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Ever need a photograph or type to look as if it's painted on a rough surface? Or how about your company logo on flexed arm as a tattoo? Maybe a page of text crinkled up on paper? Photoshop can do it. All you need is your image or text in one file, and another file that has some texture (Photoshop looks for lights and darks).
Start with your base image.
Here's some type. I made it the same dimensions and resolution as the fabric. This is vital. If the two images are "out of sync" your results will be wonky.
Go to >Filter>Distort>Displacement. I didn't rasterize the type first, so I got this error message. You can plan ahead and make a duplicate copy of your text, and rasterize the spare copy (you'll always find the spelling error AFTER it's too late to change it).
I left the horizontal and vertical scale at 10 pixels each, but changed the undefined area to "wrap around."
Hit Okay.
Then you'll be asked to choose the "displacement map" that Photoshop will reference in distorting the text. I browsed back to my fabric file.
Click on "Open" and Photoshop will do the job.
Here's a sample.
Now I want the fabric behind the text, so go back to that file.
Select All. Copy.
Go back to the text document and paste.
It comes in as a new layer--good for editing, colorizing, etc.
