Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4

Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Olson in Photo Effects


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bomb funk Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4In this tutorial we are going to create a painted effect look by overlaying an image distorted with a Displacement Map.The Displace filter is one of several Photoshop filters that require the use of a displacement map, which works like a texture map, placing the image over a grid that creates a textured look.
The Displace filter shifts a selection using a color value from the displacement map—0 is the maximum negative shift, 255 the maximum positive shift, and a gray value of 128 produces no displacement. If a map has one channel, the image shifts along a diagonal defined by the horizontal and vertical scale ratios. If the map has more than one channel, the first channel controls the horizontal displacement, and the second channel controls the vertical displacement. So without loosing anymore time let’s have a look at the examples bellow.

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Press CTRL+N to open a new document.

2 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Type the name of document.

3 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Enter the desired Width, Height and Resolution.

4 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Click OK.

5 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the Move Tool (V) and move the flag and the brick wall to the new document.

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6 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the UK Flag Layer and change the blending mode to Hard Light.

7 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the Brick Layer and hit CTRL+J to duplicate the layer.

8 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Move the layer above the Flag layer and hit CTRL+SHIFT+U to desaturate it.

9 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4With the copied layer still selected go to Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur.

10 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4In the blur dialog box enter the amount of blur desired for this tutorial 1px will do just fine. (experiment to get the settings you like, tis layer will be used later on as a displacment map.)

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11 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select File Save As or hit SHIFT+CTRL+S to save the displacment man you just created.

12 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the Flag Layer and go to Filter-Distort-Displace.

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13 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4In the displacment dialog box enter the Horizontal and Vertical scale.(experiment with the settings to get tthe desired result) Click OK.

14 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the Displacment Map you saved erlier and click OK

15 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4When the Displacment Map filter is applied it has a dramatic effect, although the distortions look random, they line up precisely with the wall.

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16 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Select the Brick Layer and in the Blending options choose Hard Light. Combining the displaced flag with the duplicated Hard Light brick wall layer produces a more realistic effect.

17 Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Set the Opacity to 80% just to give the layer a more natural look. (Play with the settings to get the desired result).

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green Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4Here are some other example using the same technique.

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OK guys things to Remember: Displacement maps are images or patterns that are saved in the Photoshop format and applied as part of a mathematical formula that moves each pixel in the original image according to the values in the displacement map.

You can actually use any image saved in Photoshop format as a displacement map. Just choose it instead of one of the default files. Make sure you play with the Blur, Vertical and Horizontal scale of the Displacment Map also you don’t need to limit your Displacement Maps to existing photographs.

Try creating your own maps but remember to apply at least a small amount of Gaussian Blur first: otherwise the result will be harsh and unconvincing.

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11 Responses to “Create A Painted Effect Look With Displacement Maps In Photoshop CS4”

  1. mike

    03. May, 2009

    very well explained, keep up the good work.
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  2. mssmotorrd

    03. May, 2009

    It’s the first time I commented here and I must say you share us genuine, and quality information for bloggers! Good job.
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  3. Netlumination Design

    03. May, 2009

    Great tutorial. Useful stuff.
    I really like the numbering system you use for the tutorial… written and reinforced w/ corresponding image if useful.

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  5. Jon Bergan

    03. May, 2009

    A great little tut. I loved the example of the face with the flag. That was classic. Good work guys. Keep pumping out the awesome content. :)

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    05. May, 2009

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  7. ryan

    12. May, 2009

    hey, i couldnt figure out the painted flag on face, care to explain more ?

  8. activizon

    09. Jun, 2009

    can u please leave the flag displacement psd please

  9. Scott

    31. Jul, 2009

    Love this site. Used this to do some company graphics, everyone loved it. Thanks for the tutorial!

    Scott
    Streetwise Music Instruction

  10. aquila chris@yahoo.com

    22. Sep, 2009

    this is a goo

  11. bd

    10. Mar, 2010

    Cool tut. HOWEVER, it’s hard to learn the technique without providing the chance to do the work ourselves.

    PLEASE, WILL YOU START GIVING US DOWNLOADABLE IMAGE FILES?????

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