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Bring the forces of nature to your images

An incredibly versatile and inspiring program to create resolution-independent materials and patterns.

Elemental provides a range of easy-to-use tools to generate an infinite variety of materials and patterns including fire, clouds, wood and water as well as stylish ethnic and retro patterns. The designs are generated to fit any resolution image without tiling.

The noise, blur and texture options increase both the control available on specific patterns and the overall versatility of the program.

Create your own photo frames, backgrounds or abstract art or simply be inspired by the intricate texture of colours.

Effects can be applied flat or applied to the luminance of the source image using the new Scale to Source option. This can generate unique and stylish effects as well as providing the texture-tattooing effects becoming so trendy in graphic design.

Surely an essential for any designer's armoury because of the infinite variety it provides for clients, and great fun for home users Elemental is also truly inspiring for any creative artist. Anyone who has ever sat cloudwatching or firegazing will find Elemental a mesmerizing inspiration.

How It Works

Elemental provides a wide range of presets in a series of different categories including Fire, Water, Wood, Sky, Fabric, Minerals etc. You can simply select these from the list and use them as they stand or you can use the various other options to customise them.

Colour

You can change the the colours and design new gradients. Using different colour gradients on the same pattern will often result in very different effects.

Material

The basic style of the material and the turbulence and randomness of the pattern generation can be customised to create an infinite variety of designs.

Area

Different areas of a pattern will have a different look and feel. Zoom in on a particular part and the result will change again. Thus Elemental lets you move, rotate, stretch, zoom and compress the area of the pattern to get just the effect you want.

Other Effects

You can now add blur, noise or a texture tile to the design as well for added sophistication.

Note: If you use a tiled texture the seamlessness of the resulting effect will then depend on the seamlessness of the texture tile used.

Presets

Any material you design can be saved to a preset category of your own for later use. You can even share these files with others via this website.

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