Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

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DISPLACEMENT MAP
You can create, place, or paste one image onto another
and blend the pasted image into the Background layer
by changing the blend mode. The layer blending modes
control how the colors in the top image combine with
the pixels in the underlying image. They do not affect
the texture of either image. To make the top layer blend
into the texture of the base image and make the final
image appear more realistic, you can use the Distort
filter and a special file called a displacement map.
A displacement map is a grayscale version of an
image saved as a Photoshop file. The Displace filter
then uses the displacement map essentially as an
applied texture. The black areas are the low points
and the light areas are the high points of the contours
of the original image.
You can copy one image onto another, such as a logo
design onto any background, and can make the logo
appear to be a part of the background image. You can
also add a design or text directly on another layer and
make the design blend into the folds of fabric, or
whatever texture is in the background image.
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Note: Photograph copyright
© Photospin.com.
1 Open the photo that will be the
background image.
2 Click Image.
3 Click Mode.
4 Click Grayscale to convert the
image to grayscale.
5 Click Discard in the warning box
that appears.
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The image is converted to
grayscale.
6 Press Ô+Shift+S (Ctrl+Shift+S).
The Save As dialog box appears.
7 Type Displace in the Save As
field.
8 Click the Format drop-down
menu and select Photoshop.
9 Click Save.
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