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distortion with spatter brushes. Alternatively, you could use the

Clone Stamp tool (S). Both of these are worth exploring, and

will probably feel more organic because they use familiar

techniques. Using D-maps gets you two advantages for cer-

tain situations, though: You can save the maps along with

many variations, which is great for consistency; and it’s a

seriously fun party trick that almost nobody has ever seen.

In the image on the previous page, I used D-maps after

isolating the model’s face to add some spatter texture, and

then ran the Smudge tool over those areas with a Bristle

Brush preset. Since that took away too much of the spatter

texture, I just repeated the displacement to get it back.

Remember that you’re not limited to these dispersion

effects. Knowing how Displace works in Photoshop, you

can fine-tune those standard fabric overlays with con-

fidence, build up a spiffy watermark, or create bizarre

surreal distortions using found textures. Here’s one last

experiment where I used Filter> Render> Clouds followed

by the Filter> Pixelate> Crystallize on each of the Red

and Green channels separately (Window>Channels). After

doing a File> Save As, I used this file as a D-map on the

original watercolor texture, and ended up with a swirly

delight. We’d love to see what you come up with in the

KelbyOne Community and on social media using

#KelbyOne and tagging us in the post! n

Original D-map

Result

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