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Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass

Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery

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Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to take this photograph from the Dreamstime Image Library and make it appear as if you're seeing it through ribbed glass. And I originally came up with this effect in order to mimic Madonna's MDNA album cover which looks something like this. And you can learn how I did the entire thing from beginning to end. In Deke's Techniques 396 through 403, which came out in the year 2015. Now the first step in the ribbed glass effect is to create this displacement map right here. And a displacement map is an image that distorts another image in one direction where the shadows are concerned and in another for the highlights. Now to make the perfect displacement map, it needs to match the size of the image that you want to displace. And the best way to do that frankly is to restore the legacy new dialog box, and you do that by pressing CTRL + K or Command + K on the Mac to bring up the Preferences dialog box, and then turn on this check box, "Use…

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