Design Software & Strategy

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.