
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks144
Mapping a Texture to a Person
You may have heard this effect referred to as a Displacement Map technique because it uses Photoshop Elements’ Displace
filter to map a texture from one object onto another object. This has become particularly popular in the past couple of years,
and fortunately it’s quite easy to do, even though it looks as if you worked on the image for hours.
STEP ONE: Open the image that you
want to apply a texture to. (In this
example, we’re using a photograph of
a man, and we’re going to apply the
texture to his skin.)
STEP TWO: Make a duplicate of your
image by going under the Fi ...