Let me show an alternate use for the plugin. See this picture, nice blurry ugly still-life shot w. my digital camera in a window in my house:

A photo of, uh, a bottle of something or other

Now lets isolate the spherical cap of this bottle. You can do this by using the "Crop" function as mentioned on page 1, or you can cut it out in a paint program as I did here.

Now map this in the Diffuse slot (NOT reflection!), and select a "Chrome Map", and inside that a Bitmap, and select out pic, just like we did on the last example. Also turn up "Self Illumination" a bit

Now slap in some 3D models in our scene:

Whoah, teapots and stuff, teapots and stuff.... :-D

Now finally, apply our material to the objects, which has a Chrome Map based on the spherical lid. Self-illumination is on, so there is no lighting happening at all. With a few tweaks for blurring the image to match the crappy photo, we end up with this:

Look ma, we duplicated the material perfectly! Magic!

Playing around with the "Self Illumination" option allows you let more or less of the CGI lighting affect the scene. Here are a few other examples of the same thing... just a scene w. some spherical-ish "real life" object in it, which was then used as a base for a chrome-map experiment:

As above but taken w. flash. Only the bottle-lid is real

The lid on the bottle is real, the rest created using it as the map

Same bottle-lid unscrewed, lying in a window (the one in the ceter is real)

A Pokémon transparent platic ball thingy in a window.... makes a nice teapot material :)

The kids LEGO-ish toys, using the rounded bit as a map to make virtual plastic....

Here you see an attempt at a patterned sphere. Works on spheres, but looks kinda freaky on other things.... could maybe be useful sometime....

Another example of a patterned ball.... not too useful, but fun