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Step Ten: With the motherboard layer active, choose
Filter>Distort>Displace. In the resulting dialog, leave the factory
settings as is and click OK. If you’re not sure whether the
default settings have been changed in the Displace dialog,
press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key to change the Cancel
button into a Reset button; click it and you’re back to the
defaults. In the next dialog that opens, navigate to the Map
document you saved in Step Four and click Open. If you watch
your document closely when you click Open, you’ll see the
motherboard shift to the contours of the back.
Step Eleven: Choose Select>Load Selection and, from the
resulting dialog’s Channel drop-down menu, choose the selection
you saved earlier (back, in this example) and click OK.
Step Ten
Step Twelve: With the motherboard layer active, click the
circle-within-a-square icon at the bottom of the Layers panel
(circled) to add a layer mask. Photoshop hides the motherboard
from everywhere except the selected area.
Step Twelve
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Step Thirteen: While the mask is active, you can hide the
motherboard from additional areas (the hair and towel). Press
B to activate the Brush tool (circled) and press the D key on
your keyboard to reset the color chips at the bottom of the
Toolbox (also circled) to the default values of black and white.
Press the X key to flip-flop them so black is on top. Mouse over
to the image and then brush across the hair and towel. If you
hide too much of the motherboard, press the X key to flip-flop
the color chips so white is on top and then brush back across
that area. (When you’re working with layer masks, using black
con-ceals and white reveals.)
Here’s the final result, complete with the Layers panel.
As you can see, the end result is well suited for an ad for back
pain due to excessive computing. Until next time, may the
creative force be with you all! ■
Step Thirteen
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Final Image