From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
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Softening the displacement map - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Softening the displacement map
- [Instructor] The problem we had when using this silk as a displacement map was that all the fine detail affected the rippling of the flag. Let's get rid of that detail. We'll duplicate this layer and let's apply a blur filter to it. We'll go to filter, blur, and choose Gaussian blur. As we increase the radius, we can see that getting more and more blurred. The goal here is to increase it to such an extent that all of the fine detail disappears and we're left with just the folds and wrinkles. If we push it too far, they'll disappear as well. So choose a point at which you can see the folds but you don't see any of that surface detail. And we'll apply it. Now we'll go back to our flag layer and turn it on. And it's still set to overlay mode so we can see those ripples through it. We'll now go to filter, distort, and displace, once again. And when we tell it to load the map from the layers beneath, it's now going to see, not the original silk, but the duplicated softened silk layer. So…
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