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Chinese Brush Painting

Author: FotoFects Author's URL: http://www.fotofects.com More by this author
Added:Jul 07, 2005 Rating:   Level: Experienced Software: Photoshop  

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Open the image for editing. Highly detailed photographs will work best.

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Save the image as (Shift+Ctrl+S) a Photoshop document  (*.PSD).

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Duplicate the current layer and change the blending mode of the new layer to Difference.

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With the top layer selected, use the Displace tool (Filter> Distort> Displace) to apply the following properties:

Horizontal Scale: For a 3 megapixel image, use 100. Lower or increase the scale according to your image size.
Vertical Scale: For a 3 megapixel image, use 100. Lower or increase the scale according to your image size.
Displacement Map: Stretch To Fit
Undefined Areas: Wrap Around
Displace File: Choose the file you've saved in step 2

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Chinese Brush Painting		Invert (Ctrl+I) the current layer. Rollover the image in this step to see the original image before this Photoshop technique was applied.