The August Tips and Tricks discussion

[Big Frank]

[stygg2003]

Hands up to you Frank!

Stygg

[Big Frank]

i'm enjoying these displacement map thingies

[Gare]

Well, Big Frank ostensibly demonstrated that the hand example can be done.

Here's another one, and I've discovered that they're harder to set up than I originally estimated!



My Best,

Gary

(P.S. Don't be reluctant to create your own patterns! But with Displacement, make the pattern elements small so the effect is more visible, more sweeping.)

[Big Frank]

i call this one "dissent"

[Gare]

Absolutely lovely, Frank.

Tell me: you didn't need to use the displacement filter at all to get the effect, did you?

It looks like well-judged, artistically-driven drawing of a slight displacement over the photo of the hand.

Good show,

Gary

[Big Frank]

thanks gary

when i saw the final result i thought the same thing, but i learned some good stuff along the way

edit: this was helpful to me although i didn't use photoshop if i have xara http://www.ehow.com/how_6386495_make...ement-map.html

[Gare]

I have to say that for the Photoshop crowd—which has always gravitated toward elitist and "Best of the Best", the short tutorial on creating a displacement map from the Red channel of an image is "slumming it"!

Gaussian blurring a channel to produce the "in-between" regions that make a displacement map more pronounced is not a "one size fits all" step. If you want to do this so your work stands a chance of winning an award (!), you need something like Nik's filters> Morning Blues, or ShaderMap Pro to not so much blur areas as add some smearing on top of the image detail.

It's the difference between frame 2 and 3 here:



That said, as long as you can get any sort of map to produce the effect, regardless of how crude, you can always manually trace over the results to clean it up with Xara.

My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

Bit behind everyone but I got there in the end

Stygg.

[Gare]

LOVELY work, stygg.

Aren't you proud of it?

There is no "time limit" or "recommended speed to accomplish this tutorial" sign hanging above you head, buddy!

You learned something you can take with you to other projects now, right?

A nice way to end the work week, I'd venture!

My Best,

Gary