Design Software & Strategy

A game to help you master the pen tool

How do you wrap a texture, pattern, or logo around an object? The answer is called a displacement map! Displacement maps are a special kind of distorting effect you use to change the way an image maps to geometry. It uses grayscale values to determine how close (or far away) a part of the distorted image should be. You're going to see some familiar key concepts in this advanced tutorial, including layer masks. You can find tons of different displacement map tutorials here.

A project-based primer on graphic design, Western graphic design history, and the Adobe Creative Suite, and the basis of this class. Recommended for students who are new to Adobe, graphic design principles, & design history, or who learn best through reading and following tutorials.