Photoshop_User_June_2017

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Step Four: Click on the Red channel and press G to load the Gradient

tool. Click on the gradient preview thumbnail in the Options Bar and

choose the Foreground to Background preset (the first one), and then

choose the Linear Gradient icon in the Options Bar. Press D to set Black/

White as your Foreground/Background colors. Drag from the right edge

of the canvas to the left, which will fill the brushed marks with the gradi-

ent, but won’t affect the transparency.

Step Five: Repeat the gradient on the Green channel, but drag from the

lower right to the upper left.

Step Six: Click the RGB composite channel, and check out the colors.

Step Seven: Save this file, which is your map, next to your base image in

the Finder (PC: Windows Explorer). I like to use the same name as the base,

but with “_DMap” at the end, so Photo.psd becomes Photo_DMap.psd.

D-map Red channel

D-map Green channel D-map composite (RGB)