Displacement Mapping

Had a lot of fun with this one and came up with one and came up wth some interesting results based on textures mapped around a portrait of my face,

Being a fan of Abstract, Surreal, and any chance to manipulate a figure even if its me gave me great joy

This texture will be mapped on a portrait of my face

First selected  channel with the best contrast

which in Skin tones always happens to be Blue

Then we duplicate the channel

This bring up duplicate channel Dialog box and selected new for document option

apply the Median filter to displacement map image

apply the Gaussian blur filter

 

 Convert image to Grayscale and save as a psd file

Then selected face on photo

Saved the selection

to select and save selection

when selecting after drawing around the face with selected tool

to select the eyes hold own alt o option in windows and selection automatically jumps to negative so eyes can be cut out

Saved the selection

which allows easily loading

now we copied the texture photo over original image

opened the photo using as texture

made sure texture layer was selected by clicking inside document window

then duplicated layer, named copied layer texture

loaded the selection

from the selection we saved earlier added a layer mask

changed the blend mode to Overlay

then selected the texture layer unlinked the layer from layer mask

applied displacement filter

selected displacement map portrait we created earlier

 and here are some iv had fun with that have been created ealier

 

 

 

 

Because of my attraction to photo manipulation this method will prove handy in my methods and hope to develop my own style, I find this the most reward as I've always just loved to doodle with graphics

 here playing with more specific areas

Brick Lips, I was surprised how weird this made me look , but I swear, I not wearing Lippy nor am I a Cross dresser lol