[Resslerd]

This tutorial is for Photoshop only. I may make these same lessons in GIMP if I install it later on.

Displacements are a concept that will definitely make you a much better GFXer. These are a very hard concept to understand at first. In Photoshop, you take a .psd file that has already been made and use it to distort your image. In this tutorial, you will make a sig that is NOT meant to be used, but the important thing is that you learn how to use clipping masks.

Save multiple times during your sig making ALWAYS, just in case Photoshop freezes.

We are going to continue off of our step eight of my previous tutorial.

Step One: Open up your .psd of the previous lesson.


Step Two: Make a new image that is 500 x 500.


Step Three: Make sure your foreground color is set to black and select your brush tool.


Step Four: Go to your brushes tab and put in these settings with any brush you want. (get original with this)




Step Five: Brush so about 50% of your image is brushed with varying shades of gray/black. (you can smudge here too)


Step Six: Make about four different images with different brushes (trust me, you will use them all eventually).

Step Seven: Save them all as .psd.

Step Eight: Go to your sig and make a new layer and go to Image > Apply Image and use default settings. (this makes the whole image that you see on one layer)


Step Eight: Now go to Filter > Distort > Displace. Use the default settings and navigate to your 500x500 images you just made.


Step Nine: Set the layer you just did to lighten (on the top of the layers button) or normal and erase the parts that look bad.


Step Ten: If you don't like it, delete the layer and start from step eight again.

Step Eleven: You may try this multiple times on top of eachother.


MAKE SURE YOU SAVE IT RIGHT NOW AS A .PSD

Look for number three, it will teach you how to continue on this sig even further.

YAY you are done with my second tutorial.
~Thank you.

You can PM me to request that I do a tutorial as well.

[dorkvader]

Very informative. Nice job.

[SinX]

Just a note: GIMP uses layers instead of saved files so you may just use some layers and apply the displace in your sig so theres no need to save

Good Displacement tut ^^

I would probably suggest that you just erase over focal/render and some parts since erasing over focal/render is really a must when doing displace ^^

Thnx for the displacement map ^^

Using finished sigs w/o vectors and text are also useful when doing displace ^^