#rachelboyce

Lighten:

Import brushes and brush packs 

Create a brush tip from an image

Create a brush and set painting options

Standard brush tip options 

Changing Brush size:

Flip X & Y

Changing the angle of the brush:

Hardness 

Spacing

Image used for displacement map task:

Create new layer and desaturate colours in layer:

Adjust levels of desaturated layer to add more contrast and shadows.

Add text:

Right click on text layer and click ‘rasterize type’: 

Filter > Distort > Displace 

Copy the background layer and place it above the text layer then double click the layer:

(Colour of image changed to red for the purpose of this task)

Move the sliders to the left to blend the text into the image. 

Before soft proofing:

After soft proofing:

Original image:

Expand image using the crop tool:

Select the area that you want expanded: 

Click on ‘content-aware move tool’ 

Drag the selected area to where you want to expand the image (white area) 

Repeat to expand the sky 

The line created from using the content-aware move tool can be removed using the clone tool at a low opacity: