Marble creates impressive marble textures for background images and lets you control the color, size, rock shape and vein structure. With the Wood filter, you can quickly generate realistic wood textures with options that let you control grain, rings, knots and color. Wood presets include realistic cedar, elm, oak, pine and others. You can add realistic 3D drops to any text or image with controls for thickness, taper, spacing, length and more. Melt distorts an image as you would expect-you control the ripple width and pooling.
Corona creates interesting astronomical effects, such as solar flares or clouds.
Gradient Blend is one of Eye Candy 4000's five new filters. The company has revised many of its filters to offer you more control over appearance than ever before. For example, the Chrome filter now lets you add TIFF images as reflection maps for realistic metal effects, such as gold, copper and silver. It also incorporates the Bevel Profile Editor, which can add elegant effects for text. Fire also offers more new controls, such as the Color Gradient Editor, Side Taper and Denser Flames sliders, as well as presets for more realistic looking fire effects.