Next, create a new image. This should be the size of your screen, in my case 1280x800 (pixels).
After this, get out a paintbrush. Now, you should pick a mostly solid circular brush with a diameter of around 50 pixels. Then, draw some random squiggles, quite a lot, but not too many, similar to the screenshot below.
Next, prepare a radial blur with the settings below in Filters > Blur > Radial Blur(Blur: 50, Spin type, Good quality)
Next, apply this. You should end up with something like this:
Alright, it is starting to look like something interesting now! Next, go to Filters > Sketch > Chrome. Now, you can mess around with the settings depending on screen size etc, but for me i think Detail = 5 and Smoothness = 10 looks best (as below)
Click OK. Now you have your lovely liquidy metal background! Obviously, this can be adjusted in any way you like.
Here is my normal finished version:
Alternative Suggestion 1: Press Ctrl+U and adjust some hue settings with the Colourize box ticked. See mine below:
with these settings:
Alternative Idea 2: Start with a 320x480 canvas and make yourself an iPhone background! Here is a couple of mine I made earlier:
Sound off in the comments below. Feel free to use my backgrounds above :)
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