This tutorial showed how to use the displace filter to create a realistic looking flag. First, I opened up an image of silk and made it black and white. The particular image I was using was really dark so I lightened it a lot. Then I used Gaussian blur at 2.5 pixels, and saved it as a .psd file. On the flag image, I used the displace filter with the default settings and clicked the silk .psd file. At first, the image looked really weird and squiggly. Then I placed the silk image over the flag layer and set the mode to hard light. The flag came out super bright and I played around with some other blend modes and nothing else really looked right so I used lowered the brightness. I have never used the displace filter before and I made another image without using it and you can really see the difference. Without using the displace filter, the lines of the flag are still straight so it doesn't look realistic, with the filter, the lines go along with the curves of the silk texture.
With displace filter:
Without displace filter:
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