 Waving
Flag
Choose and download one of the following flags for this tutorial
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Preparing the Flag
1 Open image of flag
2 Go to Image/ canvas size and add 50 px on both width and height. Click ok
The Distortion Map
3 With your flag ready the next step is to create the bump, or displacement,
map. A bump map is an image that is used to displace pixels in different
directions.
4 By holding the key ALT, drag your mouse at the bottom left of Photoshop Where
you se doc.( document ) it will give you the size of your flag image. Remember
that size.
Create a new image by going to File/New .Make it the same dimension of your flag
image.
5 Select the Marquee tool and, after clicking on the Marquee Options tab, set
the Shape to Rectangular and the Style to Normal.
 6 Starting in the upper-left corner select about half of the image. Select the
Gradient tool and click the Gradient Tool Options then click the Edit button to
bring up the Gradient Editor dialog box.
7 Add 3 sliders near the middle by clicking underneath the gradient bar and set
them to white by clicking on them one by one and choosing white in the color
swatch. Once you've got the gradient set up, click OK.
 8 Click-and-drag the mouse from the left side to the right side of the selected
area by holding down the Shift key
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9 Choose Select, Inverse. Fill this side with the same gradient.
 10 Choose Image, Adjust, Invert to invert the gradient on the right side of the
image.
11 Select/ Deselect. Choose Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and set a fairly high
value. The value you choose will depend on the size of the bump map you've
created and its resolution. For this one, set the value to about 10.0 or higher.
12 Save the bump map as a PSD file and note the name and directory you saved it in.
The Flag:
1 Make the Flag image current by clicking on its title bar. Change to RGB by
clicking Image=> mode=> RGB.
 2 Choose Filter, Distort, Displace.
Set the Horizontal Scale to 0%
Set Vertical Scale to 10%.
You can ignore the Displacement Map settings, because the displacement you
created is the same size as the image, and set the Undefined Areas to Repeat
Edge Pixels.
When you click OK you'll be presented with a "Choose a displacement map" dialog
box. Choose the bump map file you saved above.
The Highlights and Shadows:
1 Make the bump map file current by clicking its title bar.
Choose Select, All and Edit, Copy.
 2 Make the Flag image current by clicking on its title bar. Select the Channels
tab and create a new channel by clicking on the small bent-cornered icon at the
bottom of the channels palette.
3 Choose Edit, Paste to paste the bump map into the channel.
4 Go back to the layers view by selecting the Layers tab. Make the flag layer
active by selecting it in the Layers palette. Choose Select, deselect.
5 Select the Magic Wand Tool and click anywhere outside of the flag. Choose
Select, Inverse to select only the flag
6 Choose Filter, Render, Lighting Effects. Enter the following in the Lighting
Effects dialog box:
Style: Default
 Light Type: Spotlight
Intensity: 35
Focus: 69
Gloss: 0
Material: 69
Exposure: 0
Ambience: 8
Texture Channel: #4
White is High: Checked
Height: 72
Set the light so that it comes in from the upper-left and gives you a good
highlights/shadow combination. Click OK.
7 Choose Select/ deselect
Save your image. That's it!
Now that you're familiar with the Displace filter. You can use similar
techniques to add highlights and shadows to any image.
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