Liquid Glass
An image-processing tool that adds realistic refraction and specular-highlight effects to flat design elements, producing a "liquid glass" material look.
01The problem
Creating convincing glass or refractive material effects on design elements normally requires manual compositing work in an image editor — redone by hand for every asset. It's slow, hard to keep consistent, and doesn't scale across a set of elements.
02What we built
A tool that takes a flat PNG element and programmatically applies refraction distortion and specular highlight layers, simulating how light bends and reflects through glass — turning a flat graphic into a dimensional, glass-like asset automatically.
Produces a consistent, high-quality glass effect across any number of elements in a fraction of the time manual compositing would take.