Hi, guys and welcome to this tutorial brought to you by Adobe Nic Nacs and then this one, I wanted to talk a bit about composting images. We haven’t really done much of this before so I thought—let's regard it. What composting images—well what composting really is in graphics is combining more tool images together in an intrusting manner. So, this isn’t going to be the most complicated composite in the world but it's a good way for me to show you how the multiplayer blend mode works and how displacement filled this work. So let's get started.
Basically, what we’re going to do is you’re going to have a texture on some cardboard, which is here, and I’m just going to copy and paste this in to our document. So I’m going to have a picture some cardboard and we’re going to have some text which I will also grab from over here and just pour in that in form over here. And all we’re going to do is at the moment, the matter what we do it and let's just get some color first. I’m just going to lock the transparent pixels so that if I brush over it with let's say, black, it will only brush over the transparent. It won’t brush over the transparent pixels. So choose a gradient, I’ll choose this blue one, which I've got ahead and maybe a bit closer.
And if you want to make it look like this is actually painted on the cardboard, that doesn’t look anything like it. So we’re going to do two little things. The first thing that we’re going to do is change the blend mode from normal to multiply and multiply basically, has something to do with keeping the dark tones and getting it with the lighter ones. And it doesn’t have much in increase but let's keep it normal first and then we’ll do our displacing and then you can see the difference. So, what is a displacement filter?
Well, displacement filter is when you take a displacement map which is a black and white image and we’ve—if the dark parts or the lighter parts, I'm not quite sure how it works being—well, the maps will show where the bumps are and where the bumps are not, so, where is it extruded and where sort of going back inwards. And it's hard to explain but I really just have to shade the effects of that.
So first of all, what we wanted to do is go to image and duplicate. So we get a—we call this duplicate. So we get an exact duplicate of the original file and just go over this text layer and first of all, we want to desaturate it. So the hold Control and press U and then just try the saturation all the way down and press okay. Then we want to bring out some of the contrast, so these bumps will be a lot more visible. So hold Control and press O, either I want to crush in the black slider and then crush in the white slider and then press OK and then we can save this out, Control-Shift S.
Save it as something useful I’m going to save it as displacement. Save it as a Photoshop file, it would be best. Save, I have the right because it happened early on, press OK and there we are. So, if we go back to our original file, now what we can do, just unlock the transparent pixels, is we can go through filter, distort, displace and the horizontal and vertical scale, it just takes to open the trial and error but usually 10 works okay for me. stretch to fit, repeated pixel, press OK, you're going to need to find the file so, find your displacement filter, you press OK and now, it is actually confirming to—well it looks like confirming to this bumps but you can't see it. This is when changing to the blend mode multiply comes in it at an advantage.
And now, it actually kind of looks—turn the opacity down a bit, like it's confirming to the bumps. So that’s basically how you do it. Sometimes it works better than others. Just take it maybe down to 70. Okay and that looks a lot better than—well, what we did started with, where we’ve just stuck on. So that’s basically a little bit about compositing, a little about blend mode, well, the most part, blend mode at least and a bit about displacement filter and how they can all used together. I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial. If you done it already, I’m trying to get—pardon me, a hundred subscribers and before—well, in my first year of YouTube which is I joined on the 31st of August last year so I’d like to see if I can get 100 subscribers. In my first year should be the 31st of August 2009. So if you haven’t already and you quick cast of my videos, please subscribe, it's really worth it, trust me. But rather than that, thank you very much for watching. Please comment, rate and of course subscribe.
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