The August Tips and Tricks discussion

[Gare]

@Frank—

Masterful.

Masterfully done and presented. You've taken a modest Monthly Tutorial and turned it into High Art.

Five stars.

Okay, 4 point 9: The Displacement plug-in can be used for stuff other than flags.

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

The displacement filter can be also used to create some interesting effects. the first image is just done with the displacement, the second image has an undisplaced clone on top with it's edges selectively feathered (at least that's what I'm calling it) with the eraser tool

[Gare]

Interesting, Frances!

Here's a variation on the technique: use a pattern instead of a flag, illustration, or photo.

The attached displacement map can also be used as a bump map, and I made certain it's seamless tiling.



My Best,

Gary

[Big Frank]

You've taken a modest Monthly Tutorial and turned it into High Art.

none of your tutorials are anything less than professional and highly instructive - to call them modest is to do yourself a disservice

Okay, 4 point 9: The Displacement plug-in can be used for stuff other than flags.

agreed, there is always room for improvement, but a 4.9 from you is praise worth having

i've never worked with disp maps in a 2d environment, so this was a novel challenge for me
might do another one whilst i am motivated

[Gare]

@ Big Frank—

I think if you're working in a 3D environment and use just the right displacement map on a surface, and then render it, you can make an interesting seamless tile. So the displacement thing can be in both a 2D and 3D domain to get you where you want a design to go.

Here's a seamless tile I modified in ShaderMap Pro, displaced a plane, lit and rendered the plane, and now I'm trying to reconcile the edges to make it seamless. It's not done, but I'm digging the "white on white" with highlights texture.



I really, truly enjoy watching the inventiveness on these monthly threads. It, in turn, lends me ideas for future tutorials, so keep the chemistry up, folks!

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

That's an interesting texture!

The more I play with the displacement filter the more uses I find for it, I used it on a vector shape that I made as a quick scribble with the shape builder and the filter will distort the edges of the shape in all sorts of ways. I made a bitmap copy of my displaced shape with a true colour setting and ran that through the bitmap tracer and was back to a completely vector result. some fractal plasma transparency and some work with the eraser tool and I have a pretty good looking stain, useful for doing grunge work.

Here is a quick example of the stain applied to a photo

[Big Frank]

the original image


in army camouflage green


in army desert storm


edit - perhaps a little over-ambitious, far easier to do on simple shapes

[Scotty]

Hi,
The postings here are very inspiring...but alas when I try and download the 'displacement map plug in" from the link and from the website all I get is a '....Pixel .gif ' and my browser (firefox) just keeps tryin' to load page..even tried in ie ( explorer same result.
Jim

[Big Frank]

download here : http://www.imageskill.com/displaceme...tMap_Setup.exe

[wizard509]

Frances that is an interesting stain. Put on a road it could look like a hole. Or something no no bad dog did on the carpet.