go to Fiter > Liquify and keep everything as the default settings. You might, however, need to adjust the brush size. I set mine to about 60. Draw around anywhere on the image until you have a nice liquid effect like below. When you are done press OK.

Step 6: Next, press control+u to bring up the hue/saturation bar. Check colorize and set the Hue to 120 and the Saturation to 50 (you can use different colors, but I'm going to use green for this tutorial). Click OK

Step 7: Duplicate the layer (if it is a background layer, double-click its name and then press OK on the dialog pop-up). Then go Edit > Transfrom > Flip Horizontal. Now set the top layer's blending mode from normal to overlay.

Step 8: Make sure the top layer is selected, and then press control+E to merge the two layers together

Step 9: Now for the plastic effect. Go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap. Set Highlight Strength : 15, Detail : 9, and Smoothness: 7. Press OK. You now have a nice liquid plastic effect! You can also try using Filter > Liquify again to give it even more of a liquid look.