Can somebody provide a good tutorial for doing displacement maps? I want to apply a texture or image to another image and have it wrap to the image as if it were meant to be part of.

Here are a few:
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/displace1.html
http://www.pegaweb.com/tutorials/displacement/index.htm
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/photoshop.html (scroll down to find tutorial)

If you do a search on Google, you'll come up with a lot of these.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/PSTV_links.html#D

Scroll down to the disp. map section.

Liqify or Goo are also good for more simple distortions.

Perhaps try 1/4 pixel dimension working files for speed, then scale up the displacement effect settings when you do the filtering on the full size image.


Regards,

Stephen Marsh.

Thanks Vikki and Stephen
I did Google "displacement maps" and wasn't happy with the findings. I posted here hoping to get a better tutorial. I really like the Russell Brown tut's. I watched one on water drops and he had me grinning through the whole thing. These are the type of tut's that I like. A hands on tut but usually to get these you have to buy a cd. Still, having to buy is fine as the info is sooo valuable. If not using a cd the tut's I like to use should at least have screen shots of the photoshop manu's and pallets. Russell Brown provides both.
Thanks again.

Colin

Hi Colin, thanks - don't overlook the Apple and Gurus Network links either. Most only go into single channel disp maps - the Apple one goes into using channel content from two channels for even more control.

Stephen Marsh.

Thanks Stephen. You can bet those will also be getting some of my attention. I don't throw too much away. Whenever links are posted I bookmark them right away.