Acid-etched gold textures

This example demonstrates a rather fetching effect I discovered while playing with fractal patterns and gradients. First, use Tools:Patterns:Make Fractal Pattern to create a fractal pattern, any size will do but I suggest setting the sliders to
This should give you a new window with an image like this (I used a size of 128)

fractal image

Next, choose the Gold 3 gradient from the Colours floating window and apply it to the image by selecting Tools:Gradations:Express In Image, giving you something like

fractal in gold

Not bad, eh? To make it look as if acid had been eating away at the surface, use Effects:Surface Control:Apply Surface Texture, selecting

Click on the various light position radio buttons to see how they affect the preview, then press the OK button - voila! One acid-etched gold texture.

embossed texture

It's worth mentioning here that as it was created as a fractal pattern, you can tile it seamlessly.

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